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What is an Emergency?
Here's a list (probably incomplete) of conditions considered emergencies in birds:
Take to a vet right away
- Persistent bleeding, including but not limited to: from a blood feather, feather follicle, vent, mouth or a wound
- Difficulty breathing (such as from exposure to Teflon fumes and blockage of the trachea)
- Fluffed or ruffled bird, either sitting on its perch or huddled on the bottom of its cage in a corner, poorly responsive to stimulus
- Egg binding (straining to pass an egg without success)
See a vet the same day
- Prolapsed tissue from vent (cloaca or oviduct)
- Not drinking for 24 hours
- Not eating for 48 hours
- Weakness such that the bird is unable to perch
- Burns
- Deep, penetrating wounds
- Cat bite or scratch, even if only suspected
- Fractured bones
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