- Holistic Bird Newsletter
- Find avian health and disease articles on anatomy, immune, digestive, urinary, and reproductive systems. Includes sections on special needs birds, behavior, stress management, and healing herbs. - 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 Goiter (Thyroid Hyperplasia or Dysplasia) - An enlargement of the thyroid observed in many species of birds, including pigeons, canaries, budgerigars, and wild birds.
- Correcting Spraddle or Splay Leg in Birds - Describes this condition, its causes, and the importance of early intervention.
- 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.
- 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.
- Gout In Birds - Describes this condition, dietary recommendations, and medications to control it.
- 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.
- Signs of Respiratory Problems - Discusses sneezing, nasal discharge, coughing, loss or change of voice, and heavy breathing.
- Sour Crop - A life-threatening complication usually seen in baby birds where the crop stops emptying and becomes distended with fermenting food and fluids. Includes questions and answers.
- The Amazing Avian Beak Anatomy and Common Disorders - Learn about beaks, their functions, parts, diseases, and disorders.
- The Veterinarian - Treating vomiting and regurgitation in birds - Describes the differences between vomiting and regurgitation which owners sometimes confuse. Covers diagnostic procedures, obstructions, disease of the upper alimentary tract, proventricular, and ventricular disease.
- Thyroid Testing in Avian Species - Discusses signs of hypothyroidism in birds and current testing methods.
- Visceral Gout in Birds - Health concern plaguing caged birds, which is brought on by the build up of uric acid.