(Posting it again since the previous post had some problems)
I have had a sparrow as a pet for nearly 4 years as of now. Let me explain why was it hard to release it:
Someday in 2017 after school, one student and I noticed a baby sparrow fell from a tree attached to the school building. We caught it after many tries. Why? because there is literally NO safe area, there are roads literally at all the edges of the school building with continuous traffic so the bird could not wait near the unsafe road for its parents to come back for it and it can't even fly high enough to get back to the tree. After a long time waiting, I decided to take it home and raise it. Thankfully, it grew up very healthy and playful and even gets attached to new a person a few minutes after it meets him/her.
Another problem arose after it grew up. I saw videos in YouTube on how they release a sparrow after raising it (they rest the sparrow in their hand outside the window and wait for it to fly away but they come back to the hand, but after a few days of trying, they eventually fly away, never coming back).
However, this method won't work for me since my apartment is on the ground floor and just iaround my building, there are WAY higher buildings and a few trees which can't be reached and completely out of view from my window. So, there was no way to release my bird easily.
As a result, this bird stayed with me for about 4 years now and my mom and I are very attached to it. Whenever it gets hurt(very minor and rare, not serious) my mom is the first to get teary eyed and then me. Even the thought of losing it makes my mom cry.
Now coming back to the present day, I need advice on what to do about the bird because I will most probably go back to my home country in a few weeks. Obviously we decided that we will take the bird with us, but I started worrying about what if they do not allow us to take the bird on a plane? Which is why I am starting to think is there any other way to release it easily and be sure it will be safe even though it stayed with us for 4 years? What if it sees a random human and jumps on it as I said earlier how quickly it befriends strangers.
My mom will obviously be very sad if we can't take it, but if there is no way to take it on a plane, then unfortunately I will have to think of setting it free in some way.
Thanks to all of you in advance.
(If needed, I could send the picture of the sparrow to you in dm since posts with links gets removed)
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