Found a budgie

[rosegoldbe]

New here and apologies for asking in advance.

I found a budgie flying around my house, for four or five days I tried to get him, and today I finally coaxed him into a cage. On the first or second day I noticed a spot on his lower back(?) above his tail has exposed feathers as in you see the pins where they start. I've never seen it in any budgie I owned.

Now, today before I caught him, I saw his longest tail feather came off possibly overnight and of course that's concerning. I'm curious if anyone thinks it may be possibly from being out in the wild and developing an infection of some sort, scrapping with bird, or worse cases like PBFD and French molt. Everywhere else he looks perfectly fine and flies perfectly. I tried to get a good pic. He's not aggressive or anything and has been in a decent mood as I've observed.

 

[Zara]

Hello,

Looks like there's a lot of new tail feathers growing in there, I see a lot of pins. That could be because he dropped his tail feathers at somepoint, possibly to escape an attack, maybe he just had a fright. It is a good sign that they are growing back!

As for PBFD, his face and beak look good, as fo the rest of his feathers. The best thing to do is go for a check up at the vet, just to be sure he's doing ok

 

[Scorpi0]

That budgie looks like a healthy bird.
Its very possible he is someone’s pet and probably escaped. Try looking around to see if you can find his owner if possible.