Hello everyone,
I was just doing some training with Ducky and when I asked him to do the "wings" trick I noticed a gap in his primaries on one wing. Then I discovered a primary on the floor in front of his cage, and I already knew before that he had lost two other primaries in that same area. So there is a gap on one of his wings with three missing primaries, and I'm just worried why he's losing feathers from the same area on the same wing. I know that birds usually molt the same number of flight feathers on each wing to keep them balanced for flight, so I'm just a little concerned why he hasn't lost any primaries on the other wing. If I look closely at the wing with the missing feathers, I can see one new primary coming in. I am also wondering why he's losing primaries when he's not losing body feathers or tail feathers. I don't think he is going through a full molt right now, and Bluebell hasn't started her molt yet either. He can still fly fine as he is a good flyer, but I'm worried that if he loses another primary on that same wing he will be unbalanced and won't be able to fly well.