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Message: <blockquote data-quote="smallonion" data-source="post: 1258154" data-attributes="member: 60289">I am sorry to post this here but I am desperate to help this little guy if he needs it. I used to post occasionally under the name 'smallonion' but can't seem to log in anymore.  You guys have always seemed so knowledgeable, so if anyone can help, you guys can. I have called a dozen wildlife rehab centers and they are all closed. Bascially, my mom has an urban, feral pigeon (blue bar) in her bird bath. It is 8Pm at night. She noticed it at around 6,  and It didnt' move for 2 hours. She called me, and I came over. I got within a foot of it and it didn't fly off. It was standing in the water, with it's legs kind of spread, and it was standing in a weird posture I've never seen on a pigeon. Its eyes look like they're rolling back, and he was standing straight up, yet fluffed in the crop area. It was moving in a weird way. If I didnt' know any better, I'd think it was going to lay an egg. I called every wildlife rehab I could find but they are all closed. I have parrots, so, if the bird was sick,  i didn't want it in my house to infect my parrots, and my mom wouldn't bring it in her house. We put a box outside, sort of suspended so the pigeon could go in if he wanted to hide. During all my phone calls, he got out of the bird bath, and stood on the ground - when I say 'stood', I mean it. He was bolt upright, like a penguin. Not standing like a pigeon. Any idea what is wrong and what we should do? I don't know who to ask. Many thanks</blockquote>

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