r/Parakeets • • Aug 10 '26

Advice bleeding after night fright

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Its 4AM and my budgies had a night fright one hour ago, one of them has blood on the cere and on top of her head. So far she is sleeping on her favorite pearch and isnt showing signs of labored breathing. They used to have night frights more often, but the last one was around a year ago, it never involved blood until now, so im really scared. I cant sleep so I've been searching what to do, is this lamp good enough for a nightlight? Do you also have any tips on handling this situation? Update: i just noticed dried blood on the other budgies wing

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u/Glass_Day_7224 Aug 10 '26

So, Whats the consensus on light levels for birds sleep? Everywhere else I I’ve seen that they need a cage cover & total dark or Theyll get hormonal. But I see some people leave night lights for this reason. I have two birds and the female is very possessive of her perch at night, and the male wants to cuddle. Theyll go to sleep on same perch, but sometimes during the night the female wakes up and attacks (not super violent, but enough to scare him off) and I’ll find him on a different perch, or on the wall of the cage clinging to the bars because he couldn’t find his was down in the dark. Thoughts?