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I just recently purchased a pair of Green Backed Twinspots and they were doing very well. The male sings all the time but over the last few days ive noticed the female slowly losing her ability to perch. She gets on the perch and wobbles, but now she is unable to perch at all, so she stays in the bottom of the cage. She is also making this head bobbing movement in which she extends her neck (while faving foward) and she does this rapidly but not constantly. I feel im going to lose her but would like to try to save my precious bird! Please help

Justino222 Sally lovezebs debbie276 Babs cindy


I wish I could help, but I don't know anything about Twinspots and have never experienced this problem.

Maybe some of the more experienced people can help?

I still greatly appreciate the reply. It was nice of you. Currently, the female is in a hospital cage at 80 degrees. She has food and pedialyte. She can stand and even moves around flying. Just can figure out why she has little balance etc. thanks for tagging people.

Justino222

I wish I knew how to help. But these little friends can have symptoms that mean any number of things. Not being a vet, I can tell you if you dont know what it is, putting her under heat with Pedialyte is a good choice to make.

A video of how she is acting would be very helpful for those on here that know about more about symptoms to their illnesses.

I hope she pulls out of this.

Justino222

This doesn't sound good...

Try getting a hold of Rox , I do believe she has them as well. Maybe she could offer some thoughts on this problem.

So sorry you are having these problems.

She is deinking the pedialyte and eating millet. I video taped her for 30 minutes and watched it. Her dropping are normal as well. I will try and upload a video. Thanks everyone!

Unfortunately, I'm not too sure what the problem could be. The symptoms cover a variety of ailments and Green twinspots are known to be fragile.

I do know that these birds are sensitive to temp changes, so it's good that you have some heat for her. If it looks like she is improving and you want to move her back to her cage, I would suggest putting a heat lamp on one side of the flight so that she can access the heat if needed. Even a normal 40watt globe pointed directly over a perch will help and give her the option to go there. Hopefully she is just adjusting to the change of environment and pulls through

I hope she pulls through as well! I have a space heater in there (as always) which keeps the room at 78. It has a thermostat which controls the room temp. She is still the same as she was. No sign of her being sick, she just bobs her head and cannot perch. Other than that she seems normal. She flew into a wall the other day. Hope she isnt suffering from any brain damage etc.

Justino222

Flying into the wall might have caused some sort of damage, depending on how hard she hit it.

Recently I lost a Parrot Finch, when she apparently hit the side of the flight somehow, and broke he back or neck.

Ohhh no! Sorry to hear about tour parrot finch. She hasnt broken anything to my knowledge. She seems in great health. Besides being on the bottom of the cage and head bobbing occasionally. She does perch on the food bowl but nothing else

I recently purchased a pair of Green-backed Twinspots too, but my hen is perching fine. I'm thinking perhaps yours did have a night fright (new environment) and has injured herself. Keep a heat lamp on her and see how she does after a few days.

Justino222

She might have suffered some neurological damage, that may or may not show outwardly.

As our Sally, mentioned, I would definitely offer a heat lamp at this stage.

If you have an avian vet in your vicinity, I would seek some information and advice from them.

Justino222 wrote: I hope she pulls through as well! I have a space heater in there (as always) which keeps the room at 78. It has a thermostat which controls the room temp. She is still the same as she was. No sign of her being sick, she just bobs her head and cannot perch. Other than that she seems normal. She flew into a wall the other day. Hope she isnt suffering from any brain damage etc.

Did she start the head movement and unstable perching after the accident/flying into the wall? Is she reacting to you moving your hand in front of her, is she reacting to your hand in the cage, does she see it and fly away or stand there as if you are not there? If not reacting or this is an injury to the head the vet might be able to give you something for her.

She does not really react when I'm in front of her or stick my hand in the cage I can stick my hand right in front of her face and she still sits there. I don't know if she hit the wall hard it just sounded like it. But I don't know what outfit could be besides that I have a heat lamp on her as well as giving her electrolyte solution do you think it would be a good idea to take her to the vet? Would they possibly know anything about Finch. Thank you all so much for your help

Sally wrote: I recently purchased a pair of Green-backed Twinspots too, but my hen is perching fine. I'm thinking perhaps yours did have a night fright (new environment) and has injured herself. Keep a heat lamp on her and see how she does after a few days.

Well im glad they are doing well! They are such beautys.