Will he ever make noise again?
Two weeks ago, my professor found a fledgling crow with its beak stuck to its wing with some sticky substance (we think it may have been pine sap… I had to rip out his feathers to get him unstuck).
Well, after four hours of watching through binoculars, no parents fed him. A keel check revealed he was starving and close to death, so my fiancé and I took him in. Two weeks later, and a $500 vet appointment (and more to come), the almost two months old crow dubbed “Velcrow” still lives with us. He probably will for the foreseeable future. He has an assumed lower respiratory infection which antibiotics have proved ineffective against, so we’ll be discussing with the vet in two days when his doses are finished to start the next round of medicine to try and clear it up. Still waiting on the test results from the cbc, west Nile, chlamydia, fungal infection, and other respiratory diseases to see if we can figure out why he’s so sniffly and has a hard time breathing.
He can’t make noise. Little squeaks now and then when he eats. Otherwise, when he crows, it’s a breathy hissing noise. The vet thinks when he got stuck, which totaled a period of allegedly two days according to a student who saw him, he called for his parents so much that it destroyed his vocal cords.
Has anyone seen anything similar? Did the bird ever make noise again?