Our vet showed me a great toweling technigue for injections. This was for an Amazon: I took a large towel - one end kind of twisted into a rope. Catch up the parrot in the towel, with it over the head so the struggling is minimal. Then wrap the twisted end of the towel around the parrot just below the neck, and uncover the head. Sometimes these things happened all at once, it seemed. What you wind up with is a bundle of parrot. I would put him between my thighs on my lap or leave him on the bed. The lower part of the towel is loose enough to open up and examine the belly and torso at leisure. The thicker rolled part forms a barrier that the parrot can't bite over, kind of like a collar. The syringe was like an insulin syringe with a tiny needle, maybe 1/4" long at most, and the idea was to inject in the muscle either side of the keel bone, alternating sides - say left top, right top, left middle, right middle, etc. so you can avoid sticking in the same place. With the parrot wrapped like that, you don't have to use any hands to hold him, so you can part the feathers with one hand, find a good site, then inject quickly. Just put the needle all the way in and then push the plunger. I used to hold the syringe body with my left hand and actually press the needle in, then push the plunger with the right hand while steadying the syringe with the other. There was a good video I found, I'll look for it.
