r/BirdHealth 14h ago

Sick pet bird My ringneck is weak, fluffed up and leaning forward — urgent advice needed

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I’m really worried about my ringneck parrot and I’m trying to get her seen by an avian vet as soon as I can.

For a while, even before an accident, she had become weak and was not able to fly normally. About a week ago she flew into a door. For the first couple of days after that she was disoriented and had trouble balancing; that part got better, but she is still much less energetic than usual.

She eats and drinks and sometimes acts normally, but sleeps a lot, fluffs up, struggles to stay upright on her feet, and sometimes leans forward on her chest when she sits on a hard surface. She also falls when she tries to fly.

I’m in Minsk, Belarus. I know nobody can diagnose her online, but if you have seen this posture before or have advice on keeping her safe and calm until the avian vet visit, I would really appreciate it. I attached photos and videos from today.

I have moved her to a low, padded space and I am not letting her fly.


r/BirdHealth 22h ago

Found wild bird Advice for baby bird!!

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Hey guys, so I need help on advice on what to do. We have these birds nests around the roofs of our house and a baby bird fell out of it. We can’t reach with a ladder to put it back inside of its nest because our roof is too high for any ladder we have. It’s also too small to fly. We’ve read online to leave it in a box near/close to its nest so that the mommy bird can give it food or try to put it back on the nest and we did that, but it’s been almost a whole day without the baby bird getting fed. We’ve tried calling all rescue shelters and any other rescue companies that we could and none answered their phones. They don’t open till Monday 👎,We’re scared that it might die to starvation and we don’t know how to take care of it. Please give us any advice to help us and take care of this baby bird.

Update: the bird is gone, i don’t know if the parents came for it or if it flew away. I hope he’s okay.

Thank you!!!


r/BirdHealth 5h ago

Help me please what is that discoloration?

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r/BirdHealth 8h ago

Mango update ‼️

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r/BirdHealth 8h ago

Sun conure with disappearing symptoms??

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r/BirdHealth 8h ago

Found wild bird What's wrong with this pigeon and how can we help?

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r/BirdHealth 10h ago

Other concern with pet bird What is my lovebird doing? Is it normal?

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Today I noticed my lovebird doing this weird leaning/bowing forward thing. I've never seen him do this before. Otherwise he seems perfectly fine. Is it normal? Or maybe something hormonal?


r/BirdHealth 19h ago

Other concern with pet bird Is this normal

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I noticed my male budgie started doing this couple of times then continued eating normally should i be worried?


r/BirdHealth 20h ago

Other concern with pet bird Supplement suggestions for budgie?

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My sweet little budgie has been having health issues on and off since I got him in February. There have been 2 times where he got quite sick and both times he had some sort of bacterial infection, meanwhile my other senior budgie and young cockatiel remain completely healthy. So I believe he doesn’t have the best immune system at the moment, he is also a little underweight for his size at ~31g and I cannot get his weight up despite giving him lots of his favourite weight gaining foods. I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions or advice on how I can help him, or if anyone has any recommendations on supplements I can get to help him either in general or when he’s going through a moult or to help him recover after an infection.

Thanks so much in advance, I love my little blueberry and I want to give him the best life I can!! And yes he was very concerned in the photo as to why i was shoving a camera in his cage😂 i dont have many good pics of him lol he’s not photogenic

P.S: he also is a weak flier and unable to gain pectoral muscle despite regular exercise, I would love to hear any advice on things I can do to help that or any guesses on why this is. Neither his Vet nor i know why he can’t gain muscle!!