Many of us have heard that
handling a baby bird or bird egg will cause the parent birds to
reject it.
Most birds have a very poor sense of smell, so they are unable
to notice human scent on baby birds (even a skunk’s spray doesn’t
seem to bother many types of birds). In most cases, even if the nest
is destroyed by wind or other means, you could create a new one and
put all the nestlings back in it and the parents wouldn’t care that
their baby birds were in a different nest when they come back; so
long as the new nest near where the old one was so they can find it.
Hoopoe
Ducks and Hoopoe will often poop on their own eggs with
particularly smelly discharge to discourage predators from eating
them.