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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/sk8hinb on 2025-05-19 02:39:26+00:00.

I am not much of a naturalist/environment guy but my wife is. So much so that I’m considering changing my dietary tendencies to be plant based like she is and not be a heavily meat based person anymore. Anyways I mountain bike a lot, and today as I was going on a lap down towards a downhill section, I noticed a small bird in the middle of the way. It couldn’t fly, was just hopping a few cm at a time, and its tail was visibly damaged. Usually I would have just kept riding and let nature do its thing but a year ago we were out and she found a hummingbird on the ground and saved it - so I am trying to do the right thing here. I spoke with a guy that was passing me and he googled a vet I could take it to. I emptied out my fanny pack as much as I could and went to bring the bird to the bottom of the trail where my wife would meet me and we would take the bird to the emergency wildlife vet. I had about a 3 mile descent to do, and took it very slowly. Made it to the bottom where she was waiting and turns out birds are very fragile and even an emptied fanny pack with the zipper open suffocated it. So instead of the bird hopping to potential safety, I accidentally suffocated it in my bag and then took it out to show my animal loving wife who was then brought to tears. To cap it off we saw some roadkill on the side of the road which made her even more upset.

TL;DR birds are fragile, nature is cruel, don’t transport avian creatures in fanny packs.