Watch Baloo Grow Feathers

This is Baloo on February 18.
 She has maintained her new down and coverts well.  She has shredded some feathers -- more than a dozen single filaments less than half an inch long
 clinging to the television screen
 about 4 feet from her cage.

This shredding behavior might have been a reaction to observing a hard human fall that resulted in a dislocated shoulder and a broken nose.  The human screams and anguish must have been pretty scary to a little bird a long way from home.
It might have been a reaction to no baths and lessened human attention for two days following the accident.

 

Baloo reluctantly allows me
 to photograph her left leg,
 one of the last places she quit picking.

She's got lots of bright white new feathers
 opening up just above the elbow.

 

Baloo demonstrates some of the
 new tissue destroying behaviors
 she's developed in the last few days.

Here, we can see "plumed" down feathers on her back,
 probably the source of the small filaments on
 the television screen.

She has not trimmed off the broken back contour we observed in our last report.

New right leg feathers can be seen here.

click here for updates as Baloo overcomes feather snapping and grows new feathers

 

 

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