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After a Redwood City woman discovered three abandoned baby house finches inside an equestrian helmet on Sunday, she immediately called the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA, according to a news release from the organization.
The organization took action.
“The parents (of the baby house finches) had built the nest inside the helmet, and unfortunately the parents did not return to the nest for a number of days, leaving the birds orphaned,” said PHS/SPCA’s Communications Manager Buffy Martin Tarbox in a statement. “Our rescue staff brought the babies and their helmet nest to our Wildlife Care Center in Burlingame. We will care for the nestlings until they are old enough to survive on their own, and then they’ll be returned to the wild.”
Tarbox said that house finches are known to build nests in cavities, such as openings in buildings and “cup-shaped outdoor decorations.”
“But this is the first time we’ve seen a pair of breeding House Finches build a nest in a helmet,” said Tarbox. “Thankfully someone spotted the vulnerable parent-less baby birds and contacted us for help. There is no possible way the trio of nestlings could have survived on their own.”
The baby birds are approximately three weeks old, according to the news release.
House finches are native to the San Francisco Bay Area.
