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Miss Lydia said:
Please keep us updated on how she is doing. and yes anytime one shows weakness the other are determined to run it off . It's survival of the fittest and she could draw in predators is their thinking.

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Oh, I didn't know that fact. Make lots of sense now.
 
I think the mucus could be a respiratory infection or a problem with her crop, and it's possible that her wings are drooping like that because she is sick, not injured.

May I suggest that you get a kitchen scale and start weighing her daily.

You also didn't mention if she is eating or not. Is she eating and drink a normal amount?
 
bdtoepfer said:
The rehabilitation center asked if I was a rehabber. I might have to go get a license.
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If I was in this situation,

I would just leave it be. No since dealing with all that money and time as well as take a short course in wild animal husbandry before you take that wild duck on. It has a mate somewhere. I have Canadian geese that because I have a pond will vacay their “sick, injured or pooped birds here. I am on my 4th visitation year and my chosen adopted pair out of a group of twenty stays all winter and this is first yr they may nest. They actually come about this time. I also have muscovies that split up between the near neighbors pond and winter over.
I usually let them be because their mate will come back. Sometimes, the gander or drake go ahead to check out territory for hen... a lot of times. My 2 nd year, the drake dropped off his hen because she had a limp. We named her Hoppy. That spring, she was healed and he came for her. They trust me to let them be and keep my distant, hands off approach.

I think in your case, with runny nose, you could suspect a respiratory issue and call the wildlife and game so they can have it checked out and report it if that is the case to be able to watch the same species for issues. But if it just needs water after a long flight, release it to a natural water source.

Maybe this will help,

We ride bikes and we are flying down the rd, wind beating our face. Guess what happens everytime we stop? We have runny noses from dry air trying to clean out crap we just inhaled. A duck flies hundreds of miles! Lol oh my thats a lot of snot!

IF NO OTHER FOWL on property then maybe assist but for rehabilitating only, no touching, no caging and understanding they are built to take care of themselves but maybe providing a cover for him, if you think he stopped from injury. Just put him under something and let him be and he stopped there for a reason. He may have a shelter, even a hen laying on a nest. No food unless he can’t get it himself, no processed, only what he eats out there. Then it is minnows, tadpoles or insects in his baby pool. He will call for his group or nature has made them push him away for survival. You could find your closest water source near your house and see if he thinks it is close enough to call his family or start over. And sometimes birds fall out of the sky eventually, coming to their final resting place and some of us get to witness it and be there in the end. Lucky you to have seen such a beautiful bird!
 

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