Comments on: Treatment of a wild ring‐necked parakeet with a fractured ulna

A member of the public brings in a green ring-necked parakeet (Pstittacula krameri) that they found on the ground in their local park, unable to fly.It appears to be a recently fledged juvenile, approximately six to seven weeks old.On examination, the bird has a left radial/ulnar swelling and a couple of minor skin scrapes.The patient is not microchipped and behaves like a wild bird rather than an escaped pet.You administer analgesia and fluid therapy, then provide crop feeding when it does not eat voluntarily because of being anxious in the hospital environment.It is housed in a warm, quiet kennel.The following day, you anaesthetise the parakeet and take radiographs, which reveal a clean, minimally displaced mid-shaft fracture of the ulna.As it is a 'non-native' species, the bird cannot legally be released.Some rehabilitators will take parakeets and keep them in large, naturalised aviaries for the duration of their natural life.How might you proceed?(IP, vol 48,