Baby bird
A new ability — small, fed by you, not yet ready to fly.
A baby bird in a dream is the dictionary's image of a new ability you are quietly raising. It needs feeding; it cannot yet defend itself; it will eventually leave you.
A baby bird that fell from a nest is the dictionary's image of something new in your life that has come to your attention before it was ready. The instinct is to protect it; the dream usually agrees with the instinct.
Where you often see it. A baby bird in a nest. A baby bird in your hand. The dream uses the baby bird for a new ability — small, fed by you, not yet ready to fly.
What it is not. A baby bird is not always fragility. The dictionary reads it as the dreamer's newly hatched capacity.
Related in the dictionary. Read baby-bird with bird, baby-animal, and any scene of a young flying-thing not yet flying.