https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/clinical-questions/25630/acute-respiratory-distress-canary apologies for poor quality of rads....just wondering if anything obvious jumps out at anyone, that I&#39;ve missed and that might explain sudden onset sx in 9 month old canary. found bottom of cage with eyes shut, tachpnoeic, hypepnoeic, feathers fluffeden-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/177472?ContentTypeID=1Sun, 09 Apr 2017 05:19:00 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:934703a7-95a0-47fa-bfc5-bb00a6c30239CatherineThomas<p>It&#39;s difficult to tell from those xrays and viewing them on my phone but i&#39;d guess at coelomic distension causing obliteration of the air spaces rather than airway disease. What can you feel on palpation of the coelom? I don&#39;t think the quality of picture is good enough on here to determine if there is an egg in there or not. Your main differentials are organ enlargement, could be liver or kidney or reproductive tract or GI tract. Or it could be ascites. You&#39;re probably wasting your time with nebulisation, oxygen will be more beneficial. Whatever you do don&#39;t put a needle in there, if it&#39;s got ascites you could drown it. You could try feeding some contrast material and re-taking xrays to see if it highlights things better- either because the GI tract is involved or the GI tract is displaced by whatever is going on. Barium needs diluting more than cats or dogs but I don&#39;t know the protocol without checking my notes/book which I don&#39;t have with me. If you take more xrays try to pull the legs back on both views to get better positioning. Hopefully one of the others will come along with more advice.</p> <p>But in such a small bird any other kind of diagnostics/treatment or even just keeping it alive is going to be tricky so I think you&#39;ve done well to getit this far.</p> <p></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>