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Death of 20+ year old Amazon

by Pam Sweitzer
(N. Ridgeville, OH)

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My female Amazon died suddenly and unexpectently on Sunday. She was fine all morning - then flew off her cage, landed on the floor and fell over - I immediately picked her up and she was just laying there making an odd noise - a few seconds later she sat up, flew onto my living room floor - spread her wings as far as they could go - cocked her head straight back, let out this ungodly yell and died...she just had received a clean bill of health a month prior...any ideas of what happened to my bird? She was a rescue so I don't know allot about her past - except she did have a bought with a cancerous tumor - that was removed - when she was younger.

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Feb 15, 2010

Amazon death
by: Tracie

I am very sorry this happened, an empty cage is hard to look at when our beloved birds die. :-(

Dr B can not help you with why your bird died. It apparently had a seizure of some sort, but the only way to know what caused it would be to take your bird to an avian vet for a necropsy.

Sometimes something in the air causes birds to act like this. I don't want you to beat yourself up over any of this, but you might think back to see if you cleaned with a new cleaner or someone was ironing with a new Teflon iron or ironing board cover etc.

You gave your bird a good life, thank you.

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