fluid coming from beak?

Just a health concern with my Indian ring-neck, he's most probably male and at an unknown age (young though).
We returned from a car ride as we needed to get his wings clipped, and he also was brought a new travel cage. When we returned home he seemed normal until I brought him a raspberry (he loves them) and he didn't eat it as he normally would. He stood pretty still kinda hunched, neck brought towards the ground then this yellow tinted, transparent fluid started dropping from his beak. This went on for a few minutes, not a lot of fluid came out but this hasn't happened before and I couldn't find a lot of info about it at all? any one know what this might be? He's returned to normal and seems absolutely fine, just concerned about what that was!
Thank you for anything you know

Reduced appetite and drainage? I'd get him to the avian vet as soon as possible.

You need to get to him a qualified AVIAN VET RIGHT AWAY!! Emergency status!


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Did you just finish the car ride? Our Bongo used to vomit and it looked like that! But an hour after the ride he was OK!

Rember, if I am wrong and you delay seeing a vet, you may loose your baby!

Beatrice and Dani's instincts are good on this. Continued reduced appetite and vomiting would definitely call for an immediate trip to the vet... but with the addendum noted by David. Some birds get car sick. Just like us.

So if the appetite loss and/or vomiting continues after 30-45 minutes, I'd definitely get him to a certified avian vet. Or, of course, if the amount of vomiting is excessive and beyond what one might expect from simple car sickness.

Maybe car sick.
But take him to an Avian vet immediately just to be on the safe side.



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The reason I don't suspect car sick is because I've had birds BE car sick before and this just didn't sound like that.

I'm not sure if you guys remember the first time I hand fed a Ringneck baby; I found the tiniest bit of fluid in his beak and rushed him to the vet but he died anyway.

It's well known around here that I often counsel a vet visit, but with a flock of over 30 I've learned if there MIGHT be something wrong it isn't worth the risk of not going.


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This is a tricky situation and also potentially a scary one. My first reaction was that your bird must not have eaten for a while, not had any solid food in it's stomach, and got car sick and vomited just stomach acid and water. But it doesn't sound like he vomited because he made no vomiting motions, no neck stretching or heaving, and what leads me to say that IT WAS NOT VOMIT is that you said the fluid dripped from his beak for a few minutes and there wasn't much fluid that came out. That's not vomiting. If he had vomited it would not have lasted for "a few minutes" and there would be a good amount of fluid.

There are a plethora of illnesses and conditions that can cause fluid to come out of your bird's beak, crop infections being a common one, another being the stress from the wing-clipping by a stranger plus the car ride in the carrier could have actually caused a bit of vomiting that was aspirated. This would be a worse-case-scenario, but is quite common actually. There are a million other things it could be as well, but all you need to know is that all are serious, require treatment from an avian vet immediately, and can be fatal.

Bottom line here is you need to get your bird to a certified avian vet immediately, tomorrow at the latest. Not a general vet or an "exotics" vet that sees birds, as they will not be familiar with this or able to diagnose it. Please do not hesitate, this is the kind of thing that is either nothing serious at all or is very, very serious and urgent.

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Good points, Dani and Ellen.

Mhm I suggest a vet. Lincoln gets car sick and it doesn't just "drip out" for a few minutes. Once he starts the motions it's out a couple seconds later and then he's back at staring out the window or back of the seat. Until you can get him to a vet, keep him hydrated above all else because if fluid is dripping out he might become dehydrated.

I really love these 'hit and run posters' (HARP)!

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I really love these 'hit and run posters' (HARP)!

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I was thinking the same thing. There have been several lately.