deformed beak, broken wing

[Kashakasha]

I volunteer at the Audubon wildlife care center in Portland, Oregon. Today someone brought in a pigeon in a rather bad way. Unfortunately, we only care for native wildlife and this was a park pigeon, so I took it home. It has a broken wing, and even if it were set, it likely would never fly again anyway, it also has mites. My main concern, however, is its beak. The beak is so deformed that when it was brought in, the top part was actually shoved through the bottom part. They were seperated, but still do not meet properly and of course there is a hole in the bottom portion. When it drinks, some of the water runs out of this hole and I have not yet seen it eat. Is there anything that can be done for this bird? I am looking for help because I am afraid that even if it does survive in its current condition, that its quality of life would be considerably poor, not being able to fly and either living by itself or with birds of a different spieces. Would it be more humane to put such a bad off bird to sleep, as it would have been had I not "rescued" it?

[Trees Gray]

Thank you for your kindness in taking this bird in.

Has the bird been warmed up and put in quiet draft free place?

The bird needs to be hand fed and must be starving cause he can't pick up any seed with the injury to beak or the beak may be blocking the food passage. Have you checked inside the beak? . Have you tried spoon feeding it seed, or syringe feeding it? You can even use soaked puppy chow in desperate situation.

If the top mandable is still intact you may be able to gently pull it out so that it is in allignment with the other, in the position it should be in. I have done this with a pigeon myself, who had his top mandable jambed back, but this was a recent occurance and it came back out easy. Not knowing how long this bird has had this problem, you may need professional help on this.

Let us know how he is doing.

Treesa

[Snowbird]

If you send it to me in California, I'll take it. You need to get enough energy into that bird to make the trip.