Pebbles the Scaley Lorikeet still has no tail & flight feathers........I read somewhere today an article by a vet about lorikeets that cant fly..........they reckoned that about 1/3 of lorikeets are born runners.....about a third of those will moult & grow feathers but the rest are generally doomed, never to fly......they think its a viral thing & that people who find them in the wild should get over it & tap them on the head for the good of the individual and the population..........anyone got any thought/knowledge/opinion on this.......I'm dreading informing my partner that her beloved pet is a liability....especially as we are working towards building a collection of different lorikeets which are likely to be infected by our little mate.....having said all that, I still think its plausible that his tail was chewed/plucked as we were told.......I'd like to trust the people who we got him from.
