My Rose Breasted Cockatoo Gator got a bad wing clip a few months ago. When she tries to fly, or coast to the ground, she actually goes over backwards instead. Usually she lands with her tail feathers bent underneath her, which is painful, I'm sure. She's broken a few tail feathers, but nothing major until today.
She flipped off her playstand and landed hard on her tail feathers, as usual. But this time there were blood droplets, lots of them. I could see that her tail was bloody, so I assumed it was a broken blood feather. Called my birdy vet and rushed her down within 15 mins. They pulled two blood feathers (one broken, one split up the middle, yecch) and three broken ordinary feathers.
The unexpected part? They charged me NOTHING for the vet call.
This kind of thing just doesn't happen here in The OC....