Federally protected bird’s nest holds up sale of Ford truck in Kansas

Key Takeaways

• A truck sold by a Kansas dealership cannot be taken from the lot by its new owner because a family of robins is living atop one of the vehicle’s tires.
• The relatively novel situation has gained widespread attention after the dealership in the Kansas community of Olathe wrote about it on its Facebook page – and it perhaps taught many that active robin nests are protected by federal law from the US.
• A few weeks earlier, employees at the Olathe Ford Lincoln dealership discovered a robin building a nest atop a tire of the truck in question.
• The bird laid four stunningly blue eggs over the next few days, the dealership wrote in a 14 May Facebook post.
• The eggs hatched more recently, and the robin is caring for the baby birds, the dealership said.