Aspergillosis
Describes the most common fungal infection in birds. Short discussion of the disease, particularly in parrots.
Avian Biotech.com: Disease Center
Offers testing for many avian diseases affecting all kinds of birds. Including DNA sexing.
Avian Disease Fact Sheet
Signs of health and disease in poultry, disease diagnosis, parasites, and nutritional deficiencies. From Virginia State University.
Avian Diseases Reading Room
Covers allergic alveolitis, heavy metal poisoning, polyoma virus, salmonella, e coli, and exotic newcastle disease. By the National Cockatiel Society.
Avian Diseases Transmissible to Humans
Describes types of diseases that do not pose a serious threat, but that pet and poultry owners should be aware of.
Avian Goiter (Thyroid Hyperplasia or Dysplasia)
An enlargement of the thyroid observed in many species of birds, including pigeons, canaries, budgerigars, and wild birds.
Avian Health Network, Inc: the Stop PDD Campaign
Non-profit charitable corporation, committed to raising public awareness and funds for avian conditions such as proventricular dilatation disease.
Avian Pox
Learn more about this disease of the skin caused by infection with the avipoxvirus group of viruses. Can spread at bird feeders and through migratory flyways.
Avian Tuberculosis
Article by a veterinarian on this serious problem that could affect both people and flocks of birds. Discusses diagnosis and treatment.
Broken Blood Feathers
How to attend to a broken blood feather in cockatiels and provides a link on how to find an avian vet.
Chronic Egg-laying
Describes this dangerous condition in certain bird species that can result in death if not treated. From Atlantic Coast Veterinary Conference.
Common Skin and Feather Disorders in Pet Birds Part I
Many diseases and disorders can affect your birds skin and feathers, including mites, baldness, cysts, behavioral feather picking, polyfollicles, and brown hypertrophy.
Dealing With Vitamin A Deficiency in Birds
Describes the most common preventable avian disease, hypovitaminosis A, which particularly affects pet birds that eat only seeds.
Effective Treatments for Common Avian Parasites
Veterinary article that covers mites, giardia, roundworms, tapeworms, trichomoniasis, and coccidian parasites.
Evaluating Birdpoop
Monitoring bird droppings can help identify illness in a bird. By Birds n Ways.
Exotic Pet Veterinarian - Avian
Find useful links to giardia, bird droppings, nutrition, first aid kit, medications, pregnancy, heat related problems, and the top ten bird killers.
Fatty Liver Disease in Cockatiels
Reasons why a parrot develops fatty liver disease and what can be done to prevent it. From Winged Wisdom Pet Bird Magazine.
Feather Picking and Self-Mutilation in Companion Birds
Defines this destructive behavior, causes, contributing factors, and recommendations.
Feather Plucking In Parrots
Discusses some common causes such as malnutrition, psychological stress, parasites, and internal organ disease in relation to this behavioral problem in birds.
House Finch Conjuctivitis
Questions and answers about this condition. Contains photographs. From Pennsylvania Wildlife Series.
How to Fix Splay Legs in Baby Lovebirds Using a Makeup Sponge
Contains photographs of how to tend to this condition in baby birds of this species.
How to Manage Feather-Picking in Caged Birds
Provides details on the differences between normal preening, lack of preening, and destructive feather picking.
Improved Aviculture Management May Prevent Candidiasis in Birds
Provides detail on Candida albicans, a fungus that can grow uncontrollably and impair respiration and feeding. Discusses management of this condition and the treatment for it.
Merck Veterinary Manual: Caged Birds
Provides an index to a variety of avian diseases such as bacterial, mycotic, parasitic, and viral.
Mycoplasmal Conjunctivitis in Wild Songbirds: The Spread of a New Contagious Disease in a Mobile Host Population
Report about the disease, particularly affecting House Finches.
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