According to my records, the chances for baby birds to fall onto the floor in very slim.
If you found one on the floor then there must be some good reasons why they fall down.
The most obvious is due to hunger, says the parent have never come back home for more then two days, these bird will die so they must have committed suicide.
The next is probably due to the temperature that are just too hot to stay in the nest.
The other probability is due to a kind of attack by prediators such as snakes, rats, owl and etc. They wanted to escape and the only way out is to run out of the nest.
One of the most common is due to burgulary. These burgulars when they enter your birdhouse, they have no mercy to your baby birds. What they are there for is to harvest those white gold and they give no chance for those helpless baby birds to survive. These baby birds will be thrown on the floor and let to die. If you are lucky, you might have a chance to pick them up. Even so that is done there is no way these baby birds will survive.
Frankly if you find one on the birdhouse floor, the best advise is to quickly put them back into the nest (that also if the nest is still intact). It seem that birds have a very poor taste of smell and they will continue looking after their babies.
Should You Hand-raise a Baby Bird?
It is strongly advise you against doing this. If, however, you decide to try raising a baby bird yourself, be forewarned: rearing a young bird is an incredibly labor-intensive task.
Nestlings are ravenous eaters and must be fed every 15 to 20 minutes from sunrise to sunset. If the young bird is only a day or two old, it may be weeks before it can be released. And adults birds teach their young the skills they need for survival—where to look for food; how to avoid predators; how to communicate.
Humans simply aren't equipped to provide this essential guidance to young birds. Added to this is the problem of a very young bird imprinting on its human caretaker—becoming irreversibly socially-bonded to humans instead of to its own species. Such birds are unafraid of people, vulnerable, and often permanently dependent on humans for food—a bad situation.
All in all, despite the best efforts of human foster parents, most hand-raised birds die, often before they're even old enough to release. If at all possible, avoid rearing a bird yourself.
A Warning!
Besides being difficult, raising a wild bird in captivity is illegal unless you have the proper state and federal licenses. Call your local game warden or conservation officer for advice if you find a young bird that needs care. They should be able to put you in touch with a licensed wildlife rehabilitator who has been trained to care for sick, injured, and abandoned birds and other animals.
I hope this article give you the guide on how to handle your baby birds if they are found on the floor.....
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