Emergency. Window hit.

[Wolf]

Aside from my opinion that a bird should only have its wings clipped if there is a valid medical reason for it, I don't understand the logic to clipping the wings of a bird that is just learning to fly. It seems to me that one should not clip the wings so that the bird will have full use of its wings so as to make it easier for it to learn to fly properly instead of clipping them and making it harder for them to learn to control their flights especially in the areas of making turns and braking and learning to land. Just my point of view on this.

[Michael]

How old?

[Pajarita]

The bird is not a baby, it's a male ekkie either 2 years old or close to it.

[Michael]

Babies take it better. In fact they need to fly into a few things as babies so they would know not to when they are older.

[Wolf]

I agree, it would have been much better for the bird to have gone through this and learned to fly properly when it was young.

[Parrotkeeper02]

I think that when u get a new parrot should be clipped so it realises the new surroundings get use to it when let out of the cage for the first time and don't try to ecsape once I got a teil a few years back and when I put him in his cage he started panicking and flyer like mad crashing in the walls so I didn't know what to do so I put him in a medical box for a few hours caus he was bleeding on his wings so I put some cornflour on it he calmed down I put him in the cage and next morning he was on the bottom ad the cage dead with heaps of blood everywhere and most vets I have worked with say u should clip wings if it caged and not clip if it's aviary expect for budgies.

[Pajarita]

You don't really think much of their intelligence, do you? Let me ask you something, do you believe that if you adopt a child, you should tie his legs together until he gets used to his new home and parents? As to what avian vets say or don't say... well, personally, I listen to them and follow their instructions to the letter but only in the area of their expertise: physiology, pathology, diagnosis, prognosis, etc. Behavior and diet don't fall into any of the subjects they study so, although I consider their opinion on these matters, I don't take it as particularly well informed. And I don't know what happened to your tiel but I can assure you it was not the fact that he was not clipped that killed him. In my personal opinion, it was the cage that did it. If he had not been caged, he would not have beaten himself to death against the bars. he would have flown around until he got tired and then perched somewhere.