Wildlife

Ok....So I hear this distress screeching and I get up an rush to the back yard, so does Raphael and he has to push his way past me and get out the door first (typical cat). I see Midnight up the back leaning to something. It's just gone dark, the cats had been fed, and there is this bird on the grass. Wrong time for a bird to be out. I immediately pull off my Tee Shirt and wrap it up and set it in a cat carrier for the night with Lorikeet food and fruit. It's leg is no good and I can't tell if his wings are ok. This morning I let him out inside and he can fly but he can't use that bad leg. That leg in the photo hanging to the side is his good leg. Sometimes he gets stuck on his back. I settle it down, feed it while I hold it up right. It goes to bite but when it bites the fruit or orange, it realised good food and started to eat. I was pruning it's neck feathers and lice started running onto my hand, so I took him outside and rang up WIRES. They rescue native birds. They said it's the 3rd one today in my area that they've had to rescue. I'm still waiting for them. My backup camera is dying. As you can see, it can't filter the light. I usually get a wash out of the image. But the camera works in movie mode. So the next post is a movie. UPDATE: I JUST DID SOME RESEARCH, FOUND A YOU TUBE VIDEO OF A GALAH WITH CLENCHED FEET FROM HEAVY METAL POISONING. IT LOOKS EXACTLY WHAT THIS LORIKEET HAS. "WIRES" said they had 3 calls today for the same bird sick in my area...so yes, poisoning sounds right...

I try to get it to eat the special lorikeet dry mix, so I dip it's beak in it, but it won't eat it. So then I put it on the orange and it likes the orange. After making this video I mixed the dry mix with water and it hardly came up for air, it absolutely loved it. I also examined it's legs again...pretty sure they are both deformed but he can control one claw, not the other. Since it ate the watered dry mix, it was familiar with it. So my guess is that it's been hand raised. Also it's not going crazy after 12hours with me when I handle it which a wild parrot would be doing. Update: I've just realised that cat carrier is galvanised wire which can also cause heavy metal poisoning...so I'm digging out a proper cage for it. Update: The wildlife rescue said it has likely been hit by a car or it has flown into a building. The lady said it's likely a trauma injury and I should have taken it to the vet straight away. They didn't tell me that on the phone when I rang about it. She said there is a chance it's only concussed and that's why it doesn't have full use of it's legs, and if the vet thinks it's concussed, they will try to save it, otherwise they will euthanise it.