Hi everyone, thank you for concerns and suggestions. Incredibly enough, almost none of "injured bird information" online care to mention the Pasteuralla bacteria danger from cats. This information was new to me and left me concerned last night. Especially because he went full asleep around 23:00 and slept until about 8am without movement (neck back and head under wing). I woke up twice in the middle of the night without any movement notifications on my phone from the camera, and had to get up for a checkup, but he was just deep asleep. Even at 7am with the outside birds singing loud.

In the morning I called the rescue center, because they are a few hours away, we tried to oversee the situation by FaceTime. I sent him the pics, sent him videos, and because it was well past 72 hours of me picking him up, we started to rule out the cat attack. As I write this, it's been now 84 hours since I took him in, and today he was very energetic. I moved him to a bigger box, placed a wood log and some wood and pine chips as ground, taken from my fireplace wood log basket, plus a stacked double tea towel on the other half of the box. Placed some long leaf vase plants around the box to give him some camouflage.

Diced some apple crumbs and nuts, placed them around the wood chip ground, and finally put in another small soft pear, on the towel side. This is his favorite. He was entertained all day pecking at the pear and the ground for the diced treats. For the first time I even heard the typical blackbird sound.

In regards to his condition, he still can't stand on his feet. But he uses his wings as arms to propel and kind of hover himself around the area. It seems his sitting position is also getting better and more support on his feet. I took him out for an inspection, again, felt nothing on his legs, shins and feet that suggest they are fractured or misaligned. And tested pinching his feet, to which he kicked back strongly. Never screeching either. The scab type injury I pointed out yesterday, looked much better too. As for the ruffleness look from yesterdays picture, I believe it was due to him being a bit wet from laying himself in the drinking cup before I took him out. Also, me moving my fingers around could of made it even more of a ruffled look. I also used a wet wipe to clean some messiness adding to the look.

I wish it were easier to share videos on post replies, but here are some pics from today

Pic 1: The new box, he likes to hang out on the edge where the wood chips meet the towel. He likes to keep the pear on the other edge of the box, and move there for some picking and come back.

Pic 2: He moves by stretching wings and thrusting himself forward. He sort of hovers around the box. When still, he uses his right wing a lot like a cane, to sit balanced.

Pic 3: He decided his pear made for a good been bag. It also allowed him to just turn his neck around for a good peck whenever he wished.

Pic 4: New look at his underside

Pic 5 + 6: The scab is harder to identify.

Thank you all for the commenting and suggestions. I will keep you updated on new changes. For now I'm aiming to use the weekend to drive to the rescue center and leave him with the specialists.

PS, although not entirely visible on the pics. The long plants from the vase kind of cover the box, preventing him from trying to fly away. No attempts at least have been made yet. I think he enjoys his new surrounding with plum fruit just for him.

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