The angel wing (AW) phenomenon in birds is considered to be due to excessive pressure on the muscles and ligaments of the wrist joints and the metacarpal bone, leading to malformation of the distal carpal bones and causing the forewings to twist outward (Arican et al., 2019). It affects the carpometacarpus or the joint between the third and fourth metacarpals, which twists outward away from the body, mostly during growth, resulting in wings resembling those of an angel (Shaw et al., 2012). The phenomenon is more common among domesticated birds or wild birds raised in captivity, especially in waterfowl (Lin et al., 2016), such as geese (Shaw et al., 2012), swans (Arican et al., 2019 and ducks (Shaw et al., 2012); however, cases in other species including psittacines, raptors, bustards, herons and cranes have also been reported (