11/10/2026
☎️ We receive calls pretty much every single day for people that have lost their birds or people that have found birds. Sometimes the birds end up here, sometimes they do not, but we always take the information in case someone contacts us to try to connect the lost and the found.
More times than you would imagine people decide to just keep a bird that they found or give it away to a friend who says they will take it. Neither one of those situations is the right thing to do, of course.
This was the case with this beautiful young Cockatiel who arrived to the rescue a week ago Saturday, on Halloween. 🎃 Someone had found the bird and kept the bird for about five days. I don’t know if they had any experience with birds, but I think they soon realized that this bird was not well. So sad that the bird had to sit for five days without getting treatment 😭, because when the bird arrived here through a friend of theirs that they gave it to, the bird was very, very sick with a horrible upper respiratory infection. 😞
This poor bird looked like he was covered in glue from his head to his chest. It was mucus and snot that was just coming out of his nares and his mouth.
Shockingly enough, the bird was still eating and drinking, which is probably what saved his life. We immediately got him on medication, got him set up in the incubator with a nebulizer to start treating the infection.
I would say within about four days you could see a noticeable improvement & you could tell he was looking & feeling so much better. 😊
We continued all the meds and treatments and we have two more days left of the antibiotics and then he should be clear.
This is the absolute sweetest little bird, never gave me an ounce of trouble giving meds, will climb right up on your arm and wants to just sit with you. 💛
He has started to whistle a little bit the last few days and is eating like a champ and starting to play with toys.
I’m so thankful that the person that found this poor little bird decided to give it to a friend who knew us and right away she broug the bird to us.🙏
The outcome for this poor little sick bird could have been very, very different and they just kept it.
We are thrilled that he’s doing so much better and will continue on to a new home when he is available.
Welcome to “Moon” 🌖