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My parrotlet died suddenly with blood. How to protect my other bird?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Bird | Unknown - Bird | Male | unneutered

My parrotlet was noticeably ill last night. I tried to find an avian vet available but there were none open. He didn't make it through the night. Blood either being passed or thrown up. Weak and lethargic. Found him on the bottom of his cage this morning with whole regurgitated seed in his mouth. What could have caused this? No avian vet is willing to help me and answer my questions! I have another bird and I want to know if I did this somehow so I can avoid it with my other bird. Please help me

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Answered By Dr Stafford, BVetMed, MRCVS

Veterinarian

Published on October 24th, 2017

So sorry to hear this! I suspect that the bird has suffered from a nasty haemorrhagic infection or possibly traumatic injury. Either of these could have occured to the respiratory tract, leading to coughing up blood, or the gastrointestinal system, leading to passing blood. It is impossible to know exactly what caused this without having the bird postmortemed. However, in terms of your other bird, I would thoroughly clean and disinfect the cage in case there are any traces of infection. Hopefully it was a one off incident and the other will be fine. If you do notice illness contact a vet immediately. They have a duty of care to all animals so will help you. I think the regurgitated seeds were likely just brought up due to death as opposed to an illness.

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    Answered By Dr Stafford, BVetMed, MRCVS

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    So sorry to hear this! I suspect that the bird has suffered from a nasty haemorrhagic infection or possibly traumatic injury. Either of these could have occured to the respiratory tract, leading to coughing up blood, or the gastrointestinal system, leading to passing blood. It is impossible to know exactly what caused this without having the bird postmortemed. However, in terms of your other bird, I would thoroughly clean and disinfect the cage in case there are any traces of infection. Hopefully it was a one off incident and the other will be fine. If you do notice illness contact a vet immediately. They have a duty of care to all animals so will help you. I think the regurgitated seeds were likely just brought up due to death as opposed to an illness.

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