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Admission date2024-12-30
Final date2025-01-07
Days in captivity8
SpeciesBADO - Barred owl
AgeATY
SexUNK
StatusR
Band2187-24409
Blunt Talons - Both feet
Dislocation - left MC/digit
Feathers - sooty/soiled
Fracture - MC, left

Cause of injury: Trapped in chimney

Needs cope

Found in Charlotte,NC
Mecklenburg county
Here is a summary of this patient's treatments and expenses:

DescQtyCostSubtotal
Examination1120.00120.00
Daily rate815.40123.20
Radiographs3300.00900.00
Total  1143.20

Costs are estimates based on fees charged at a local avian specialist.
Radiographs and images

2025-01-02

2025-01-02

2025-01-02
2025-01-07 14:38 ME
Weight: 777 grams
Weight change: +45 g (6 %)
NOLO!
sharpened talons

Release record
Date2025-01-07
Band/tag number2187-24409
Band size7B
Released byME
Location
Denver, Lincoln county, NC

2025-01-06 13:18 me

All M from yesterday LO - left them

Introduced 2 dark LM - bird swooped down within 10 sec to capture one!

--Plan-- release tomorrow (Sharpen blunt talons first)

Flight eval
Exam date - 2025-01-06
Examiner - me
FlightSound
Notes:
flew 13x enclosure length easily, gliding 1/2 length on most flights, quiet, maintaining altitude - looks great

2025-01-05 16:43 JB
Weight: 732 grams, Leftovers: 63
Food: 70 g m left out
BARP, 63 g of LO dk m, P to P
FF 11 g mouse

Gave 30ml SQ fluids with vitamin B to stimulate appetite.

2025-01-04 15:42 egg
Leftovers: 61
Food: 66 g m
Force feed: 14 g m
BAR, perched. 61 g LOs. Caught and force fed.

2025-01-03 17:45 cd

Did not grab tonight, will check on tomorrow

2025-01-03 15:41 cd
Leftovers: 37
Food: 66g m (+ vit + Ca)

BARP. Flew perch to perch 5x with little encouragement, mostly silent. 37g LO removed - ate one m? Left new food in to see if he will eat some more before tx time. May not grab tonight to encourage continued eating - BCS is better and wt is up.

2025-01-02 10:53 ME
Weight: 732 grams, Keel score: 3.0, Leftovers: 0
Food: 53 g m
NOLO!
Anesthetized with ISO via mask (5% induction, 3% maintenance) for intake Radiograph: L distal Major MC fx and dislocation of prox digit 2; slight movement in joint, very similar to R side; Old injury, affecting a joint that does not typically have much mobility so bird should be ok
Small scabs on R & L wrist, MC
Slow recovery

MOVED TO:F 9

Flew to lower perch and dropped to floor. After brief rest flew to lower perch.

2025-01-01 10:41 MS
Leftovers: 49
Food: 33 g m (+ vit + Ca)
Force feed: 13 g m c/u (+ vit + Ca)
SQ fluids: 35 ml L leg

BARP, flew to wall and clung, then flew p2p. Did not eat chick from yesterday.

2024-12-31 09:14 SC
Weight: 714 grams, Leftovers: 32
Weight change: +13 g (2 %)
Food: 79 g m/ck

BAR, perched. All LO. Talons are dull. Opted to move out to R13 and give a shallow water dish. May consider some FF and fluids later today

----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
Switch to SID
FF SID
Fluids SQ - SID for 3 days

2024-12-30 16:31 cd/srm

Food: 33g m/ck (+ vit + Ca)

qar, perched, no neuro or physical signs of injury or impairment. No food given earlier

2024-12-30 13:53 cd

Band changed to: 18156

2024-12-30 13:39 cd
Weight: 701 grams, Keel score: 2.5
Captured from chimney. Finder reports having heard the bird for about 2 weeks.

------------- PHYSICAL EXAM FINDINGS ----------------
Head
Behavior and Neuro: BAR
Mouth: clean
Nares: sooty
Beak: sooty
Body
Vent: clean
Body condition score: 2.5
Wings
Left wing: wnl full ext
Left wrist: some soot on skin
Right wing: wnl full ext
Right wrist: some soot on skin
Legs
Left leg: wnl full ext
Right leg: wnl full ext
Feathers: mildly sooty
Ectoparasites: none seen

Bird presents very BAR, attempting to lunge from box. Overall NSF - soot on beak and in nares, some stuck to skin on wrists. No soft tissue wounds, eye damage, or feather damage. Little skinny, muscle feels just a bit squishy. May have been able to come & go from chimney for a while and got stuck recently; would have expected a worse body & feather condition if stuck for 2 wks. Finished treatment and set up in R17e - immediately perched then clung to ceiling.

Treatment
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25cc LRS SQ L leg
Banded
Cleaned beak, nares, & wrists

Plan
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Move to resting enclosure after intake rads. If NSF and body condition improves plan to eval & release soon.

Eye exam
Exam date - 2024-12-30
Examiner - cd
RIGHTLEFT
PLRMenacePLRMenace
++DNE++DNE
Stain Stain 
NEG NEG 
Right eye:
Stain NEG. Some random, mild scarring; seen medial, medial/caudal, cranial; rest of retina WNL
Left eye:
Stain NEG. retina WNL

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