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It depends on the type of bird, and also whether there is time to get something else to catch it with, which there wasn't. I needed to grab it before it flew away, and there was very little space to work in. I've been catching birds in various ways for 50 years, wild ones that have got into people's houses, my own budgies and cockatiels to clip their claws and beaks, my zebra finches when I used to breed and show them, injured birds for treatment. If I'd had the time I would have slipped a glove on, that's all that's needed for protection, but it was there, and all I could do was grab and hope for the best. The ideal way to hold a small bird is with its head between the first and second fingers, it limits movement, but I couldn't do that because of the angle I had to grab it from.