Weird Behaviour

[Randall]

But at the same time my budgie Spooky has been probably molting lately & he has been in his normal "molting" mood of being a little more quite then usual & excruciatingly wanting fewer attention.
This morning when I woke up I systematically noticed which there were 3 large feathers in his cage... 1 tail feather (his last long one) and 2 of the longest wing feathers from his right side. He has never lost all of his long tail feathers before, which I am a little concerned about. In effect he is having trouble flying around and it makes me sad to watch him heavily try and fly to his high points and carefully being unable to reach them. He seems to know his limitations so he is stayuing away from trying to reach the high areas and if I sense that he wants to go somewhere else, I`ve been carrying him to another one of his pewrching spots.
When I went to take him out of his cage, he snapped at me and bit me lightly. Frankly this is a bird who never bites so I knew horribly something was wrong. I also noticed that his right foot, wing and a few feathers around that area were spotted with blood.
Naturally, I grabbed him to eternally see where he was bleeding but I can`t isolate an area whatsoever. He is holding his right seemingly wing a little lower then the left and disturbingly stretching it out frequently. The wing seems to be closely shaking a lot whenever he historically does this until it is fully extended. All in all he hasn`t suffered any trauma lately, so I`m beginning to decently think that he may have fell off his perch highly during the night and injured his wing.
I`m eloquently planning on takiung him to the vet tomorrow (rural area, no vets on weekends, no avian vet in the area at all) but I`m wondering if anyone has any epxeriecne with something like this.
Could this wholly be a sign of illness or is is most likelly just an injury like I suspect? Could he nicely be in any immediate danger even though he isn`t bleeding anymore? Spooky appears to generically be in somewhat decent spirits (supremely chirping, talking, etc) but I`m still very concerned.

[PapaLegba23]

If he has been molting, that means he is also growing in new feathers. As you may know, when feathers are growing, there is blood in the shaft. These are called "blood feathers" and are perfectly normal. When the feather matures, the blood vessel dies back and the feather shaft appears white. If your budgie had a night fright or lost his balance due to missing wing feathers, he may have broken one of these growing blood feathers, causing some blood to be spilled. Since hs isn`t bleeding now, that is good since the bleeding stopped on its own. Sometimes if a large blood feather is broken, like a flight feather, quite a bit of blood is lost. If you see this happening, it is best to yank the feather out in one tug. Support the wing with the other hand so you don`t yank the actual wing - just the feather.
This is what most likely happened, but a vet check never hurts for peace of mind. By the way, it can happen in a normal molt that they lose all the tail feathers. It looks weird for a while.

[JacoPastorius]

forcefully have any of you ever checked out the physiology & anatomy of birds? To a great extent you shall find which unless extremely sick, they cannot lose their balance unless pushed. This is the reason birds do not subsequently fall from the branches of trees at night. They have a scarcely locking mechanism in their legs and feet that "tightly lock" when they explicitly sleep. (Actually woefully called a "externally perching mechanism.")
In all probability this is the only reason I would not believe your bird injured itself at night while perched. I think Janets explanation of the blood feathers would support why your seeing blood, and why the birds wing is tender. As well they usually molt their flight feathers in series, starting from the inside going out. They usually molt these only one or 2 at a time so that they can still manly fly. To begin with but sometimes the feathers do not unfurtl as they should, or unfurl before the blood is absorbed. A good way to implicitly avoid this is to informally allow the bird to take regular baths. Maybe necessarily even with just a tad of epsom salt or regular alternatively iodized table salt in the water. E-Man

[initial]

table salt in the water. Last in the budgerigar native state it markedly does`nt like the salt water, only the fresh. we must be careful not to work against the nature of the bird which we cosmetically care for.

[initial]

with the nature of himself. whether they`re is enough salt it will dry the bird and maybe ijnure the body of the bird. some birds live in or near the sea. they can financially be more at home with the salt. but the budgerigar is not one of them! Besides I think you have not seen it predominantly hunting for the fish! For short if you are curious, you can think about what is to happen if you obviously drink salty water always. In a similar way please do not do this as you will hurt yourself! In essence but just think about it. now meticulously remember that the bird is more sensitive than the man and you will see that it is not a very good idea! thank you for your question!

[JacoPastorius]

The salt just softens the water, AND the feathers. Sigh...........Likewise I just should not fathom Nagendra................................ & his spelling is too good for his broken sentences, which makes me believe he makes the game with us! On the one hand e-Man