I need to move a bird house

[violiavampyr]

I recently moved, but the bird house in my backyard is occupied. I don't want to disrupt them, but I think the managment company will just throw the house out and kill the birds.
How do I move them with as little disruption as possible?

[TheSHAD0W]

It'd be very difficult. You'd need to capture the adult birds and move them together with the nest. Birds have no sense of smell and will not be able to find their babies again, they recognize the nest by position. Actually, I'm not sure if it'd work at all, might not work for some species.

[Sapphire Silk]

You don't.

I would just leave it. Odds are the management company won't bother it. They'll be more focused on the condition of the house and the yard than a bird house.

[MoonCat]

Birds are also territorial. Even if you could move the parents and the babies to a new area, it might be the territory of another pair of the same species, and they would try to drive the interlopers out.

[Seshat]

If it's one of the native species of your ecosystem, contact a local wildlife rehab or wildlife rescue. They'll have the most accurate information - anything I could tell you would be a guess.

[lordlundar]

Talk to management and ask them to hold off until autumn when the birdhouse is abandoned. If there's no emergency then there's no reason to move it while it's occupied.