The sharpie doesn’t appear to have any fractures but showed some signs of head and/or spinal trauma. On intake he was unable to stand properly and had little reflex in his feet; by tonight he was standing and acting much more alert.
And this little guy, probably a robin, came in after his finder initially fed him an acceptable emergency diet but switched to Kaytee Exact when some idiot recommended it instead. People, the label on Exact CLEARLY states it’s not for use with wild birds—see below. Nearly all baby songbirds are obligate insectivores, meaning even seed-eating adults feed their babies bugs. Exact is a grain-based diet. Do you know what happens when you feed a grain-based diet to a bird that needs insect protein? Yeah, tain’t pretty. Luckily, the finder questioned the use of Exact when she saw the bird rapidly decline and got him to LWR ASAP. Now on a proper diet and getting antibiotics for possible aspiration pneumonia (he was click-breathing on intake), he seems to be doing well. Time will tell, but I’m hopeful there will be no lasting damage to the wee fellow.