{"id":13927,"date":"2025-11-17T12:31:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/?p=13927"},"modified":"2025-11-17T12:34:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:34:46","slug":"american-goldfinch-with-split-beak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/american-goldfinch-with-split-beak\/","title":{"rendered":"American Goldfinch With Split Beak"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13928\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13928\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928\" src=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/american-goldfinch-beak-wnbr-2511-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"close up on head of American goldfinch that is lying on towel with cotton swab holding open beak and showing the split bottom beak\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/american-goldfinch-beak-wnbr-2511-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/american-goldfinch-beak-wnbr-2511-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/american-goldfinch-beak-wnbr-2511-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/american-goldfinch-beak-wnbr-2511.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Wild Nest Bird Rehab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13935\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13935\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13935\" src=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/american-goldfinch-fed-wnbr-2511-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"American goldfinch being syringe-fed by person wearing gloves\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/american-goldfinch-fed-wnbr-2511-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/american-goldfinch-fed-wnbr-2511-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/american-goldfinch-fed-wnbr-2511-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/american-goldfinch-fed-wnbr-2511.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Wild Nest Bird Rehab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>The following story about an American goldfinch was shared with us by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildnestbirdrehab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wild Nest Bird Rehab<\/a> in Georgia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are a nonprofit, wildlife rehabilitation organization based in Decatur, Georgia. Our mission is to rehabilitate and release injured and\/or orphaned wild birds.<\/p>\n<p>This American goldfinch arrived to us with a split lower beak. The beak was able to be splinted, but the patient was unable to self-feed and needed to be on a liquid diet to keep pressure off of the injury.<\/p>\n<p>We fed him with <a href=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/emeraid-carnivore\/\">EmerAid IC Carnivore<\/a> for several days. He was very enthusiastic about it and is now on the way to healing.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of many examples of how the Emeraid IC products play a major role in our ability to treat wild birds who have difficulty with their normal diet while in rehab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American goldfinch with a beak injury gets help from people at Wild Nest Bird Rehab and is on the road to recovery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":13928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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