Vertical wing feathers on Rose Breasted Cockatoo  Hello Doctor, 6 weeks ago I trimmed my parrots wing feathers and she screamed and wiggled constantly like never before!!! She is 5 years old. Now the ...

My Canary has a sore leg.  My one year old canary hen has a sore leg that she keeps under her feathers.I don't know what is wrong with her. What can I do. Can I place it in peroxide ...

Black Masked Lovebird pulling out feathers  My black masked lovebird has just recently started pulling out his feathers. He is almost totally bare on his tummy. He is a happy active bird at the age ...

strange colored feathers  Hi, my galah was rescued about 4 years ago by my friends from a lady giving her away saying her husband was going to kill her. Her gray feathers where ...

My Cockatiel Has Something in His Eye  I took my bird outside today and noticed that he has something in his eye. He does seem to blink a lot, and I am wondering if I can use water, etc. (It ...

female electus parrot  how can i prevent the egg laying in an electus parrot? when she lays her eggs is there anything i can give her to keep her healthy during this particular ...

love bird broke her leg  my lovebird broke her leg about 2 week before and i took her to birds vet and they put cast on her leg and after two week i revisited to birds vet to take ...

something hard sticking out on left side of chicken's neck  hi. my chicken has what looks and feels like a bone sticking out on the left side of his neck. i dont know if this is normal (because she's still growing)...

crooked beak  my african greys beak grows crooked on the bottom part one side a lot longer then the other, should we be trimming it?

Scaly Breasted Lorikeet - Wants to "Mate" with my Feet!  My pet Scaly Breasted Lorikeet (2 Years old) is very tame and he can talk too! Whilst he is IN his cage I can pet him, talk to him and he talks back.
He ...

Regurgitation & How Many Nuts Are Too Many?  Hi, I have a Blue & Gold Macaw @ 5yrs. old, who constantly throws up on just about anything and everything she has and then re-eats it. Most of the time ...

baby lovebird not pooping  i have a baby lovebird which is about 1 month old, i had to take it away from the parents since they were inexperienced at breeding and had already killed ...

Limping 2 month old chicken  Today when I let all my young chicken into the house for the night I noticed one was limping... I observed it closely and saw that its right leg is somehow ...

Scaly Breasted Lorikeet tired looking  hi I have a scaly breasted lorikeet and have noticed today that he/she is not eating much. I picked him/her up and he didnt climb up just sat there like ...

Galah in corner of cage  I have 2 galahs and one of them is sitting in the corner of her cage.
Is this normal?
Shes fine, eating and drinking and being annoying.

Macaw eating habits  Our 11 year old female macaw grinds through her food within a matter of minutes, discarding 99% of her food as she grinds. She had started swallowing her ...

my crimson rosella has a bubble on the back of his neck  i noticed after a shower with my brid that he had a bubble on the back of his neck( raused area of skin) it looked like a really big blister. about an ...

cockatoo panting and shaking?  not always but once in a while our 7 yr old female cockatoo LuLu will open her mouth and shake. like she is panting. it worries me. other than that she ...

Over grown budgie beak  My budgies beak is over grown alot and it's starting to reach her neck I think this is affecting her eating should I go to the vet right away and how much ...

canary feather loss...  Hello, I am new to being a bird owner (3mos). My male canary has been loosing feathers for a month now. I have been giving daily baths, and extra protein ...

Pekin duck 9 days old eyelid torn off  I have a baby pekin duck, our chicken grabbed him today and tore his outer eyelid off! He seems to be okay, he is eating and drinking and swimming just ...

overgrown beak  My cockatiel's beak has become really wide and overgrown, mainly at the bottom. He has sticks and rough texture perches but they don't seem to help. Is ...

goose with infected foot  goose stepped on thorn. we extracted it but now it seems infected. he is badly hobbling on one foot. we washed with gelatin soap and water and put on oxigenated ...

baby canaries  my baby canaries are approx 10 days old the mother no longer stays in the nest at night is this normal

mcaw scratching face  My blue and gold mcaw is scratching his neck and side of his face and making himself bleed. Why is he doing this?

Mini macaw feather problems  I am unsure if my parrot is a hahns or noble macaw but his beak has been peeling. He also has a tail feather that is like half gone on one side and black ...

How can u tell the sex of a Congo African grey  How can u tell the sex of an African grey

Duck Eyes closed  Why does my duck have her eyes closed constantly.

baby chickens  my baby chicken has poop on his bottom, but he has alot of it. what does this mean?

Budgie with huge lump  My budgie has grown a huge lump on his stomach. It is all crusty and red.

Senegal Limping  My Senegal has 2 red spots on the bottom of 1 foot. Began limping slightly, but is now getting worse to the point of him not wanting to put any weight ...

best cage for canary with 1 good leg  Our canary broke a leg about 6 weeks ago. Was treated by vet - is going great, no signs of pain/distress. We have kept him in a terrarium to keep him ...

Zebra finch hole in the beak   My zebra finches, 3 of them out of 8 have developed a hole in the middle of their beak. Another one is beginning to develop one. These are the younger ...

My Rainbow lorikeet just died  Hi all, Yesterday my lorrie started vomiting so we brought her and her partner inside.
This morning she was okay, but just an hour ago, we was dead. Her ...

Getting new bird to eat pellets  I am having difficulty figuring out how to get my new bird to eat pellets while keeping my older bird, that eats pellets, from eating the new bird's seed....

my cockatoo's eggs  I have cockatoos ma and pa they are sitting on eggs but time has come now when they should start hatching and havent . however the parents are very protective ...

spike on back of birds neck  Hello, I have had my cockateil for about a month now and was petting him and noticed on the back of his neck close to his sholderblades, there is a black ...

Rainbow Lorrikeet from NZ pulling out feathers  I have brought my bird back with me from NZ and he started pulling feathers out when I sprayed him with some flea powder Usually I spray with adiluted ...

Cocktiel not active  hi
i am a new cocktiel owner....... i just got it yester that is on 17\1\2012.......my bird doesnt chirp at all.........it doesnt make any sounds.......it ...

Bird has swollen foot with puss and black toe   My bird has a swollen foot and it has some yellow pus coming out and the end of the toe is turning black. When I first noticed a problem it was swollen ...

Rainbow Lorikeet attacked by Dog  Hi, my Rainbow Lorikeet was unfortunately attacked by a dog recently, and had his entire tail feathers and some wing feathers torn out and damaged. We ...

lovebird with flaky beak  In the last few weeks we noticed that our lovebird has a flaky, dry beak with streaks.
Is it a sign of a disease?
thank you

my budgie is being sick and its yellow  she cant keep her food down its coming up all seeded but she is still talking to us like she always does what can i give her please

African Grey strange scratching   My african grey has scratched her feathers very thin on the back of her neck,ears and throat. She also seems to message her throat with her claw. She is ...

my Lovebird Pleas help!  Hello My love bird has something on her beak it looks like a crack but's not I can touch it and it dose not hurt her. Please help me it's at the base of ...

African grey parrot  My african grey parrot has started to make a very strange noise which sounds like it unwell a very quiet growning noise his eyes seem very heavy im not ...

Parakeet's all puffy, has one leg up, and his nose is getting brownish.  Please help me because my parakeet is all puffy and has one leg up every single day and it's the same leg up. At times he would look normal but then after ...

Female Canary  My mother has a beautiful female Canary she is constantly laying eggs, as soon as we remove them,she lays more eggs. this is all she does. Is that hamful ...

My sun conure in tent  My sun conure is usually out of her cage and always wanting to be by us. But for the past few days she's been laying in her tent, very fluffy and looks ...

Prognosis of Indian Ring neck health problem  It has been 6 months since i clipped my parrots wings and now grown back and i seem to notice after flying for some time open mouthed heavy breathing and ...

Feather picking 2 year old military macaw  Our 2ish year old macaw has been feather picking for the last couple months. our avian vet has done a couple test and her health seems to behold. we had ...

dry blood prob??  my budgie had dry blood on the top of his head do you know what happened to him?

My cockatiel is shaking/pulsing and squeaking  Hi my 1 year old female cockatiel has been leaning over on her perch and shaking/pulsing and squeaking. Is this a sexual thing or is something wrong? A ...

My umbrella cockatoo acts fine but has white spit in his mouth?  My umbrella cockatoo, has white foamy spit in his mouth, hes also chewing on it, he acts completely fine, and is eating, drinking, and playing normally ...

The sex of my parakeet.  I have a young parakeet and it has a purple cere it is a male or female? I really want to know. The bird can't talk like my other bird, and this bird likes ...

bird angry??  why do my budgies scream and flap their wings when i scold my kid???

Injured pigion  I found a healthy looking pigion outside flapping around in the snow. I took it home and there are no broken bones or wings that i can see, it walks fine ...

help?! parakeet nose  what does it mean when my parakeets nose above has been losing color and scaleing

pain on tail  our 2 year old blue indain ringneck has been feeling pain on her tail and we noticed that it turned a little bit purple what can we do to make his pain ...

musk lorikeet vomiting  my musk lorikeet has started to vomit while we were away on our boat i am scared i need to know what to do

Muscovy drakes feathers shabby and worn  Hi. My Muscovy drake's tail and wing feathers look worn and shabby. The soft parts are missing from the feathers and only central shafts remain on the ...

my budgie died with a death grip on the cage  my budgie was less than a year old, and seemed very happy. he was singing and happy when i left, and weh i got home about six hours later he was dead on ...

Cockatiel with respiratory problems..  I found my cockatiel laying on the floor three days ago , and we took him to the vet .. The doctor said he has bad respiratoy problems , he gave us some ...

sick doves  My male dove has red swollen eyes and they are watering the feed store gave me antibiotic but I would like to know what causes it

u2 that chews on spit ???  I have a 3 year old umbrella cockatoo who appears to be chewing on her own spit its kinda thick but not discolored and she just sits there and spins it ...

Budgie very quiet, fluffed and lethargic, but eats a lot  Our budgie - which is between 7 or 8 years old - has been very off in his behavior for the last two to three months. Normally he is very chatty and sociable ...

Cockatiel keep losing his blood feather  I saw it on the bottom of his cage three times and it's always been the one on the right if you look at him from the back. It looks like the blood dried ...

Feather Problem   Hello My name is Brad Johnson. I am a veterinarian who owns a small animal practice in Nebraska. I have limited bird experience and am reaching out for ...

Budgie Vet Visit & Medication  I took my budgies to the vets as one has been having an eye irriration since 14th December when I first visited.

The eye drops had helped somewhat, but ...

budgie some times wines  Hello I have a 3 year old female budgie, she is molting at this time. She sleeps quite a lot of the time in the day and evening. She some of the time ...

sneezing and feathers for scaley breasted lorikeet?  Hi i have a scaley breasted lorikeet, and just over the past week i have noticed he has lost some feathers, they are in the bottom on his cage also when ...

Pulling out feathers  I have two alexandrines both 3months old, one has a perfect coat and the other birds coat looks rough in patches and he has pulled both his long tail feathers ...

abnormal feather loss   I have an 8 month old Indian Ringneck and he is losing his feathers, he is not molting because its been too long and no feathers are growing back but I ...

budgie pulling blood feathers  my male budgie is not very stressed but is constantly pulling at his blood feathers. we are very worried that he might bleed but he does not want to stop ...

Budgie has a sore foot?  Hi, I've had my budgies for a few years now and i know they sometimes stand with only one foot. But my male budgie, Sunny, isn't curling up or tucking ...

[Love Bird] sits with its head laid back  My Love Bird has started sitting with its head laid back, also weaves its head from side to side at times. The weaving only seems to be when it is waking ...

Shaking of head.   Hi My African grey has been shaking her head like she has something that border her. When she gets a shower daily she does not do it..

Can you ...

My 9 week african grey seems to be throwing up.  Hi i received an african grey as a gift for christmas and i got the bird for 2 weeks now and the person we bought it from told us that the bird is 8 weeks ...

White Lump on birds Foot   Hi my bird canary has a white quite big lump on his toenail and it sometimes bleeds it stands on the other leg i don't know whether or not to take it ...

Featherless Eye  My male budgie has lost a bit of feathers around one of his eyes. I have caught him rubbing that same side against his cage....could that be the problem?...

My cockatiel  Is it normal for my cockatiel(natural color, red cheek)to have a black line under his eyes?

cockatiel not able to lower its head to eat  I have a 4 year old grey/white cockatiel that recently flew into a glass door. He is still able to fly and walk.He acts like his normal self except that ...

Amazon Parrot eats too fast  Hello I have an amazon parrot who is about 10 months old. She is on a pelleted diet (Zupreem natural). Ever since we got her she has had this problem where ...

Dying Canary  We had a 3 year old canary, sex undetermined. Bought a new canary 10 days ago. Put it in the cage with older canary and she tried to pluck its tail feathers ...

Bird with blood around his mouth  Hello last night my bird was sitting on the bottom of the cage in the corner he is a cockatiel is is very much unlike him he looks so I'll. He was not ...

Budgies ate amaryllis  Yesterday evening I entered my room to find that my budgies had taken a huge chunk from my amaryllis bud.

I phined the vets and I was told that there ...

Kakariki losing feathers around the neck and falling from perch  Hi, We took our 1 year old Kakariki to the vets recently due an inability to stay on the perch when sleeping, it is also losing feathers from around the ...

28 year old cockatiel  Hi, I have a 28 year old cockatiel who started to sqawk quite frequently and the feather at the end of her wings are getting scraggly looking. I noticed ...

Renal tumor in keet  I took my 10 yo keet to avian vet yesterday, he feels like he might have a renal tumor as his claw is clamped and he doesnt like to use the leg. He gave ...

Male canary is not right  I have a male canary ducky who use to sing beautifully, it eats an awful lot and can't seem to fly, he tries and sometimes he makes it to the perch and ...

Budgie sneezing  I know that some sneezng is ok, as they ould have dust of seed husks giving them a little iritation in the nose, but my budgie seems to have sneezing episodes ...

Budgie's eye closed  Sorry this will be long, but a background story is needed.

On 14th December 2011 I made an emergency appointment at the vets as I beleived my budgie ...

My cockatiel his eye bothers him  He keeps opening and closing his eye, and when i came home his feathers look like if someone put hair spray, he throw up of course. Im guessing, please ...

budgie birds sore claw  my budgie bird has a sore or blister on the bottom of her claw. she keeps it up and is unusually quit, what can i do.

Conure chewed off him nails, will ther grow back?  Around Thanksgiving my Jenday Conure hurt his foot, it was only a little chord that got tangled, it didn't do any damage. That night he kept chewing on ...

Spits up after she ate her formula  I have an bare eyed cockatoo and I just finished feeding her this morning and i notice that she spit up some formula it came watery out of her mouth she ...

My English Budgie has blood on her wings.  My new english budgie has small amounts of blood at the tips of her wings. A small bit will get on my fingers when i hold her, i also think that it came ...

Black skin on Budgie  We have taken her to a vet and they say everything is fine. She I an Albino with red eyes and black skin. Was checked for blood, crop wash, and everything ...

bird croaking  Hi, i've got a 6 year old parakeet budgie. for the last few years he's taken on a worrisome habit. when he's alone or left to be quiet, he'll start this ...

my umbrella cockatoo  hello my name is diego i have an unbrella cockatoo and for the first three weeks he was ok but now he seem's really skinny and his feather's look all messed ...

Zebra Finch - Eggs  Hello! I have a male and female finch. They've started laying eggs (about 1 egg every two weeks), I got them a nest after the first egg. The eggs are ...

green cheek just not the same since she was stepped on  2 days ago, my husband stepped on our 2 & 1/2 year old green cheek conure when she was walking around on the floor. We took her to the animal hospital,...

sick coketeil?  hi i have a coketeil who shakes all the time he seems happy,eats alot,and seems to enjoy life i cant afford to take it to the vet?
also this bird seems ...

Umbrella Cockatoo Nail Problem  I just noticed this a few days ago, when I had him out of his cage. I noticed on his right foot, front-left nail, it's curled; almost to his foot. (FYI,...

Budgie: Excessive Liquid Waste with Interspersed 'Normal' Waste  I started feeding my four budgies Romaine and Red Leaf Lettuce(usually 1 leaf/day; began about 5 days ago) and noticed last night that they have frequent ...

Cockatiel is not acting normal  For the past week my cockatiel, Baron, has not flown, squaked or let me pet him, even tough he usually does.He normal sits on my shoulder or when i hold ...

Budgie Nutrition in the UK  I have 2 budgies both of who are under 6 months of age.

I am worried that they are not getting enough nutrition because:
1) They are on a 100% fortified ...

One day old Love Bird  Hi, I had a one day old healthy appearing love bird that died after about 36 hours. It was our first to hatch. Still waiting on the others. I did the floating ...

Not eating much lost appetite  My blue gold Macaw age about 6 month, not sure about the sex, weight 885g. Just noticed for couple of days lost appetite, not eating much. stool don't ...

black fingers  the fingers of my finch bird are turning black, some sort of thread was around his leg, what can i do pls?

Something Weird !!!!   I just got a alexandrine Parrot male . he is 1 month old and when we got hi, he was doing well then we feed him apple , cerelac and boiled yellow grams ...

Why is my cockatoo puffing up?  My cockatoo recently started puffing her feathers. Mostly when she sleeps. What would be the cause for this? Thank you so much!!

New baby grey parrot seems to not know how to eat well   Hi I bought a baby grey and he still begs for food , i give him a bowl of fruit chopped up but he seemed to struggle to actual get any down . I gave him ...

end of toe falling off  one of my parakeets toe is falling off! i saw it when clipping his nails i thing it might have been caused by the toy in the cage so i toke it out and ...

.Cockatiels blind eye irratation  my cockatiel irritated her eye when she scratched it and now she is blind. She keeps scratching the eye and irritates it and then there is flesh hanging....

My happy but panting budgie  Hi I'm Serena, I have two female budgies, Maxi and Molly, who have never been with a male bird before. About a month ago, I noticed that Maxi was panting ...

lovebird laying eggs  my lovebird is almost a year old in the last 3 months she laid 14 eggs .how can i get her to stop laying eggs?im afraid of something will happen to her....

My male budgie slammed into a wall...?  Hi. I had my male budgie out about an hour ago with my two cockatiels, and he got startled and flew into the kitchen. I heard a loud thump and saw him ...

Feather Plucking  Hi, my one year old fisher lovebird has started feather plucking, he has a featherless ring around his neck, and down the middle of his back, and around ...

fatty deposit and feather loss  Thank you for taking the time to consider this question. I have a female cockatiel about 6 years old. She acts like she feels fine but for several months ...

afican grey  Hey my african grey died on the 27th of december and I was just wondering if you would have an idea what caused this before he died I heard him screaming ...

The Beak Concern  What do I do when a parakeet's beak starts to fall off (disappear) ?

My lovebird suddently took ill and died this morning  This morning when I came downstairs my black masked lovebird was fluffed up and just nibbled at the treat I offered her. I wrapped her up in a warm felt ...

Feeding for my Indian Ringneck  My Indian Ringneck Parrot seems to always be hungery! He is 9 weeks old and i mostly feed him his baby formula in the morning and at night with a few treats ...

parakeet banging beaK on cage  My parakeet keeps banging her beak on something but i dont know what it is! Why does she keep doing this?? Is it because she is lonley??

eclectus srugging his wings  he shrugges his wings then shakes or quivers them. I am not sure if there is a problem since he does so much mimicinc. he was coughing and worried me untill ...

Cockatiel pulling at his toes and squeeking  Hi, my cockatiel is pulling at his long middle toe and squeeking as if this hurts him. he is a rescue bird found outside but I have had him for over a ...

parakeets molting  My parakeet is currently molting at the moment, but he has become very scared of me, and normally he is never scared of me. Is this normal?

clipped wings  on the second week of october i took my bird ( a budgie) to the local pet store and asked that his nails be cut. they did cut his nails but they also ...

chickens feathers  It looks like my chickens feathers are turing brown and breaking I guess you could say some of them have started falling out on other chickens and it does ...

quite quaker  hello. we buy a quaker parrot 2 weeks ago she is 8 mounths old 1 week she wasn't friendly and try to open her cage I told my kids let her used to us since ...

Lutino cockatiel changing feather color  I have a lutino cockatiel who is about a year and a half old. When I got him I was told by the breeder he was male but I have always believed him to be ...

feather growth  Do birds grow new feathers even when they are not molting? I have a caique who is 5 months old and lately I've been noticing new pin feathers coming in ...

my orange winged parrot frequently sneezes  Hi, I have a oranged winged parrot, (he or she) is nearly 12 years old. For a good few years now he sneezes, a few times every day. He doesn't seem ill,...

bird bleeding.  my african grey is bleeding every so often it is very strong in colour but only a few drops, i cannot see anything on him anywhere, but we cannot handle ...

my birdie layin infertile eggs  my birdie initially laid 2 eggs whch broke n aftr 5 days it started laying day after day about 5 eggs where all r not fertile n as removed 3 ggs it again ...

Budgie behavior  My budgie Goes crazy when we put our hand inside her cage. She fluffs up and wags her tail while nibbling on our fingers. While she is doing this, our ...

Macaw with irritated nostrils.  My blue and gold macaw has red around his nostrils and it appears to be irritated. It almost has a brownish look to it. I'm not sure what it is, but it ...

Shaking  Why is my pet galah shaking ?

hunched over  I have recently gotten 3 budgies and one of them seems to be in a hunched position about 1\3 of the day. The others don't ever seem to be in this position....

New cockatiel  Hi I just got a new cockatiel a couple days ago. And ever since I've had her home she doesn't make much noise at all and I believe she eats when I'm not ...

2 lovebirds died 4 days at home   I purchased a hand feed baby lovebird had him for 4 days was great for 3 days on the 4th was fine before I had been gone for the day about 7 hrs came home ...

african greys feathers  hi i brought a pair of african greys a month ago was told the back of the males neck was plucked due to breeding!! when i asked when the last time they ...

Eclectus female has a new pure yellow feather on her neck  Hi, We have a 3 year old female eclectus (subspecies unknown) which we bought 4 months ago. We are her 3rd owners. Just before switching to her 2nd owner,...

dusky conure's eyes, etc.  My dusky conure was born July 24, 2011 and has recently developed a pinkish tint around the fleshy part of his eyes, nose and the fleshy hinge of his beak....

Parakeet dropings sticking?  I just purchased two parakeets on the 26th. Both young and enjoy each other's company. One is slightly smaller, eats less then the larger but other than ...

bleeding backside  3 month old pet galah bleeding from backside only noticed in last 2 hours.. what should we do apart from take to vet

Won't Fly  I have a 3 year old Green Cheek Conure who we think got a concussion on Saturday, he took off flying and landed on the curtain, then acted as though he ...

tore up chest on female cockatial  my female cockatail laid eggs and one hatched a few days ago,now her chest has lost almost all feathers in large circle like area and the the skin is visable....

Parakeets Blinking is off...  My parakeet seems to be blinking weird. His right eye is completley normal, however the eye seems to blink at seperate times, and stays closed a tick longer ...

Advice for my bird's situation  My bird has been making squeaking noises while breathing for the past day or two. He also doesn't seem to fly around or chirp has much anymore. But today,...

cockatiel with very dry feathers  my pet cockatiel has very dry feathers and i was wondering if there was something wrong.

Cockatiel squaks when preening between his upper wings.  I have a cockatiel that appears otherwise healthy except for something he has been doing for about a month or so. He turns his head around to the back ...

puffed lovebird  puffed lovebird

Swollen Underbelly - Cockatiel  i just adopted a cockatiel and noticed that it has a swollen underbelly where it urinates from. i do not know its gender unfortunately but i do know that ...

drooping eyelid in macaws   I have been having a problem with macaws in an open field avairy. with some not all getting drooping eye lids I have take to vet and run blood test and ...

Budgie vomited  I took my budgie outside with her cage and removed the bottom of the cage so she could nibble on grass in the back yard. I have done this many times before ...

Death of a Parakeet  I have had 2 parakeets for around 10 years. The first one died about a year ago. He was very quiet and did not move much and was puffed up. One night we ...

quaker bird  My Quaker bird about five to six months today I noticed that she does red poop what does this indicate?????

a weird thing thats wrapped in the leg  hello! i got 2 parakeets on november 4, and i just noticed that one of the parakeets (which i believe is a female because of the brown above nostrils) has ...

Lafeber's Pellet-Berries  Are these types of pellets healthy for my cockatiel?

eye  my budgie has sore eye. It is a bit guey and he is scratching it. I rescued him from a couple of boys two weeks ago. I dont know anything about budgies....

Unexpected Death  My mother's Bird, Bailey was a 2 year old Son Conure. Yesterday was the like any other day. My mother lets him out of the cage for a while. He flies around ...

I cannot find a good answer for healthy nacaw poop  I have searched and searched for an answer.
my avian vet is closed today because of the holidays and the emerg line is always busy.
My 5 1/2 month scarlet ...

how to tell the sex of a fancy green cheek conure  how can you tell the sex of a fancy green cheek conure? i want to know before I buy another partner for him/her.

my canary broke its leg  Hi, my male canary got his leg stuck yesterday and blood went down i was so worried but my father tried to help by cleaning its leg and now he (prince)...

He won't eat treats  Four days ago we bought an 8-month-old green cheek conure from a pet store. He eats Zupreem brand pellets, but he has no interest in the "treats" we were ...

my zebra finch   my zebra finch is puffed up and isn't as active as usual what do i do

parrot looks like she is falling forward  parrot lying forward all the time, do you no what is the matter with her she has been doing this for about 3 days.

Something.next to.beak a size of a sultana   Hey I.habe tweleve week.old ecelectus male parrot and their.is.something thwir.browny colour a size of a sultana please your information will be usefuel ...

My parrot is regurgitating violently   Hi,
My parrot has been shaking his head very violently. In the past he would eventually throw up a white ball, but this time i only saw the ball before ...

My Green Cheek Conure Sleeping on both feet!  Hello,

My bird is sleeping/napping on both feet on the floor of his cage (normally he sleeps on his perch behind his towel on one foot). Also, he is ...

why does macaw stand on wings?  why does my macaw always stand on his wings?

redness in skin of society finch  My society finch has dark red skin mostly everywhere on her but she isn't losing feathers and the feathers are in perfect condition. How do I get it to ...

Aspergillosis  My 18 year old Blue and Gold Macaw became sick Aug 14,2010. Numerous trips to my Avian Vet and over the past 1 1/2 years he has been on: Metacam, Albuterol,...

Cockatiel with yellow cheeks?  My cockatiel has yellow cheeks instead of orange is that normal?

hot beak  what does it mean when my bird's beak is hot to the touch?

finch attacked by cat  i bought a finch from the pet store that was scratched by a cat ( so they said) im hoping it will survive, do you think it will it is wounded by the top ...

Parakeet can't turn head  My parakeet seems to have his head stuck in a backward facing position (the position that he normally takes before going to sleep). He tries hard to turn ...

*CANARY* My canary is flicking snot/spit.  He is really unhappy. After an hour he livens up but it seems to be getting worse and its like he has a cold.

He has spit sometimes clear & white-(ish)...

Perching question re: a conure  If a conure is unable to perch, how does that effect his health overall? Or, does it even effect his health? Can he live a regular life without perching ...

Help regarding Budgies ..  Hello, I'm facing a strange kind of diesease in my budgies, mostly my male parrot's are getting affected, they start loose dropping with light green in ...

Love bird Bites toenail off  Hi. i have just bought 2 lovebirds 4 days ago and today have noticed that 1 of them bites at one toenail to the point the toenail is missing. There doesn'...

cockatiel sick?  I have a cockatiel and he is about one year old. is the last few day ive notices that he is fluffed up all the time and also he is constantly sleeping ...

My lovebird is getting grey spots  hi there, my female lovebird is getting grey hair :)

it's just grey spots on her head and wings. The male one died recently and i'm just wondering if ...

Black spots on Canary baby skin!  Hi, I have a red factor baby canary (maybe a boy) born on 25th Nov 2011 and I've just noticed that he has black spots on his skin where feathers used ...

lump under my parakeet's neck  My parakeet has been pulling out feathers under his chin. He usually does this and they grow back. However, I noticed a big lump under his neck on this ...

indian ring neck  my bird was wormed and had a pooh test yesterday that was normal. but today is not him self. sneezing, lathargic, and yellow wee like pooh. question....what ...

poor feather coverage  hey i have a pair of Alex parrots that i got about three weeks ago the female bird has poor feather coverage they do not look smooth like most other Alex ...

Chicken Question  my chicken has lost all her feathers on her belly and she does not lay eggs anymore! Every time she sees a feather she picks it up and puts on her back!...

My finch keeps putting one leg up   Hi, I came home yesterday and noticed that my finch was standing on one leg, when I looked under her I noticed that their is some dry blood by her leg....

gouldian finch twitches a little  My finch has a slight twitch from time to time...He is eating, drinking etc but I have a canary and another finch whom where both treated for air sacs....

There is something weird on my bird.  My canary has a weird feather or grey thing that is sticking out an I dont know what to do.

Pekin cockeral has partially ripped off top of his beak!  Noticed today that my chicken has managed to partially rip off the top of his beak? Obvioulsy is having trouble eating as when he pecks the beak moves....

Why is my parakeet's poop yellow?  my parakeet's poop is light yellow. I haven't changed her food but i have been giving her millet lately. She doesn't like to eat fruit so i don't think ...

Sore Budgie ankles  My Budgie has irritated ankles, slightly swollen and scaly like, almost like excess dry skin, she doesn't have trouble standing but is obviously unsettled,...

quiet and slow  My 5 year old lovebird has become very quiet and slow in the last week, what could it be. He gets enough rest

Sore beak  our rainbow lorikeet has stopped using his beak to climb or eat with. He appears healthy and is still eating his powdered food. There isn't any apparent ...

egg laid?  i saw a white round object in my budgie's cage.is it an egg?and if it is what should i do?

puffed upi budgie  my budgie is puffed upi and has a swollen nose. whats wrong with it?

Duck bleeding through the nose after dog attack  Our mallard duck was attacked by a neighbors dog and she got a bad gash on the back of her neck and the skins missing, and a smaller cut under her wing....

Quaker with short nails and bent toe  Hi, My boyfriend recently bought me a Quaker from a pet store. the bird is approx 8 months old. He has very short toenails on all of his toes. Some toes ...

Balding bird  My 5 year old sun conure is going bald basically everywhere. We have brought him to the vet twice now and nothing has changed. He has been treated for ...

My dove's beak is turning blue...  I've had an albino ringneck dove for about eight years now, he's old but he's in amazing health. He gets millet and baby carrots as treats sometimes, and ...

Grey Baby Parrot sound  We got a Baby African grey parrot a week before the time we purchase from a local bird market here in Kuwait his sound was clear and loud saying koko koko ...

hooked claws  my cockatiel is of 1 month and his claws are like hooks.
his claws are very abnormal,he cant walk properly
so is there any home treatment?
i tried to ...

Baby Galah !  I have a 4-5 month old galah that I just brought. I noticed his quite sleepy and has slimy green poo, I havnt owned galah's before so just wondering if ...

I just got a 4week old cockiteal and he won't open mouth to eat formula  I got a baby cockiteal last night he's 4 weeks old the breeder I got him from said she was hand feeding them I used to raise them when I was little. But ...

Sneezing  Hi, I was wondering if it's normal for my cockatiel to sneeze almost everyday at least once. He doesn't show any other signs that he is sick I am just ...

7 month old Salmon Faverole hen with pale whit bugs around her vent area  I have a hen, one of 9 who for the last week has been setting almost broody, (we have no rooster) but I don't know if she's laying, I don't think she is ...

Tail bobbing and fast breathing.  I have noticed that of a mornjng on eof my budgies sneezes a few times every morning, but do not worry about that as they do not sneeze again until the ...

chronic non-stop molting in cockatiel  My 2 year old female white cockatiel is molting non-stop. I've had her since she was approximately 4 months of age. I also have a 14 year old male and ...

what do i do when my budgie gets a stroke?  please help my 4 year old male budgie has a stroke. what do i do?

Zebra Finch losing feathers  My Zebra finch lost the belley feather and had a swollen feet

my blue naped parrot dead  my parrot dead now around 8 30pm :( and i saw she is dying i dont know what to do is only put him on the basket and stairing there :( im so sad why she ...

Liquid lump  hi my rescue rainbow bird has a liquid lump behind its head on its neck and i am a little worried that it is not meant to be there.

lorikeet losing breast feathers  my scaley breasted lorikeet is pulling out his breast fathers and there are no visible pin feathers underneath. Does he have some kind of disease or is ...

my parrot lost her leg and one wing,now it can't stand.  my parrot lost her wing and one leg,now she can't stand can u please help me.

Scratching and bleeding bird  My lovebird has recently starting scratching his side to the point it is bleeding. He keeps picking at it all the time. Someone told me to put flour ...

My Blue fronted Amazon of 5yrs started making weird movements  My Blue Fronted Amazon of 5yrs old... started making weird movements... shaking and jerking... and weird sounds.

It last only a few minutes... then ...

My dove is limping and not flying  Hello. I have a Eurasian Collard Dove that is limping, and appears weak as he does not fly as much anymore, not even up to his perch to eat his food. Can ...

sneezing and red nostril conure  Frequently I've been noticing that my sun conure has been scratching the part around his nostrils constantly and they now have a distinct pink color around ...

Clip my bird's wings  I am sorry for bugging you, but I'm not sure about something. I was wondering if i should clip my Parakeets' wings. They got out once and almost flew out ...

Is it normal for my cockatiel to have a hole in his cheek?  Hi I have had my cockatiel for a couple of weeks and know none of his history. I have noticed he has what looks like a hole in the middle of his orange ...

macaw cyst above vent  my female blue and gold has a cyst above her vent one inch by one and a quarter. She has laid eggs in the past. Her diet is fresh human grade fruits, nuts ...

Chipped beak  My bird fell of her perch the other day and chipped the tip of her beak. It almost looks like a manually clipped beak, like they do on some chickens. She'...

wing clipping  I have an Indian love bird, it has been flying around in my room, i never cage it, is it ok if i clip the wings now? will it hurt itself trying to fly ...

My Parakeet's poop  My parakeets poop red sometimes. They have been in my home for about a month or so. Sometimes they poop red. it reoccurs every month or so. Is it the food ...

white bump on GCC nostril  My 5 1/2 month old green cheek conure, Daenerys, has developed a small white bump right on the edge of her nostril opening over the last couple weeks. She ...

short whimpers throughout the night  this is a bird we adopted from my mom the bird is 27 years old and has really bonded with my wife and i. we also have a shitzu and black lab .

now ...

Parrot pimple  Taylor is my double-yellow amazon parrot. Last week he had a tiny white pimple between his nares. I carefully cleaned it and it resolved. Today he got ...

Chronic Vomiting in Budgie, please help  I know this is a bit long, but I really don't know who else to ask at this point

Question:
What could be causing my budgie's chronic vomiting?

Details:...

slimy poop  what does it mean when a sun conure has slimy poop?

Depressed bird   I have three parakeet budgies. The two green ones are males, and the yellow one is a female. One of the males has already mated with the female and have ...

parakeet budgie eggs  Does a female parakeet budgie get sad if her eggs dont hatch??

Losing feathers and Dark Brown/Black underbelly  I have a pair of finches. One male and one female. The female seems to losing feathers and had been turning dark brown/black in the underbelly and anal ...

Wings clipped, now clumst in flight  Both my budgies wings were clipped on Saturday.

My 12 week budgie seems fine with flight, but the 10 week one is very clumsy and flies in to the walls ...

Budgie eye bleeding  My budgie is bleeding around the eye very severely and the blood is very red. Before this, he already had infectious eyes. but i don't ahev another spare ...

Budgie not using perches  I just bought a 3 month old budgie yesterday and have set up his cage with 2 tree branch perches of different widths, I have also left in one of the wooden ...

interspecies romance  I have a male canary in a very large aviary style cage. I wanted him to have some company but not another canary male or female for the obvious reasons....

my red rump keeps tilts his head to one side?  Hi I bought a pair of red rumps today and never noticed till I got home that the males head is tilted to one side hes 2 years old what could it be ? I ...

Been to vets, appears to be breathing problem... Advice for medication??  Hello i have previously wrote to you about my cockatiel who i thought was egg bound but is not. Thank you, I have taken her to my vets and they say she ...

male hitting female with open beak  my male and female cockatiel hit eachother constantly with open beaks and they also hiss/make sounds at each other only before sleepin.today the male while ...

foot problems  I have a 28 year old green cheek conure. She was okay until a couple of day ago. Now she seems to have trouble with her feet. She can't curl them for ...

Quaker plucking  My quaker is about 2-3 yrs old and she is a plucker. She will pluck her feathers out until she bleeds sometimes. It breaks my heart. I clean her wounds ...

why does my african grey have a white looking saliva in his mouth   my african grey every day is like chewing and has no food at that time and you see a white mucous saliva in his mouth i dont know if its cause she has ...

Taking my budgie to another country  So my parents told me today that we are going to go back to the Philliphines to visit our family there. But I have 2 budgerigars and I want to bring them ...

the sex of a cocketiel  I have a cocketiel, many people have been telling me its a girl. But som people say that boys whistle and sometimes looks in the mirror. But my bird has ...

Could girl cockatiel be pregnant or sick?  My girl cockatiel is puffy, most of the time. She does not want to fly for the last two days. Her appetitite is normal, (maybe slightly increased) so ...

dark mark on nose, cockatiel  there are two (one each side) spots on the nose band. looks like and extra nostril;. have you heard of this ?

baby gouldian finch  I have a baby gouldian finch that stays fluffed up and both wings are slightly dropped. He does fly and eats but does alot of tucking his head in his ...

African Congo Grey 13 years old Persistent infection under wings  I left my bird in the full time care of an Avian Clinic and a renown expert...for six months... I am sure she did her best, but my bird, Grace' is back ...

colored poop  Why is my. Budgies poop green and not black? It still is white in the center.

My parrot is lost wing  my parrot lost her wings & Feathers tell medicine name and what can i do..my parrot is Indian ring neck Yellow..

Is my cockatiel in need of a check up?  My cockatiel has a swollen, purple coloured cere and her nostril is black and crusty on the inside? What is this, and do I need to take her to my local ...

White face cockatiel minor issues  When ever i go to pet him he always puffs his chest out and fethers come up under his beak and white black and green dropngs? Is this normal




...

Squeaking sound at night   hi i have a budgie about 3 years old and he has been squeaking at night only when i come close to him?

Quiet When It's Very Busy  My bird has been all fluffed up for a few hours and very quiet, while my house is extremely busy and loud. He looks tired and like he wants to sleep. Should ...

skin tag or polyp in the crease of 12 year old macaws leg   While my macaw was bathing I notice a skin tag or polyp in the crease of her leg, it is not discolored, nor does it seem to bother her. It has not been ...

Budgie WIng Clipping  I do not really like the thought of having my budgies wings clipped and restrict their flight, but since getting a friend for my budgie within a week ...

Cockatiel lost balance and energy... Help please!  What does it mean when my cockatiel has lost balance and doesn't have much energy? She still eats, drinks, preens and poos and she can still also climb ...

panting budgie- maxi  hi, im serena

i have two female budgies. one of them called maxi, she is breathing nomally but every now and again she starts panting for a couple of ...

why is my cockatiel losing feathers on his neck?  Why is my cockatiel losing feathers around his neck?

Female Zebra Finch Very Concerned....  I have a female Zebra finch who i've had since the summer and only about a week ago did I notice that she seemed to get very sick... I'm concerend because ...

Galah has fungus on foot and is listless and not perky  I have a galah that is just under a year old. It was a bird rescue galah after being hit by a car. She used to eat sunflower seeds as treats and crack ...

Not using her left leg  I just noticed tonight that my green cheek Conure is not using her left foot much. she will perch with her right leg but holds her left foot up. she can ...

very skninny conure  i have a conure who is very skinny, a little weak, brown/black stool, but eats all the time?? what is wrong with him, thanks

Sick conure (long)  My green cheeked conure has become really quiet(lethargic) around 2 weeks ago (19th nov). We also noticed he is chewing/possibly eating his faeces so we ...

Worried about my 3 parrots catching Air Sac Mites from new Canary  A Pet store gave me 2 canaries recently. One is bouncing around his cage. One is moving around a little to eat, and drink, but it makes a sqeaking sound ...

sneezes  why does my green cheek conure keep sneezing? they are very light sneezes, not accompanied by anything else. I shower with him almost daily, and he sits ...

blood coming from nose on conure  we have a conure who is hand tamed and we noticed some blood coming from her nose, she sneezed and some more has come out what could this be??

budgie eating plastic  budgie of two years bites plastic from its food and water bowls and eats it. They also seem to eat paper. i am not able to find an avian vet for my birds,...

TAG behavior  My TAG, Pepper, is a 3yr old female I purchased from a local aviary a cpl months ago. Great bird. I am curious about her behavior, simply bc my IRN, and ...

bugie with red lump under wing  My budgie has a big red lump growing under the top half of his wing it is about 1cm round and is red. His wing is being held out to allow for the growth....

Help!  Ok, so my cockateail is on the bottom of its cage making a squak noise and is twisting its head all the way around and putting its foot above the wing,...

why does my bird have a big lump under her stomach  my budgie has a strange pink ball/lump under her stomach, it seems to be growing and she can not stand or walk properly on it.

sprained wing?  Hi, I have a new cockatiel baby about 4months old, he seems to fall of perches here and there.. he had a vet appointment yesterday he seemed fine.. today ...

My cockateil...skin flakes  Hi My name is Merete and My cockateil Chico is about 10 mounths old. I bought him at a pet stor and he has been doing fine until i got Arabella my african ...

Ring neck dove cost and health  I found a ring neck dove in front of my house and do not want to let it go because i read that ring neck doves cannot find their way home. I want to bring ...

Budgie quiet and puffed up for most of the day  I recently was given a 9 week old budgie to keep my 11 week one company, but the 9 week old one never or rarely makes any noise and is always puffed up ...

Usually sleepy baby cockatiel  My three week old baby cockatiel began sleeping all day today and yesterday. The baby tiel will even keep her eyes closed when she eats. There is very ...

budgies feathers  why do budgies feather grow upwards on chest his about 4yrs old now

Pionus with a nut allergy?  Hi, We have just taken a Pionus into our home after the owner was unable to take care of him. We gave him some nuts last night, hazelnut, brazil nut, pecan,...

choking on pellets  I (think/hope) that I've recently been successful in converting my flock from an all seed diet to a pelleted diet. I've been taking the transition slowly ...

Dirty Budgie  I got my pet budgie from a pet store and when I got him home he was clean, we've had him for about 2 months now and his head is dirty, especially above ...

Conure's Leg  Yesterday, my fancy green cheek conure fell from her cage. When I went to check up on her, she couldn't step on her left leg. She has been dragging her ...

male and female parakeets fight  I had a male and female parakeet that got along really well. We switched her with a different female. Everything was well until we brought them home. Now ...

ring necked dove with dandruff and sneezing  my ring necked dove has dandruff and is sneezing, help?

13 year old sun conure  How long do you keep a bird hospitalized if her weight has improved and droppings but she still is puffed. Can't I treat her at home. I have already ...

mimi macaw  It seems something is coming out his ear

my alexandrian parakee keeps her eyes closed  My alexandrian parakeet is very lazy and she keeps her eyes closed all the time.what must be wrong with her?She is seven - eight months old.She eats everything ...

Yellow mark on ringnecks beck  Hi,I have a ringneck parrot about 4 mths old.I noticed a yellow mark on it's beck, it looks like the top layer of the beck is worn away. Don't know if ...

How Do I Rehabilitate My Budgie's Wing?  My budgie injured her wing a few weeks ago. The vet diagnosed a fractured radius/ulna (just 1 of the 2) and wrapped her wing up.

We removed her bandages ...

sprouted sunflower seeds  My Indian Ringneck, 'Indiana' is 3 months old. She eats a variety of foods, including fruit, veg, pellets and sprouted seeds. However she only eats the ...

Golden Capped Conure   Every time I pet my golden capped conure, she starts flicking her wings and sometimes does a biting motion toward one of her wings. Is that just how she ...

lovebird chicks  my first lovebird chick is gaining 2-4 grams a day while the other two are only gaining 1. the second hatchling is a day older then the third but ways ...

noise coming from parrots chest  Hi, This morning my bird accidently flew into the shower and got really wet and was quite panicked. He was sitting on my shoulder later and when he would ...

parrot having vitamin deficiency  My parrot having vitamin deficiency and the feathers are fluffed all the time. please suggest me to make my bird healthy and to grow feathers fastly. What ...

my paraketet is lossing feathers  hi i have three different parakeets and they are all in the same cage. the question i wanted to ask is that there feathers all over there body looks dirty ...

eye has white dot  why has my cockatiel got a white dot in the corner of its eye? please and thankyou!

vocals wheezing  my amazon double yellow started about 4 weeks ago with wheezing,he was on baytril for two weeks and the a new antibiotic for six days ,the wheezing improved ...

Traumatized canary  My canary escaped his cage and my small dog and cat were found overtop of him on the floor. He does not appear to have physical injuries, however he doesn'...

Sneeze   My cockatiel sneezed a wet on right in my face should i be concerned?

parakeets foot larger  what do you do when your bird's foot looks bigger then the other almost swollen, and the parakeet also has a yellowish bubble on the same foot

Feathers around the beak of cockatiel  The feathers around the beak of my cockatiel are changing into a brownish red tinged color is this normal?

molting or feather disease  I have a female quaker bird and yesterday adn the day before yesterday she seemed to lose her feather by her ears and now there all gone on both sides ...

Parakeet having seizures  I have a year-old parakeet named Orbie. A few weeks ago, he flew wildly in the cage as I was trying to clean the perches. Later that night, he was sitting ...

Budgie Balding Vent  One of my 4 month old budgies is balding around his vent, he had this when we first picked him up from the store. His stool looks normal in consistency,...

bold head  hi i checked my zebra finches today and i noticed one of my hens has some fethers missing from her head can you help

pekin ducks eye is shut  please help...our pekin duck has been leaning her head and neck to the left side and her right eye is shut...looks like it is watery and she seems to be ...

Growth  My 12-year-old budgie has a growth on her wing - brownish in color. It seems to be growing albeit slowly, but doesn't affect her flying. I was wondering ...

parrots eye  my parrot keeps closing its eye like something is wrong she cant keep it open for more then 2 seconds what do i do or do you reckon she hit it on something....

air in the crop of baby bird  my 14 day old budgies crop continually fills up with air. majority of the time, my budgie will burp itself, but i have found i have had to do it. how can ...

Lovebird attacks self  I have a 4 year old female Creamino Lovebird who started attacking herself a little over 2 yrs. ago, and I am desperately seeking solutions.

She started ...

african grey not using leg  on nov 8th my african grey got spooked & flapped around in his cage, the metal ring dug into his leg & made it bleed.
i took him to our local vet, as ...

partial absence of feathers  I have adopted a pair of ringneck parrot. D female has partial absence of feathers in d stomach region nd d males tail was cut.nd both arnt growng back....

feathers around the throat and chest missing  my father in law brought a pair of galahs 2 years ago the hen had a slight bald spot the size of a 1p but over the last year or so she has lost more feathers ...

Medication overdose?  Pet sitters gave my green Cheek 10x the amount of baytril and anti inflammatories he was supposed to get for the week I was out of town. He seems ok for ...

Fluffy, inactive Budgerigar  I have a male & female budgerigar both about 2 years old. Both have always been very talkative and active.

About a week ago, the male became inactive,...

Changes in color  My fully white parakeets' underbelly is getting darkish, is there a reason for this? I've had it for five years now, and I think it fights with the two ...

Duck with mucus  I took my baby pekin duck out of the water he was swimming in and put him in a little enclosed area on my porch to run around and he started spitting up ...

my bird just died  I just brought home a cockatiel and it started coughing. I thought maybe it was imitating me, but then all of a sudden it just dropped dead. What could ...

Lump on african grey's cheek  My African Grey has a lump on his cheek. He shows no sign of discomfort and he eats and acts normal. The lump is hard and is covered with feathers. What ...

Tail is contracting up and down  Hi, we bought 2 budgies back in September. We thought that they were both male, but they really could be boy and girl too, since they seem to snuggle alot....

Parrot beak  I gave my parrot a toffee..it ws hard..my parrot couldnt break it but i noticed its upper and lower beak was broken from the sides..is it because of some ...

Sick Canary  We have what we thought was a healthy young canary up until a week ago. Brought him to the pet store for a nail clipping and they diagosed him with mites ...

cockatiel starter bird?  is a cockatiel a good starter bird?

baby galah is making a gurgle sound while he breathes  I feed him a hand rearing mix and now while he breaths its a gurgling sound. Is some thing caught in his throat? Or is it normal? His breathing doesn't ...

air sac mite  HI, there:
I got a young male canary which has air sac mite infection. I gave the bird one drop of Scatt on his upper leg under the feather 3 days ago;...

budgie with swollen bum  My budgie has a swollen bum and its turned yellow we havent treated it bad
i want to know what the problem is

baby duck  i've recently adopted an orphaned baby duck, around 2 weeks old.
today though when i have moved him from outside to inside enclosure he just opens his ...

Sunny the Cockatiel and his new room mate Buddy the Conure, Are they getting along?  Hello, My name is Brooke and I have 2 small parrots. One is a male latino Cockateil and the other is a Green cheeked conure I think male also. I'm not ...

Cordon Bleu seems to have an obstruction.  Yesterday my bird was fine. This morning he was eating but seemed to have difficulty swallowing. Kept stretching and twisting his neck. Later he started ...

Lump under wing  We have Quaker that is 5 years old and is a plucker. We discovered a rather large bump under it's left wing. If you run your finger on it he bits at you....

Why do my female finches keep dieing  Hi, I just brought two zebra finches from petco a male and a female; after one day the female went down towards the floor and died. I replace the finch ...

missing patch of ear feathers  Our budgie has a missing circle patch of ear feathers the size of the tip of a small pencil earaser, with slight redness at the outer edge, ear appears ...

what does it mean if ur birds noes is bleeding?  what does it mean if ur birds nose is bleeding?

Bored or Sick??  My male budgie is about 3-4years old. When we bathed him yesterday we noticed feathers missing around his stomach and vent area. I have looked on the internet ...

Love bird and dry scaly skin around neck with no feathers  What should I do? Will light coat of bacitracin work? Am adopting from a friend. Area does not bother him and no sign of mites. Has a cage mate, a parakeet ...

Nostril area pink.  I have a 6 month old Blue & Gold Macaw. He is acting very normal, appetite normal but every so often he itches his nostrils. I notice they are pink as ...

My Gouldian won't Molt.  I have 4 Gouldian finches. Three of them have molted several times. They have beautiful colors! One female has never molted. The feathers are falling ...

Constant chirping, and chewing of leg.  I have a senegal parrot, we have owned her for 9 years. About 9 months ago she started biting her left leg all the time. While she is biting, she is also ...

Why did my crimson bellied conure die?  I had a crimson bellied conure for maybe two weeks before he died. I fed him 1/4 cup pellets everyday that he would chow down happily with fresh water ...

Seed stuck in Linnie nostril???  Hello, I have a Lutino Linnie and some how she has gotten a bird seed stuck in her right nostril. It doesn't seem to be bugging her but it is driving me ...

My two parakeets died and appeared to be wet all over.  I had a parpkeet that appeared to be wet all over and then died a few days later. It did not stay wet. I just noticed it the one day. A few weeks later ...

what does this mean?  my senagal parrot will often lower his wings, open and close his beak making a squeeling noise and walk around in circles? I was just wondering if you ...

plz help :'(  hey, my love bird bit my canary leg. He cant stand on it, hes breaking my heart...and to get him just checked its 60 dollars that i can not afford :$ is ...

10 month old budgie bottom beak split?  Hi, I have just today inherited two budgies from my late Grandfather that I am told are roughly ten months old. In mid September the female started laying ...

How much should my 10 week old lorikeets be eating?  I have 2 beautiful rainbow lorikeets. I have been offering them two heaped tablespoons of dry mix every day (which they never fully finish) and different ...

My finch seems to be sick  I've had my finch about two years and it wasn't until recently I noticed she would either sit at the bottom corner of her cage or sit on the highest perch ...

Lovebird with enlarged black foot  My lovebird's foot is enlarged & black. She had pulled some feathers off her back a few months ago & now seems to have moved to pulling on her foot. What ...

vomiting, non-interactive, lazy, keeps fluffy  I have a slaty headed parakeet at home for 8 years now and it is not keeping well. It use to be very interactive and all the time talking. Now it has become ...

Big round bloody egg sack?  My african grey parrot scared me because she/he had what seemed to be just a big round bloody ball sticking out of her/his rear end. When i checked on ...

Baby Finch doesn't chirp  Hi there,
I rescued a baby finch out of my avery - the mother got trapped in the nest and had died... There was on only one baby left. He doesn't make ...

my socity finch  My socity finch(Feta) keeps on opening its beak. Why is he keep on doing this?

Sick Scarlet Macaw  We have a 9 year old, male Scarlet Macaw. 3 weeks ago began making slight whistling noise from his nose holes; tonight began vomiting, shaking, labored ...

goffin cockatoo blood around ear  Hi, I have a coffin Cockatoo and I noticed around her ear has dried blood, what could this possibly be?

Thank you!

musk lorrikeet shaking  Young lorrikeet, behaves normal but every now and then she shakes. If you cover her with your hand and pat her she stops. Any idea why? Is it just a comfort ...

Iitchy and flakey body  Hi,my name is Natalie. i have a 2 .5 year sun concure, recently i notice his body is very itchy and flaky. About 3 months ago he had an infection and was ...

rainbow lorikeet  my male rainbow lorikeet has like red/brownish sores/scabs on both sides of his mouth,is that anything to be worried about? and what is it?

Is my bird sick?   I just got a Sun conure his name is Tito he is very well tempremented but he keeps his feathers fluffed all the time and he keeps flapping only his right ...

parakeet with broken leg sleeping/not eating  About a month ago, my parakeet mary broke her ankle. We took her to the vet immediately to have it splinted. She has been in an aquarium alone since then....

My Sun Conure is having trouble talking  My Sun Conure appears to be healthy but is suddenly having trouble taking. He no longer makes any loud noises that he was making and can only make soft ...

Lutino Peach-faced Lovebird  Hi, I have a pair of Lutino Peach-faced Lovebird. They totally fine and are active all day. One of them some times keeps of scratching his lower part ...

Rainbow lorikeet  why is my four month old rainbow lorikeets losing most of its wing feathers? Also why does he have a small lump on his upper eyelid?

first vet check up  i just got my first parakeets and i want to know when should i bring them to a vet?

Gel Fuel  Is it safe to burn a gel fuel can in the same room as the birds?

please help, my budgie appears to be hurt but i dont' really know  please help, what do you think this could be:
my budgie seems to be inhaling very deeply for breathing, he is looking too slim, he can't fly much or very ...

young cockatiel picking himself  my young cockatiel is picking at his chest and making himself bleed, i thought it was because he was scare of my young daughter but i seen him do it the ...

Parakeets Perches  Hi, my parakeets beak is overgrown and i'm going to take him to the vet soon, I was wondering what kind of perches are good for their beaks the price of ...

a cut on his foot  my cockatiel cut his foot by fighting with another cockatiel what can i do to help him

Grey African Parrot  I've a grey african parrot ,recently he can't hold food with his fingures !!

Lump on wing  My pekin duck has a lump on the outside of his right wing. It been there for a while, although now it seems to be getting bigger. I haven't noticed any ...

My 9 year old bugie has a lump on his back   Hi, my 9 year old bugie has a lump on his back it is all crusty looking and his feathers don't seem to be growing properly, it's a large lump white & creamy ...

Behavior- Extreme Aggression  My name is Brandon Skinner. My wife, Kristian, and I have had our Green Cheek Conure, Coco, for about a year and a half, but we are unsure of our Coco'...

injured wing or pulled muscle maybe?  hi we have just taken on 2 african grey babies. one of them was flying great when we got her although her landing techniques left a lot to be desired. she ...

Brown stuff coming out of my parakeets mouth ?!  So he was playing with his toy and he went all weird and started nibbling on the toy and brown stuff came out on his toy and hes done this so many times ...

budgie tongue  What should a budgie tongue look like? Mines has what looks like a bumb on the tip.

Thank you

Odd Behavior   Hello, I have a six year old blue parakeet who has been acting odd lately. Usually she wakes up, eat and she's a huge TV fan, so she'll watch TV and play....

pineapple conure and dog  I have a 22 month old pineapple conure. I just moved places within the last month. She's been constanly screaming day in, day out. However within the last ...

watery poop.. and water in eyes of my alexandrine parrot  my parrot puked some amount of water and i saw him having tear in his eyes sometimes.. he also has a watery poop..we feed him on fruits.. wheat,, chillies,...

Young chicken...  I have a young silkie chicken who was recently cornered by the older hens who pecked and battered her. When I found her she looked ok, no broken skin but ...

ringneck and Cockatoo issues  My name is Amy We recently got a 12 month old Sulfer Crested Cockatoo He will take seed from our hand and apple but anything else he will not tolerate....

Pink eye  I was wandering if macaws can get pink eye from humans.

losng color  I have a small yellow parrot with a red mask and red top on his head he is a young bird about a year old and lately his feather look like hes molting but ...

Parakeete  My female parakeete has a slight yellow crust over the top of her beak and along her toes/claws. What on earth could this be? Her male partner does not....

Cockatiel facial feathers changing colour.  My 15 year old cockatiel's feathers just above his eyes are changing from yellow to orange.Is this normal?

African grey chirping while eating  My African Grey parrot chirps constantly when eating. No change in appetite, droppings, doesn't appear to be having respiratory problems, is not listless ...

Is food that tastes sweet or contains sugar is not good for parrots?  Is food that tastes sweet or contains sugar is not good for parrots?

My parrot loves food that contains sugar.he eats too much of sweet food and cold ...

Budgie Wing Problems  My budgie for some reason is holding up one of his wings and it kind of twitches while being held up. His other wing does not do this and I don't know ...

If my parrots nose is torn will it heal?  How many days will it take to heal the torn nose and the broken beak? Well, do we need to give him the saline? This is about a cockatiel's beak and nose ...

Red Nostril  My cockatiel has one red nostril . I'm worried he might be sick. Is he?

Falling off perch  My 13 year old cockatiel keeps falling off of his perch. He appears very nervous. I take him out of the cage and hold him and sing to him. Please help?...

Orange appears after bath - is this normal?  when my Alexandrian parrot has a bath orange appears around his nose is this anything to be concerned about or is this normal.

swollen chest  i have a budgie with a swollen chest that has become prominent. he is not panting with his beak open but his breathing does seem laboured. he is eating ...

yellow head amazon bird feet is swallen?  i have a yellow head amazon bird and her feet looks swallen and im realy werried about her. so im asking if anyone knows what medicine or gel i can buy ...

Itching head and feet  I have a Hanhs Macaw that is always itching his face and head and also chewing on his feet. Is it a diet thing or something I should see a vet for?

sun conure is growing spiky feathers  my 10-year-old sun conure is otherwise healthy, but just recently started growing a lot of spiky feathers, mostly around the back of his head and neck....

liver disease  Buddy, my budgie has liver disease and he's losing the use of his legs. Plus he's out of breath a lot. I've brought him to the vet and she gave him an ...

Ringneck losing feathers  Hi, i have a sky blue ringneck and his name is Montego. My baby... I have a concern about his feathers.

Most of his tailfeathers broke off (including ...

Brand new budgie with oddly shaped feet, discoloration on cere?  Just brought home a new budgie, age approximately 4 months. When I got it home, I noticed her toes/toenails seem oddly curled and the bird does not wrap ...

"Oversized" Beak  My Lovebird has an "Oversized" beak. (Or so my Father said) He said it will die from not being able to eat/crack open seeds beacause when it chews it chews ...

lose of control  i have a 38 yr old cocatoo that was fine yesturday went tog et her out of cage today and she has no control of her legs and wings but looks bright in her ...

Yellow peach faced lovebird is plucking tail and leg feathers!  Hello, I am extremely worried about my Peach-Faced lovebird Juanita. I have been trying to give her as much attention as i can, but i have other things ...

Twitchy budgie   my budgie keeps on twitching her wings and she keeps on tripping on other objects. What do I do?

Parakeet not using his foot?  Okay, so the other night, my parakeet, Artemis, managed to get out of my room. Thus, being attacked by my cat. I threw the cat outside, and got my poor ...

Parrolet Nares  I have a Lutino Parrotlet that got 2 weeks ago and I just noticed that it has 3 nare holes is this ok for the bird?
There are two holes on the right ...

Yellow tail feather tips for my tangerine ringneck dove  Hi, I have 2 tangerine ringneck doves that I just noticed that the tips of their tails are yellow in colour.
Should I be worried?
They were never yellow ...

Ringnecked parrot sneezing and feathers falling  Hi,
My ringnecked green parrot is sneezing,I saw some drops on his beak.
Also his feathers are falling from the stomach,back and leg region.Please help...

Black hard scabs or bumps on lovebirds wings  I had this lovebird a long time ago, and he had these bumps or scabs that would form on his wings. They were usually large and hard and had a certain smell ...

My cockatiel won't talk  My cockatiel bird is almost 7 months old, before i took him to get clipped a few days ago, he used to say "pretty bird", "whatcha doing" and he would sing....

ill cockatiel  hi my 5 years old cockatiel is throwing up looking calm tending to sleep all the time i have no avian vet in my area please help me

Green Stuff on perch  This morning when I woke up I found something green on the perch in his cage. I am not sure if he has gotten sick or if he is sick and his poo is changing ...

18 yo cockatiel with an open wound  This little guy has been through a lot in his lifetime. He faced death several times when he was younger. Now he is 18 years old and it started out as ...

1 year old budgie female appears to be losing its sight  I have an aviary with 5 budgies all female and 3 zebra finches, the aviary is 19'x15'x 9'high. There are a lot of plants in it. Today I noticed my bird ...

hen ill  i have a silkie hen and for 3days now her head is on one side flopping over, ive tried infections to no avail. any ideas

lovebirds riding cockatiel tails  Was wondering why my lovebirds like to ride my cockateils tails

african grey ill  hello, my name is mandy and i am the proud owner of an congo african grey his name is lefkos he has been ill now for almost two weeks as soon i seen he ...

crop is still full after 4 hours  i have an nearly 5 week old ringneck an i was told by the breeder to feed it every four to five hours but i have notcied today wen i went to feed it at ...

MyCanary HELP!  My Canary is itching himself like he is like itching his head a lot and his body. He was itching his head long time ago and my thought putting normal cream ...

difference between wheezing and normal parrot sounds  my parrot has begun to make a new sound, a bit like he is communicating. not sure if this is actually wheezing though as i havent heard this before 2 days ...

what kind of tratments for twirling   my bird is twirling, what can i do for her

african grey sitting on eggs  I have two greys and after mating the hen used nesting box for laying and I seen first egg on Sept 14th,she has remained in box only coming out short periods ...

Mucus production in Galah  I have an 8yo Galah. I noticed yesteday morning he had mucus around his mouth. I wiped it off and he appeared to be eating and behaving as normal through ...

My Amazon has a lump by his rump  My 30 year old double yellow headed amazon has a lump by his behind. It doesnt seem to bother him, its on the soft side. He has a fatty tumor under his ...

A very bald cockatiel  I have 2 lutino cockatiels that are about 6 months old ,one female and one male,the male though is starting to lose hair .Ive heard sometimes its normal ...

eating with side of beak  My ring necked parakeet has been eating with the side of his beak for 2 days. He normally bites his apple with the center of his beak. He is still eating ...

My baby Cockatiel  ok so we breed baby cockatiels. they r around 3-4 weeks and are getting hand fed with baby bird food like normal. But this one baby is scared of movement,...

tail feather plucking  What could be the cause of my female lovebird to pluck her tail feathers

Lots of Stretching  Our 4 month old budgie is stretching his shoulder wings a lot... he doesn't open the wings, just shrugs his shoulders. He shrugs both at the same time....

my africken lovebird eye is waterey what to do  my africken lovebird eye is waterey what to do

eat too much apple  can a half moon conure eat too much apple?

Sick Duckling.  My duckling's head keeps titling towards the side and it is walking weirdly and loosing its balance its eyes also keep closing and it looks very weak. What ...

Feather Plucking eclectus  I have a male eclectus parrot that came to me in bad shape. he was in a very small cage being fed nothing but seeds and never got to come out of his cage....

Choking bird  what to do if bird is choking and the vet isnt open cuz it is in the middle of the night or on the weekend?

My cokateil rubbs his butt on his perch  My one year old male cokateil rubbs his butt side to side on his perch while making a cluking noise has he got worms? is he marking his territory? actracting ...

sick finch  my finch is not doing well he got bare spots an is back and he is barley moving around but he is eating what do i do

6 year old cockatoo lump in soft abdomen  My umbrella cockatoo has a lumb in her abdomen, I took her to an avian vet and they said she was fine. Im still concerned because she has some labored ...

budgie flying funny   my nearly one year old budgie is flying in two walls some times and landing on d floor with a thump , i have two they other one fly,s fine , there still ...

green cheek conure black feathers  My green cheek conures feathers keep getting worse they are black and she has started chewing them all and plucking feathers. We give her fruit and vegies ...

Breeding galahs in Captivity  We have tried everything possible to get our galahs to breed, they have mated but still no eggs,any tips would be much appreciated please.

Sick bird not getting well  my bird is unwell been to vets twice once for xray & fluids, then fluids & anti-botics he keeps vomiting & his poos/wees are clear liquid. the vet says ...

Cockatail cannot fly.  He's one year old. He eats well (seeds), has normal droppings. His feather are perfectly normal. We change his water every day. He's in a very large cage ...

Cockatiel beak trimming  Hi I'm worried as I'm taking my 3 1/2 yr old cock cockatiel to the vet's tomorrow morning to see if his beak needs trimming as it seems long. It's worrying ...

my indian ringneck parrot doesn't have his long tail feathers hes 8 months old why?  my indian ringneck parrot 8 months old and has no long tail feathers just wondering why and will they grow?

cockatiel falling off perch when sleeping  My 15year old cockatiel has started occasionally falling off his perch when he is sleeping. Once or twice a day. He then seems to have difficulty using ...

chowking parakeet?   my parakeet keeps moving his neck up and down like he is trying to swallow something down or throw up.
i dont know what to do i think he may be chowking?...

bugs on my budgie  there are some small thin bug things on my bird with like a green/brown body color.

My bird died... I dont know why.  I have a 7 month old green cheek conure name d Spirit. He died last night and i felt horrible. The only thing thtas making me super curious is how did ...

Injured leg  I came home tonight to find my parakeet hanging upside down. Not an unusual sight, but this went on for about a half an hour. I took a closer look and ...

Cockatiel's Lost Voice  My cockatiel seems to have lost its voice. It tries to scream and can't chirp. What could be the problem?

one of my canary look sad then the other ones   i have three canary and two of them look good but one of them sit in the bottom of the cage looking all sad......i don't know what to do i want to make ...

Nose discharge  my bird flakey discharge from in the middle of his nose and a flake of stuff fell of his beak.

why does my bird grab his leg?  i have a male cockatiel that likes to grab his leg and make noises. he does this every once in awhile and i'm not sure if he's being playful or not because ...

Zebra Finch is missing feathers and more!  Ok, so all of this seemed to happen literally overnight. Just yesterday, my female zebra finch had all of her feathers and was doing just fine and dandy....

scratched eye?  when i got my parrot up this morning one of her eyes closed over she was fine when i put her to bed last night. could she of scratched it in the night?...

nervous bird  I just got a 6 yr old Timneh Grey...Shes is a very good bird except she never sits still she is moving all the time and fast..almost like running..she ...

My budgie is sleeping too much  I've been watching my budgie lately, he's about 6 years old now and he's been a little puffed up and eating lots, then sleeping throughout the afternoon ...

My budgie keeps picking and grooming at its butt  My budgie keeps grooming itself (mostleg its butt) and its constantly doing it

budgie signs  I always wonder if my female bugdie is pregnant, but I don't know how to tell. Can you give me some pregnancy for bugdies signs? Like I said I don't know ...

parakeet eating paper  my birds usually chew paper,i don't know they are eating the paper or they are just shredding it.is it harmful?

Lovebird Chick's Eye  I'm hand-raising two 3 week old fischer's lovebirds and one of them seems to have something wrong with one of its eyes. The right eye looks as though it'...

don't know my bird sex type  hey my bird is pure white cockateil and i don't
what sex type it is and it looks like got a bit of the pies in there

canary an air lump under the wiing skin big lump  big lump under the wing skin canary

poop  my budgie wont poop properly what do i do?

RI Red hen's feathers turn white after death  Hello. I was wondering if you could explain to me why my hen's feathers turned completely white after a traumatic dead. (by a hawk or coyote)This bird ...

Parrots toe is limp?  I have A mustached parrot and his toe is limp. he holds it up off his cage and my finger. it stays straight and doesnt hurt him to the touch. is somthing ...

cockatails possibly sick  my friends cockatail looks like it has a sore that is scabing or looks like food is stuck on tonque never seen this before and not sure what it is any ...

my parakeet feet seem odd  ok for the past few days it seems to have gotten worse we ahve had this bird for nearly 8 years or so any where it looks like his right front toe is turning ...

Parakeet Might Be Sick  I have a 5 year old parakeet that has been regurgitating clear liquid. Is their anything I can do for him as in medicine means or is their anything at ...

African Grey post mortem  Hi, my much loved African Grey has just died at the age of 4 after a brief illness. We didnt take him to the vet straight away and we didnt have a post ...

parakeet wing  my parakeet's wing is shaking too much,what should i do?

Weight on cockatoos  I have 6 cockatoos, 5 goffins and a citron. I weighed them the other day and here is their weight per bird. I was wondering if these are good weights ...

sick lori  I have found a sick sick lori in our backyard he cant fly anf looks unwell..he is an adult and still has all his flight feathers . what should i do

What caused my Cockatiel to die?  What happened to my Cockateil? Took him to the vet on Monday. He got a beak trim and vitamin A shot. Before we got him home, he started breathing heavily ...

Love Bird Attacked  Our love bird was in his cage and somehow, we think a cat must of jumped onto the cage or something, but it seems as though a claw went through his head....

sudden death in cockatiel  I had a beautiful lutino female cockatiel for five years....I got her from a rescue and they told me she was about a year old when I got her, so that would ...

Skinny Galah  hello
my female galah I've had for awhile now has lost alot of weight. She's really light when i hold her & i can feel her bone on her chest when i pat ...

head twitching  Hello, I have a one year old GC Conure. About a week ago I noticed that he has a little head twitching going on. Almost like a person with a tick.

He ...

lovebird lethargic  My lovebird seems very lethargic after getting his beak trimmed down at the vets yesterday. What could be wrong?

parakeets toes facing the wrong way  my parakeets back toe is curled under the front toes and i do not know what is wrong with it

Lorikeet preening and screeching  For a couple of days now whenever my 3 year old rainbow lorikeet preens himself he often pauses and screeches as well. He seems fine overall, but I can'...

cockatoo birds   My cockatoo bird has been having problem cant poop and anus looks inside out..what should I do to hekp her

bird exposed to gloss paint  my budgie was exposed to gloss paint fumes a week ago, he was very ill but seems to be getting better although he has not fully regained his balance. i ...

Bird nails  My canary's nails are very long. How do I trim them?

cockatiel eye problem  I have a 28 year old cockiteal that has a white spot in his left eye ( the vet says that it is in the inside under the cornea) and keeps it shut all of ...

cleaning cages  First let me thank you for getting back to me about my grey and his ruffled feathers. I appreciate it.

I am taking him to the avian vet on Mon. And ...

african grey feathers illness?  my 19 year old african greys feathers look kind of fluffed up and kind of turned sideways. It's hard to explain. My other grey is 18 and looks fine. Are ...

Bird plucking tail with constant bleeding and scabbing  Our female African Grey, 9 years old, will not stop pulling out her tail feathers. She has none. As soon as they start to grow back, she pulls them out....

budgies eyes  female budgie, and every once and a while her eyes will go almost white and she will not move or if holding her she grabs on very tight and leans into ...

Baby Chick Born with no eyes  I have a two day old baby chick we just noticed she has no eyes. I cant. Get ahold of my vet, and I am wondering what or how this could have happened. I ...

Budgie with white .... errr??   I was given a budgie just over a week ago so I don't know his history. I can tell he's fairly young (I was told he was young but not how young). He's ...

sudden death of my Quaker, from Tina   Hello. My Quaker, Petro (Peter), just died today. For 4 hours he wasn't very well and then he just died. He let out 3 peeps and died in my hands. He couldn'...

2 parakeets, one broke it's leg.  Sprite, my green budgie flew into my cieling fan a little over a week and a half ago, since then my other parakeet sprinkle has begun to pick on her, she ...

3 month old Sun conure beak swelling.   I have my beautiful 3 month old sun conure for about a month now, Im worried about its beak, because the left upper side of his beak is kind of swelling,...

broken leg  hi does budgie have bones in thier legs and if so the how to fix a broken leg. none of my budgie leg is broken im just curious

hurt wing?  Our parakeet was flying around and hit a window a few times. Now instead of flying, she is only hopping. Should we do anything for her? Can a hurt wing ...

Gouldian finch paralysed  We have a gouldian finch and a zebra finch, both male. I went up to the cage today and the gouldian was on the floor of the cage looking like he was asleep....

my bird sneezes  hi , i got a lorikeet a few weeks back and she sneezes a lout ! more then i think is normal. she might sneeze 48 times in one hour. i dusted my room and ...

Lovebird - scratching?  My peachfaced lovebird appears to be happy and healthy apart from she scratches quite a lot. Other than that she is chirpy and active. Her feathers appear ...

keeps tilting his head back  My bird for the last 3 weeks has been constantly tilting his head back a puffing out his neck feathers. He seems to be doing it all the time now. Is his ...

gouldian finches  can their cage be placed in front of a window

my white dove neck started turning back and it loses his balance and fall why  why does my dove neck started turning all the way back and it loses it balance why

birds stroke  what to do to prevent or cure bird stroke?

my pigeon hurt his neck  my pigeon got attacked by a cat he was walking but wouldn`t fly now he can`t walk and can`t hold his neck/head up. What should I do.....?

Cockatiel's nail  Hi. I have a male tiel (4) whose nail seems to have broken and does not grow back. The nail is still there. It also points upward slightly. It has ...

African gray has birth defect nose is crusted  My sister gave me her african gray and ever since she got it the bird always had a crusted beak with snot a few times a day the person she got it from ...

budgie standing on 1 foot  My parakeet stands on 1 foot and in my care sheet, it says that if they do that, there sick. And also, When my female budgie gets close to my male one,...

budgie unwell  my budgie is bald around her bottom and is unwell wot can i do?

Budgie always eating  Hi, my budgie (age unknown because it was found; over 5 years for sure) is constantly eating. Every time I go to give him more seeds, he jumps to the bowl ...

My lovebirds rectum falls out when she poops  Hi, my lovebird could not poo for a couple of hours - when she would press to get it out, her rectum would stick out, but then go back in, without any ...

Gouldian Finch favoring one leg  I have a pair of Lady Gouldian Finches. one has a orange head male, female has a red head. I have had them for one month. the female laid one egg, after ...

Bird Wound and pecking  my lovebird wont stop pecking his wound that he has under his wing what should i do? that wing also looks a little bit bigger than the other.

baby cockatiel has poop stuck to butt is he getting sick  I just purchased an eight week old baby cockatiel and he is bright eyed, not puffed up, alert, but his poop is sticking to his butt. It is normal green ...

9 week old Eclectus  i was wondering how much a 9 week old eclectus should sleep? i know the 12 hours at night but how much during the day??

thankyou

Bald Spots under feathers  I have an Indian Ringnecked Parakeet that has small bald spots on each shoulder (not even visible unless you push feathers aside) and also under his wings....

IRN not using foot properly  Hi, Last week we bought 2 Indian Ringneck Parakeets. We have a green one who is 4 months old and a blue one who is 3 months old. Both birds were fine ...

Juvenile Muscovy  My girlfriend bought two muscovy from her work and they have grown very large. One has a full wing span of about three or four feet and the other still ...

mockingbird with no feathers on neck  how can we get our mockingbird to grow feathers on his neck? raised him from a baby and would like to release him healthy.

sick bird  7 year old female cockatiel 3 days ago had hiccup symptoms and would walk in circles. yesterday she slept constantly, wont eat, or drink. today she is ...

duck voice getting quieter and quieter  I do not have a parrot but a house duck. If you can help me, great. If not, please direct me to someone who might.
I do not have a great deal of money ...

two baby cockatiels questions  Hello, I've bought two new cockatiels 2days ago and they seem perfectly fine, however the 4week old one doesn't seem to eat from the pot as well as the ...

My canary's foot is swollen   My canary's left foot is swollen and it was bleeding before. What's wrong with it and what should I do?

bird eating of food from floor  hi, I have 2 parakeets. My female keeps eating the seeds of the ground is that normal?

African grey chest bone sticking out  i have an african grey hes about 5 month old is it normal for it to have the chest bone sticking out as in its very skinny.... is that normal?
(we do ...

cut on chicken's neck  my sisters chicken has a cut on the back of it's neck were keeping a close eye on it & we are going to get some bird anaseptic hear are some resons that ...

Dog broke bird's nail  what can i do if my dog broke my birds nail?

budgies nostril enlarged  hi there, one of my budgies nostril hole's has gotten extremely large, is this a problem and does it heal?

bleeding bird  My bird flew into the window and it now bleeding above the nose and above the eye what do i do?

Lovebird Has Dislocated Hip  My peachface lovebird has a dislocated hip. What can be used to hold the hip in the socket so it can heal? My vet said it is very hard to tape a little ...

how to tell age of scaly lorikeet  I have a rescued scaly breasted lorikeet. He appears to be a baby. He has a slightly darker beak than an adult. He has mostly adult looking feathers, but ...

Cockatiel pulled stitches out of his eye lid  My cockatiel cut her lower eyelid and recently had surgery to stitch it up. This was about a week ago. However I just noticed that tonight she has pulled ...

Semi-bald parrotlet  I recently (just over 4 weeks ago) purchased a female parrotlet to pair with my male (who lost his mate a little over a year ago). I have not yet introduced ...

Lovebirds nose turns to brownish from white.  Greetings! I have a less than 2 year old female Lovebird. I'm noticing that around her feet there's a development of white substance it looks like fungus....

Finch with lump on foot  What is a lump on the foot of a bird?

red bump beside my amazon's nostril  Hello, I have a wonderful 4 year-old blue fronted amazon named Sunny. She has never had any health issues, however, today I am noticing a fairly swollen ...

Parrot bond  Hi, I'm getting a Senegal Parrot but, right now I have a Quaker parrot. He's one years old. I was wondering if I could be able to make them bond with each ...

my Budgie beak  hi im angelica
my bird has white stuff around his beak do you know what it is and is there a medicine for it?

Amazon dark runny stools  My blue front amazon has developed stinky, dark, runny stools. Really nasty.

dark runny stools  My blue front amazon has developed stinky, dark, runny stools. Really nasty.

albino budgie acting werid? Not sure if male or female..  I got two budgies from two different pet stores about four weeks ago they were fine and love each other and hate being seperated. I have a boy with a pink ...

Lovebird Red irritated Skin  I have 2 lovebirds, about 8 yrs old. One is fine, the other one seems to get red skin under its feathers a couple times a year. It comes and goes. This ...

Feather lose on rump  A cockatiel hen & a Lineolated hen. Both have lost all feathers in rump area. 2 different buildings. Both of their mates are fine. Any Idea. Help please....

My parrot has a little bit of white stuff in eye  My baby 5 week alexandrine parrot has trouble opening his right eye as there is some sort of white tissue at the top? How do I fix this

chick unable to stand  hi i wonder if you could help me,
i received a baby chick born yesterday, its legs bend at the sort of elbow joint but its feet are pointing upwards and ...

african grey toe  hi ,im after a bit of advice regarding my african grey babies toe , it points the wrong way , the grey is now 9 weeks old and i have only noticed it over ...

Scared cockatiel  I have a 7 month old cockatiel, he was tame when I purchased him, but then he saw the hawks and big birds outside, have him on the side of the window now ...

Continuous growing wing feather  Our pet Blue Fronted Amazon has a secondary covert wing feather that is growing continuously. It now extends well beyond the end of the primary feathers....

Cockatiel stressed out after beak trim now limping  i took my 5 year cockatiel to get his beak trimmed yesterday at the vet and as usual he didnt like it and seemed stressed out. however when we got home ...

Indian Ringneck   My white indian ringneck lost all his feathers and is growing hard white lumps around his beak. He is still eating the same amount of food as before and ...

laying eggs  WE have a female sun conure that lays an awful lot of eggs. Back in June she layed about 7 and now shes laying again and on her 5th one. This time I'...

what does my cockatiel have  She itches alot her tail feathers look horrible some areas her feathers look thin she held her wings up and whistled real loud looking at her wing like ...

wing problem  wing problem
by: Peter

Hello DR B.

When I took the bird to the vet they did alot of test for infections and said the bird is very healthy. the ...

fungal infection  i have 2 african love birds ! i just gave them bath while cleaning their cage after few days one of the bird started to itch its head ! we took it to the ...

African grey has a growth on its face  I have a twenty five year old timneh grey that developed a growth above the beak last summer. We took him to the avian vet and she thought it was a bacterial ...

scratched baby ringnecks eye  I have a baby ringneck bird that is about 3 weeks old!! this morning his eye was closed, and when he open it, it looked like it was scratched or poked ...

Hair loss   My cockatoo keeps scratching his head, he started loosing his hair and sometimes bleeds. What can we do to prevent this from happening?

white lump  today i saw a white lump on neck of my baby sparrow what to do now?

white lump on neck  today i saw a white lump on neck of my baby sparrrow..what is it ??

Dry skin and eating habits  Rex is almost 16 years old. He is a green amazon parrot. the poor guy is itching like mad and I am concerned for him. I give him spray baths but he still ...

Female SI eclectus with yellow stripes on feathers  Hi - I have a female SI eckie. She has recently seen an avian vet for her annual check up and everything was good including a gram stain test. But she ...

My nanday has a lump under his wing on his side  My mom and I really don't know what it is. We have a book but its from the 80's-90's, so we don't know if everything is up to date. Anyway, he lifts his ...

oil on tailfeathers  my bird flew into a non hot pan of oil n got tailfeathers oily ,what do i do ?,can i leave it ,wash it ,will it hurt or affect my bird ,its also flightlass....

Budgie having seizures   Please can you help? We have an old budgie, he was my partners before we met and he is about 15 years old! He has always flown freely around the house ...

Budgie does not appear to have control over back toe.  Hi, My budgie suffered from "Bumblefoot" a few months ago and I gave him antibiotics and plenty of green vegetables to help him recover. He appears to ...

My cockatoo keeps lifting his legs?  2 1/2 wks ago I had my cockatoo's nails trimmed, now he keeps lifting his legs?

Injury.  Hello. My budgie's leg has been sprained for 1 week and it doesn't seem to heal. He moves it to the side, tries not to stand on it and limps. When he sits ...

Parakeet plucking feathers from butt  My parakeet has no feathers around her butt and the feathers she does have has poop stains on them. is their something wrong

Sneezing leading to Death  My 18 year old cockatiel got up yesterday morning just like any morning, ate cereal with us on the patio and had a calm typical day.

But last night,...

bird humps mirror   why dose my bird humps the mirror and then eats the white spray stuff that comes from him? do i need to get him a female bird?

Canary Limp Leg  My canary's left leg is limp and his left wing does not appear to be moving. Do you have any idea of what could be wrong?

biting of leg  My ringneck started to shake his one leg and also bites it. I do not know if he started to shake the leg because of an injury or if the injury is because ...

My GCC slept all day  My 1yr old green cheek conure slept all day today. He is usually very active and chatty but today he stayed in his little tent and did not want to come ...

Was my parrot ill drom the breeder?  I bought a 14 week old Indian ringneck last sat. He died suddenley 4 days later. The bird had runny stools the whole time i had him and did't eat for the ...

female crested cockatoo in heat?  Hi, My female crested cockatoo is 6 yrs old. I've had her for around 6 months now. she warmed up to us quickly, she has been showing signs of being "in ...

sun conure sudden death  My sun conure, Shamus, just died a few hours ago and I have no idea as to why. He was fine all day his typical active, chewing, screaming self. I cooked ...

one side of face injury including on a wild blue jay  i have a blue jay in my yard and he has a big bubble on one side of his face. that same side seems like the eye is either swollen shut or his eye is missing....

Sexually Mature Pionus noise?  I have a (female?) Bronze Winged Pionus about 3 years old. Recently she(?) has started doing that weird cluck-y wing shake-y call non stop. Literally ...

Yellow spots on cockatiel  Hi, I have a lutino, and I have noticed a few (small) yello spots on the bottom of his right feathers. His droppings have not changed and he is acting ...

baby budgie  Hey, i recently bought my first budgie he is 11 weeks. i have never had a bird of my own before but my mother has a blue headed green amazon parrot, but ...

Dirty looking substance around nostril holes  My 2 year old Double Yellow Headed Amazon has the slightest darkening substance around her nostril holes... I can not rub it off... and she is healthy ...

my cock tail bird has a brownish bump on his eye  My bird I had him since he was Little 14 years now and he has a brownish bump on his eye on the left side of the eye ball and Im very terrified so Please ...

lumps on bird feet/legs  she has these lumps there soft and you can see the veins have only appeared in the last week that i have noticed as she cannot use her legs now? also the ...

dove wheezing  Hi I just got a pet dove recently and I have noticed that after his coos there is a small wheezing noise he makes and I'm wondering if that is something ...

canary droppings smell  my canary droppings smell but my canary seems healthy

painting cage...  Hi I have purchased a second hand cage and it looks rather well used, I was wondering if it was safe to spray paint it,I am getting a rainbow lorikeet....

Gouldian Finch. Blood under skin  Gouldian Finch. Was fluffed up and sitting on the avairy floor quite a bit. Was often seen flying to perches but appeared to be not an easy manouvre. I ...

Indian Ringneck Parrots babies die  My Indian Ringneck Parrot pair have been sitting 5 eggs - the parents are aobut 11 years old and have breeded successfully in the past - they both have ...

cockatoo with watery poop  We just bought a 2 yr. old cockatoo 5 days ago, today I noticed his poop is very watery. Is this a sign of illness? Or could it be his food? The previous ...

Conures mating constantly=no eggs...ever  I have two conures, Male (Jack-Jack) is a sun conure and the female (Violet) is a jenday conure. I got them both 3 years ago. They are both free roaming,...

african grey falling off perch  hi my parrot falls off hes perch alot i was told by pet shop it may be calcium def so i bought powder to give him and since he hasnt been doing it as much ...

How much should a 4 mnth old umbrella cockatoo weigh?  I just purchased a 4mnth old umbrella cockatoo, still hand feeding once a day but cant seem to get it to eat supplemental foods like pellets,fruits,vegis ...

tiny black and red insects   hello this morning i was looking at my budgies i have 8 budgies as i was looking i noticed that there were realy tiny red colour and black colour insects ...

What is appropriate fluid to use for emergency to cleanse open wounds?  This is not an emergency. I want to have the appropriate fluid available in case of an emergency. What fluid is appropriate to cleanse an open wound ...

my baby greenwing macaw is 4 weeks old and has a toe tip that is turned out  our baby greenwing macaw has a toe nail that is turned outward. Any helpful advise would be greatly appreciated.

Gender  My lovebird puffs up fequantly and I just found him outside on my sidewalk 2 days ago.Since he puffs up is he a boy trying to defend his territory or is ...

My new pet cockatiel sleeping too much and seems inactive  Hi, I bought a two month old cockatiel 5 days back. It was initially very scared. Now it is no more that scared but it sleeps a lot. Most of the time ...

African grey parrot  What to do if a parrot keeps closing his eyes and has loose motions?
(we showed him to a vet and he prescribed Vimekat which didn't work at all. Before ...

Baby Pigeon can't grip  Hello, We found a around 4 day old baby pigeon and have been hand raising it for the past 4 weeks - hes doing really well and is almost ready to fly!...

my cockateil died unexpectedly  is avocado bad 4 a cocateil, its the only thing he had that was different

Budgie bald around anus  My budgie has started balding around his anus for around a week. What could be wrong with him?

swollen/ scabbed eye?  My bird has been in a condition for at least 5 months. He is a Zebra finch and flies completly normal, like before he got a condition. He has a scab over ...

my bird is too weak!  my bird is not moving, she's been sitting on the bottom of the cage.. she laid an egg yesterday and is very lazy since morning. She is also losing balance....

Cockateil Throat Flutter  I have a 4 week old cockatiel and it always flutters or kinda vibrates its throat. Especially if its resting. It'll close its eyes, open its beak just ...

Blood vessel damage in eye of my Congo Grey  Hi Doctor, My Congo was frightened for some reason while on top of his cage, and had rough landing. I noticed that when he went back in the cage, he apparently ...

Mourning Dove eye  I have a mourning Dove that on occasion itches one eye and then closes it..Itches under her eye and top of her head. Do I have a problem.?
Eating is excellent,...

indian ringneck swollen eye  my ringneck has a badly swollen aya its nearly 1.5 years old and a dear to me... please give me adviceas to how to treat it... i took it to my vet but ...

female timneh plucks the male  my female timneh plucks the male, why? she does it very nicely and obviously the male consent to this, is there a reason why?

Cockatiel with red eyes and nostrils.   Hi! I have a 6-months-old, possibly male, lutino cockatiel. He's molting, by the way. It's been about 4 days that I've noticed that his left eye's eyelids ...

Birds with fleas?  Why does my bird scratch its head with his foot?

Gouldian Red-head Male feathers changing  Hello, For the past week, I have noticed that my male red-headed Gouldian Finch had his head-feathers becoming increasingly white. He seems to be behaving ...

my parakeet has blood on his chest  well i noticed a patch of red stuff on my green male parakeet (fernando) chest when i went to go tell my mom and she came to see he didnt have blood on ...

1 yr+ Timneh started doing the baby bird hunger cry...  We have 2 Timneh African grey parrots, Teancum, a 7 yr old male and Abigail, a female just over a year old. About 2 weeks ago the Abigail started becoming ...

Green Cheek Conure pink or red eye   Hi i have a 13 month old female green cheek conure and about 2 weeks ago she got a pink eye, its on the top of her eye one eye is more pink the other one ...

Cockatiel Chicks with a wierd lump  I have two chicks and one has what looks like a lump of seeds stuck in her throat about the size in diameter of a dime in her thoracic region. Is this ...

Estimating Age of Male Eclectus  We have a male eclectus who is most likely a Grand Eclectus(he's about 14 in. long from head to end of tail). We acquired him a couple years ago as a rescue,...

What can I do to help my maroon bellied conure gain weight  My maroon bellied conure (17 yrs old) is losing weight steadily. Is there something I can do to help her gain weight. She is not ill - according to vet....

Budgies foot seems paralyzed?  This has happened in the last few days. The leg is still funtional and "Sparkle" is fine but the foot looks limp? Still attempts to use though and gets ...

protrusion out of my cockatiel's head  There is a small, grey, protrusion coming out of my tiel's head that is rounded--is it the shaft of a feather? It looks like bone

Budgerigar tumor prevention  Is there anything that we can do at home to prevent budgies getting brain/other tumors? And what are common illnesses and the symptoms in budgies?

Parakeet seems sick  My parakeet is sick...obviously so. She is fluffed and listless. She had feces stuck to the feathers near her vent. I gave her a warm shower and held ...

eclectus parrot chewing on leg  My eclectus parrot has recently been chewing at the top of her leg(where the feathers meet the leg)causing her to bleed large puddles of blood. She does ...

bubble on cheek  Hello, This question is about a male Zebra Finch. Our bird has developed a "bubble" on his left cheek under the left eye, and it just keeps growing more ...

Pink Eye- African Grey  I have Pink Eye, Conjunctivitis; is it possible that I have given it to my African Grey? I handle him often, and I am worried I may have infected him. He ...

Zebra-Finch (Not an emergency)  I came home one day and my zebra finch's leg was twisted. she had a little pink thing (they put it on the birds at pet store. diff colors, but mine was ...

Dying at the Vet's  My family's bird died at the Vet today. They were clipping his nails and he chocked on his own vomit. How can this happen?

Indian Ringneck Parakeet with abnormal lose of feathers  My Indian Ringneck parakeet has lost all of its tail feathers, and now is starting to lose its flight feathers. It looks like it was about weaned and ...

Manicure chemicals harmful to Cockatoo  Is manicure chemicals harmful to cockatoo? She is not in the room with them but in an adjoining room. Thank you very much

finch feathers discoloured or changing colour - unsure  my very white male finch appears to be changing colour from his low back through his tail feathers - they are turning fawn - ish, almost a pink ? When ...

my finch is losing its feathers  my pet bird finch what i have is losing its feathers can anyone tell me what is wrong ... ?

Budgie bites his nails  I have a pet budgie in which I bought about 2 months ago. About 1 1/2 of a month later, (3-4 weeks from today) he started biting his nail on his right ...

Gouldian Finch died suddenly  My pair of Gouldian finches just had 3 out of 5 eggs hatch yesterday (Sept 13, 2011). This evening my male died suddenly and I have no explanation for ...

10 day old cockatiel died, can you tell me why?  My tiels laid 5 eggs, 2 hatched. The first baby to hatch the parents took care of, fed, brooded and the baby was growing fine. I had to pull the second ...

my duck   my duck wount eat and has some white stuff in his mouth what does that mean?

Parakeet's right foot is unable to move or grasp perch to stand  my parakeet's right foot is not able to grasp perch to stand. He supports himself on the perch with his working left foot and right leg but his right claws ...

Canary has loss of feathers around the neck and on the wings  Hello. I recently moved and the people here before me left their canary. I recently noticed that she has a ring around her neck that has no feathers, I ...

Open Sore On Lovebird's Wing  Hi, I have 10 Lovely Lovebirds & one of them has an open sore on one of her wings at the top which is making the lower wings go a bit haywire. I haven'...

Bach remedy  Am I alowed to give my jardine parrot Bach medicine remedy.?
He is moody , bossy , jealouse, angry and hormonal. He bites if I come near his favoutite ...

Swollen Tushie  My yellow-sided conure has a swollen and red bum. Why could this be? What can I do to help him?

Runny stool in nesting female  I have a year and a half year old female budgie who just laid 5 eggs two weeks ago without a mate. Besides the fact that most of her time is spent sitting ...

my budgie sitting very low on her perch   hi, does anyone know why my budgie is sitting very low on her perch? she's kind of sitting with her bum a little bit up in the air and got her head down ...

Jolly's drooping wings.  I have a green cheek conure. I took him to the vet a month ago and they said he was fine but the vet never actually came into the room at all. Just the ...

Hole in Parrot's Skull  i have a male indian ringneck parrot that is approximately 7 years old. the vet scraped away some sebum like material at the site (about pencil eraser)...

sulphur crested cockatoo died  Is it common for a sulphur crested cockatoo to die at the age of 23 after a seizure?

my bird is falling  i have a 7 year old pirikit (don't know if spelled correctly)lately it has fallen in its cage with its head facing the other way like it's having a seizure ...

chickens  i have 19 chickens but about 3 days ago i had 21. one is ill and a bantam is looking a bit poorly as well. for the first bird, it stopped eating and soon ...

Parrot let missing feathers  I have a pacific green parrot let I brought from a breeder through a pet store 4 years ago, she still doesn't have feathers on her chest just down but ...

African grey lost nail  My African grey is missing a nail. I'm not sure how this had happened. She seems ok an is acting as she normally does. She let's me touch it. There is ...

blue quaker parrot with red skin?  My blue Quaker is moulting i believe but he scratches a lot and i looked at his skin and it was red? his head is in the process of moulting with the white ...

Fischer Lovebird with no tail  Hello, I have two fischer lovebirds that came from the same aviary. My male lovebird has no tail. He still sings, plays, eats and is very active all around....

birds wing injured?  someone gave me a cockatiel
and it was in cage by its self for months in a room by its self when i take it out i have to force it out it afraid of my ...

Lovebird has drooped head  My lovebird is about 12 yeard old, for about a month his head is drooped over to the side, almost touching ground. He is still able to eat and drink, but ...

B&G Macaw sometimes strains to poo - avian vet says he has prolapse  Our 25yr old B&G eats fresh fruit, veggies, cooked legumes, pasta & sprouts. Avi Cakes & an assortment of fruit, veggie Nutriberries are his main diet ...

Does my pigeon have a broken wing, or just a strained or sprained one?  Hello :-) MY name is Christina and I live in Australia. I found a pigeon with one wing drooping lower then the other. He was in the park. I am going to ...

Red mites in my home  I noticed yesterday that there were red mites in my budgie cage. The budgie was out at the time so I bleached all his cage/toys and poured boiling water ...

death of cockatiel  i have a nesting pair of cockatiels the male died will the female be okay

No feathers around neck  Hi my husband just got 2 cocketils from a lady at work not sure how old they are she said the are babies . They are both eating and drinking water but ...

loss of feathers around cere and cere changing color  Hi. I have noticed that my parakeet (approx. 3yrs) has started to lose some feathers around its cere. Her cere is also changing to a blue tint. She is ...

Plucking babies  Seven weeks ago our 2 lovebirds had 2 babies. Two days ago we noticed that the parents were plucking their feathers. The babies had just recently left ...

Locking beaks  I have a green cheek conure and a 7 month sun conure. I have recently let them play on the play gym together. After a bit they are locking beaks and then ...

bird very sleepy and has black patches on its nose  my lovebird is very sleepy it use to jump around but now it sleeps it has a black patch on its nose which wasn't there before i am scared help

Budgie has white spikes on his head??  My budgie has white spikes on his head, not sure what it is, my husband says it looks like his feather quails or the end of the feather. Can you tell me ...

Should I put my lovebird to sleep?  I have a peach face lovebird that we have had for 12 years. I don't know how old she was when we first got her. She is going blind so no longer has free ...

Senagal gone quiet  Hi, My Senagal Parrot is usually really loud and full of energy. I woke up one morning and he didn't do his usual call (He calls when I leave the room)...

Splayed legged budgie with pressure sore  I rescued three splay-legged budgies about a year ago. They are really healthy and active. I set up perches along the side of the cage so they can perch ...

mites  what do peach-face love birds look like when they have mites

why hand reared parrot suddenly died?  I have been hand rearing a baby lovebird since it was 7 days old and suddenly at three weeks old it suddenly died. I was shocked as an hour before it ...

Unhealthy sun conure in bird specialty store  Hi I'm a new owner of a lovebird and stopped into a local bird store (Florida) to find most birds looking healthy and friendly except for two sun conures,...

Budgie dropping green  2 days ago my budgie's poop started turning out light green with white and after it dried it would be dark green with white. Is he sick? If so what kind ...

Inactive 4 week old budgie  I have had my budgie for 1 week, and his/her (not able to tell yet) activity level is not very high. From what I have been informed, to get them trained ...

cockatiel  I have a cockatiel that is approx 2 1/2 yrs old. ever since we had adopted, he has never made a sound...chirping or whistling. he had what we thought ...

Chicken not standing   I let me 10 chickens out the other morning and by the afternoon I found my black sex linked chicken on the ground with the top of her head pecked very ...

African grey help  Our African grey has started to sleep quiet a lot and is sometimes quieter than usual (but not all the time) he also squeaks when he poos but I'm not sure ...

abnormal parakeet beak growth  My parakeet is over six years old and n the last few weeks it's beak has grown to the point that it can't eat. I have trimmed it twice and it is fine ...

Kakariki eating own feet  Our 6 month old Kakariki arrived to us with 2 missing claws on right foot. We put it down to poor keeping from previous owner, as he was in a very small ...

conure is favoring one foot and cannot stand on one leg   conure is favoring one foot and cannot stand on one leg without holding onto the cage bars

Molting at different times  Cosmo my catalina loses a couple feathers at a time then new ones grow in...I totally understand that concept, BUT
Bella my B&G loses down feathers all ...

sick bird  what do you do to help a Cockateil get rid of the sniffles?

why finches lose hair  loosing hair on my finches neck 3 of them

Wing problem  Hello I have an 11 year old african gray we moved from Connecticut to Florida 6yrs ago. Ever since we've been here our bird gets ingrown feathers or cysts,...

Eclectus diet.  I recently acquired a female Eclectus who was mostly plucked. I was told that I should not feed pellets because they are vitamin fortified, but before ...

nose bleed from my budgie  iv just got a female bugdie and she flew into the window and now she is bleeding from the nostrils,what can i do?

Bird gone quiet  My maxamilias pionus is chatty and the most loving bird, we have his wings trimmed to prevent him from flying off. He had this done as a young bird and ...

Blood from nostril of budgie  Hi, I have a budgie 3 years old.Last week I noticed some staining above her cere and blood under her nails.I thought she must have scratched herself as ...

Eucalyptus oil for feather loss  I've noted that eucalyptus oil is recommended but are there other (better) forms of it to treat (or supplement) my tiel externally and/or internally. Have ...

is it common practice to remove flight feathers surgically in macaws?  I have a 7 year old macaw that I aquired recently. I was told at the time that I brought her home that her flight feathers had been surgically removed ...

Bird hurt toe  A while ago my bird accidently hurt his toe, not enough to break it but enough to cut into it.

After a few weeks(About a week and a half I think) it ...

Lovebird plucking partner  I recently bought two lovebirds and they seem to get on but recently the male lovebird has been plucking fur off the top of the female lovebirds head and ...

macaw in heat  how do I tell if my greenwinged female macaw is in heat

squealling alexandrine parakeet  why does my bird squeal?? he is an alexandrine about 1 year old male. is there anything we can do to stop it.

green chick conure need shut?  we have a green chick conure for two months. does it need shut? and how can i find it's a boy or girl?

Chicken tail feathers look chewed  My 3 year old ex-batt hen is healthy although
perhaps a little overweight. I have noticed
the end (not where it joins the body) of her tail feathers ...

yellowr tail feather on blue & gold macaw.  I have a Blue & Gold Macaw that has a solid Yellow tail feather does this mean he is sick or has an illness? Or is he just rare?

my african grey timneh eye looks a funny colour   also the pupil doesnt move and he has began to blink alot out of it

Recommended disinfectant for cage, nest box etc.  I recently found information about GSE, and I want to use it to clean\disinfect cage, nest box, syringe, food & water dishes etc.

Is it a recommended ...

Messy vent and bobbing tail  My pet budgie looks unwell sometimes.
She is 10 months old and is a female, and a blue bird. Most of the time she has a very messy vent and seems to ...

My blue macaw not eating and saliva from his mouth  Hi, My blue Macaw 5 months old is not eating well not from hand feeding nor on his own, also he is dribling stick saliva from his mouth could you please ...

tumors in birds  what might cause a bird to get a tumor

bird injured her foot still bleeding  my quaker parrot injured her toe and it keeps lightly bleeding and hasnt stopped

my canary with crusty eye  my canary was fine yesturday til today when i removed his blanket from his cage this morning i noticed one of his eye has some crusty thing around it,his ...

Jardine digestion problem   My Jardine has been admitted to our local vet over the last four days, with some kind of digestion problem. He is eating constantly without getting full....

29 year-old macaw doesn't grow flight feathers  I have a 29 year old blue and gold macaw. I've had him for about three years now. His left wing looks normal, but his right wing is completely void of ...

The cloud eye of a 20y Moluccan   My probably 20y moluccan ,which I have rescue 10y ago, has suddendly shown a cloudy eye he is eating well ,fresh fruits and seeds, I got him with a mutitalate ...

budgie's tail has bobbed for 5 to 6 months  My budgie's tail has bobbed every since I got her at 3 months old. She is now 9 months old and still does it. She act fine, eats and drink good, play and ...

my cockatiel picking feathers  everytime after my cockatiel eats something (that isnt seeds) he picks at his feathers on his neck for about half an hour, is this an allergic reaction ...

Sulphur Crested Cockatoo  Hi, I would like to ask you a few questions in regards to my Sulphur Crested Cockatoo.
A week ago, she laid an egg. We only have a female cockatoo and ...

swolen finger, yellow, dry, no wound  Please see this photo first: (link didn't work)
The long back finger of the left foot of my lovebird is swollen, but the swollen part looks yellow, not ...

chicken beak  our chooks bottom beak isn't opening normally. she is an older chicken and when on hols we had a chook taken by a dog or fox, so we are not sure if she ...

30+ year old umbrella cockatoo losing balance  My 30+ yr.old umbrella cocakatoo is having trouble keeping his balance... sitting on the bottom of his cage and is holding his wings open. He seems to ...

white parakeet falling from perch  I have a white parakeet and he is approximately 1 1/2 years old. He has been occassionally falling off his swing,and now his left eye is loosing hair. He ...

Baby cockatiels loosing weight  Hi i have some cockatiels im hand rearing im using the same food and methods iv always used but for some reason all the chicks seem to be loosing weight ...

sulphur crested cockatoo wings bleeding for the past 30 minuites  i think i cut my sulphur crested cockatoo wings too close she has been bleeding for the past 30 minuites. i put corn starch on her but she is still bleeding ...

featherless  my female cockatiel is rapidly losing feathers. i initially thought is was my male bird preening her roughly so i keep him away from her. she is prone ...

My oranged-winged amazon is loosing her contour feathers in belly til the neck.  I wonder what could be wrong with my orange-winged amazon.I purchased her 6 years ago she never had problems,I don't know exactly how old she is but just ...

Orange Tipped Amazon: first fluid, now lump  Hello: I have an Orange Tipped Amazon hen named Betty. She is about 30 years old (I am the second owner so her age is only a guess) and about a month ...

Food for conures  what do green cheeked Conure birds eat

rosella seems sad  i have a pair of scarlet rosellas very pretty. have had them for a year now. they been in the same cage and they have a nest box but the female has never ...

Question About unidentified "thing" on african grey's head  I was petting my african grey on the head when I realized that i felt something strange by the nape of his neck. I combed through his feathers and it ...

Don't know If I Need to be concerned or not. HELP!!  my boss has an amazon parrot that I look after-She has started tucking her tail and making these weird noises. she is almost 30 years old. I have been ...

Sun conure ruffled feathers, flapping one wing  hello. my sun conure is about 4 months old and I've only had him 2 days. all of a sudden he keeps his body feathers all ruffled and won't relax them keeps ...

Injured budgie foot  We had an accident in the house about 6 weeks ago when my African gray bit off one of my budgies toes. We went to the emergency vet and had the toe cleanly ...

Leg Band  Our 12 week old Hahns macaw removed his leg band. We cannot find it. Is he required to wear a leg band? What are the implications if we don't have a ...

Cocatail  my pet cocatail just laid an egg but she has something red hanging is that normal ?

budgie with curled toes  Female budgie (age unknown but at least 5 yrs old) has toes curled on one foot. Her beak is also flaking at the tip but not sure if because she is using ...

Female Quaker with dent in beak  We went on vacation and noticed that our
Female Quaker (Polly ) has a dent on her beak when
We got back. She has a mate that shares her cage. Wondering ...

i found a bugie that cannot hold anything help please  please help me i actualy found it on the street today

sick cockatiel  I recently had a male cockatiel operated on for removal of a mass. When I took him back in 10 days for a recheck, the vet told me he had a prolapsed rectum ...

My bird is acting weird and won't fly   You're an Avian Vet so I think you can answer my question. I have a House Sparrow (not a parrot but I don't think that matters) that I raised since it ...

Finding the sex of your bird  Can you find out the sex of the bird by checking the area where feces is released?

21 day old Catablu hasn't opened his eyes yet.  Hi, we pulled Jake approximately 8 to 10 hours after hatching. His parents are first time parents and hadn't fed three previous chicks, they passed after ...

budgie feels really hot almost every time he eats  Hi, my budgies is about 2 years old. He used to feel hot when he would be eating his millet and would raise his wings. This would only happen when he ...

cocketeil breeding  My baby boy (6 mos) just mated with my female cocketeil. I do not want to breed them. I was planning on moving him in the the other male this weekend. I ...

about my male budgie  hey my green male budgie has something grown on either side of its beak as the same colour of the beak. and its beak has become completely dry plzz let ...

blood in droppings  Mums mountain lorakett is almost 18 years old and she noticed today that there was blood in babies droppings... should Mum be alarmed

7 month old catilina macaw has been very quiet   when I purchased him from the pet store,he was load and vocal until I brought him home. He was aggressive for the first 24 hours but now is very sweet ...

Sick conure?  I have a sun conure who is a little bit over six weeks old and got him from a breeder. The breeder supposedly hand fed it, however, my bird, Juan Pierre,...

feather picking  Hi, my parrot had its first 1 year old moult and decided to pluck all its pen feathers out. So - it is left with just the downy feathers and obviously ...

plucking feathers  Hi, why my African grey pulls out tail feathers and the long dark grey ones on the back. It started since its feathers were clipped for the first time....

Budgie quiet, poop stuck to feathers  Hi my cat got on top of the table of my budgies cage and it fell so he got stuck under the tray and he was suffocating when we tried getting him out he ...

bird won't eat vegetables  i have had my cockatiel for a year now but i dont feed any vegatables and im worried if that will make him sick ill tart feeding him vegetables soon.

African parrot foot turned black  My parrot seems fine but I noticed one of foot (right) turning black doe not hurt to the touch and still holds food with it

Broken back toe  My dove has a broken back toe, is there anything that can be done?

grey is eliminating lots of clear liquid  my 2yr old grey has been eliminating lots of clear liquid over the last couple of days - it started with what appeared to be a vomit but now he poops very ...

full spectrum lighting - distances  How should I determine the distance above a bird to locate a full-spectrum light?

What does one do about getting light close enough to birds in cages ...

do lovebirds (peachfaced) have closed rings?  hi, im looking to buy a lovebird since i am a bird person , under one condition, i have to have a closed ring on the bird, i went to the pet shops and ...

Beaks fell off lovebirds?  Both my breeding pair of lovebirds died at the same time with the same symptoms.Because they were nesting i did not see it until they came out while i ...

i dont know if i should worry or not  my cockatiel has kind of red nostrils, and a little bit of, looks like chapped beak if that exists. and a little discoloration on his lower beak.(white)...

4 week old b/g and 4 week old scarlet macaws sneezing  Hello, I just got two macaws from a breeder today. The male is the scarlet and the female is b/g. On our drive home ( about three hours from breeder) they ...

swolen butt canary  my canary has a swollen butt, but also I've noticed that his butt has a bad smell. Is he sick?

tail biting  Hi I have a pet Lovebird he is about 7 years old and recently he started fanning his tail feathers and biting at the right hand side of them will this ...

Missing feathers  My parakeet has a patch of feathers missing on his under side does this mean he is sick or anything?

feathers around budgies eye  Today I noticed my budgies feathers around his left eye seem a bit brownish and messy. The eye looks like it may be some what squinty compared to his ...

Lump on cheek  My 11 year old conure has developed a lump on the right side of his face, behind the beak and under the eye. He looks like he does when he's excited and ...

Chicken with lumpy mass  My Ameraucana Chicken in the last couple of days has had a lumpy mass form on her left underside(Subcutaneous) inbetween her left leg and her breastbone....

crop fills with water  I have an african grey 11 weeks old. He loves bathes but more than the bath he loves drinking the water. After every bath his crop is fully extended. Sometimes ...

How common is "false pregnancy" in cockatoos?  Hello... My 36-yr. old umbrella cockatoo has a "false pregnancy" or "false egg" about twice a year. Each time, she swells like she has an egg, and picks ...

my pet zebra finch lost plenty of feathers  My pet zebra finch lost a whole bunch of faethers but there were no missing pathches, strangly.that night we were out at a resterant so we could not see ...

senegal flax allergy  i think that my senegal is allergic to flax. have you ever heard of this?

cockatiel bird injured?  so my cockatiel will on accasion hold one leg up and make some noise almost like its hurt or something. before and afte she walks on it just fine which ...

Symptoms of my mitred conure  My female mitred conure has been having seizures and also the following sysptoms: cold beak and feet, shakes her head from time to time like she has something ...

ill budgie  My budgie keeps loosing its balance and often falls off her purch, she can fly a little not like she used to be able to and often ends up on the floor....

cockatiel calls his owner non stop for hours  The cockatiel learned to say Lynette early and now when she's out he screams her name non stop. It is so bad its driving us mad. Almost to the point of ...

my cockateil has a squeaky voice  my cockateil has had a sudden change in his chirp, its really squeaky and then when he squarks its really deep, should i be worried if something stuck ...

burke parrot with sore eye  My Burke parrot has a sore eye. Seems to have lost the feathers around the eye and eyelid is closed. I treated with medicine I use for Budgies scaly beak ...

bumps on parakeets feet  My parakeet has bumps on his feet is this normal? He doesn't have any problems getting around.

My bird randomly spazes out.   my love bird is about 13 years old and will occasionally fall over and flop around like he is having a seizure but then 30 seconds later he will get up ...

Is my Baby Budgie ill?  Hello. i got Billy the budgie 5 days ago, and he is 10 weeks old on Saturday. I have been spending a lot of time with him and he will happily perch on ...

Why are my budgies dying  I have 4 budgies die on my the first pair, I had for two week which I purchased from a pet store, one night the was a lighting storm and a large clap above ...

ivermectin dosage  Dear Sir/ Madam, I'm a budgie breeder, i have big quaninty of full crested budgie and normal my question is about the ivermectin dosage, last year i have ...

Weird sounds  My 6 year old umbrella cockatoo recently started sounding like he has a sore throat. Unfortunately he screams a lot, and occasionally it sounds like what ...

Legs not working  Why would a seemingly healthy bird just stop all of a sudden using it's legs, holding them next to the body like they are paralyzed. It cannot grasp anything ...

Baby Sun Conure with weak/useless toe  Hi, I just adopted a Sun Conure from a breeder two days ago. She is 10 and a half weeks old.

The next day, when she started becoming more active, I ...

Lovebird's tail bleeding  Hi, A few weeks ago I bought 2 lovebirds from a friend of mine. The 1 year old male's tail feathers were missing. I was told the mother had done this because ...

parrolet ingured foot  my 7 month old parrolet has recently been lifting his right foot went he sits..at first we thought it was a cute trick but this morning when i took off ...

cockatiel female lose feathers  I got 2 cockatiels from a coworker and the females cheek feathers where the orange circles are suppose to be are gone. the lady i got them from said this ...

amazon hurt his leg   My Amazon Yellow Nape is usually in good health. But last night I knowticed he was limping. He will not put weight on his hurt foot and still limping today....

Is 13year old quaker to old to breed?  HI i just bought a pair of blue quaker parrot,i was told they where 3 years old. but when i got them home there leg band say 1998 that makes them 13 years ...

American Budgie Belly  I have an american budgie, and his chest is protruding is this unusual? do i need to seek help?

My cockatiel can't make noise !!  I woke up and found that my 1 year old male cockatiel can't make sounds .He is trying and is getting little intermittent sounds . He is eating ,drinking ...

Abnormal Feather loss and growths On my Budgie  My Budgerigar is around 6 years old. In the past six months his feathers have been doing very strange things. At first he started getting bald patches ...

Parrot Wheelchair  I have handicapped conure that i would like to have a wheel chair for . Do they make them or do i need to design one.
His name is Max his leggs do not ...

Sick Budgie  My budgie is pooping with a white-ish tint. Not in the middle, for that is "pee" but the part thats supposed to be green-ish. He's been sleeping more often ...

Dropping problem?  I just brought home a parakeet and sometimes her dropping will stick to the feathers around her anus. Should I try to wash them off for her, or is something ...

My Bird (Chicken) wont open one of her eyes!  Hi, I know my chicken is not a parrot, but I thought maybe parrots have this problem as well.
There is something wrong with my chicken and I have been ...

Baby not growing feathers on head  Hello, I just purchased a couple of cockatiel birds in December 2010. The female laid a clutch of 8 eggs and only 1 survived of the eggs that were fertile....

Bird Died, worries about partner  I have a cockatiel that just passed away, and I was worried about his partner. Would it be best to give his living partner more human attention than he ...

unsteady sleepy buff orpington  She has been weak and unsteady on her feet for about 2 days now. She's very sleepy. we have isolated her. Not drinking much, not eating unless I soak ...

avairy bird with red around eye  ive got a white female budgie and she has got red round one of her eyes she is in the avairy with 4 cockateails and 3 other budiges and 3 quails they ...

Budgie not folding back its wings completly  when ever my budgie is resting ive seen that both f his wings are resting lower and are not folded agaisnt each other?? are his wings injured?

cockateil is limping  my cockateil is limping should i be concern

lori has orangey red pooh.  my lori has orangey red stools. is this her diet or is she sick? her behaviour is normal.

Help this is a emergancy!!!!!  My bird has funny looking red lumbs above his eyes and he has had them for about 3 weeks and one has popped and covered his eye and we are not sure wat ...

canaries eye gone white  my canaries eye has gone white. its just like there is a white cover on his eye. what should i do? HELP

Worm like thing above cere  My budgie had a little lump above her cere it was noticeable because of feathers missing. I put llium drops on here cere because it grew big again and ...

Parrot pregnant too long  My 36-yr. old umbrella cockatoo appears to be carrying an egg, but she had had it for 4 months now. In the past, she has laid 1 or 2 unfertilized eggs ...

i have and amazon bird that makes weird sounds like in pain   i dont know if this is and emergency he started this today making this weird souds he scronch down and i'm really worry is sunday night i dont know where ...

Small abrasion on my sun conures stomach  I noticed this evening a small spot on my sun's stomach where her feathers were darkened with blood. After examining her, I found a small abrasion, like ...

Solomon Electus doing leg biting  Hi I have a 5 year old female solomon Electus that rejected her 8 year old male companion and a month later she has started biting her legs is this a deficiency ...

help - bird twitching  bird is twitching its neck to the left and 1 eyes is alot bigger than the other

feeding my bird  I just bought a four month old cockatiel yesterday, but I forgot to ask the person who sold me the bird at the pet shop wehat the bird eats. What should ...

Swollen leg.  My bird has a band on it's leg and it is to tight. His leg has swollen around it and it is now 1/4-1/2 in. embedded into it's leg.

Cockatiel with swollen, blind eye -- with blood?  A few weeks ago I noticed that my 14 yr. old cockatiel Gally had a swollen eye. She held it shut most of the time, and when she opened it, it looked glassy,...

If my budgies eye is bleeding does that mean its blind?  My budgie "Lucario" AKA "Feetees"was flying then saw my other bird 'Genie" and quickly moved then looked back and banged into a misquote net and he fell ...

parakeet gender  im noticing blue rings around my FEMALE prakaeets nostrils shes about 5-6 mounths old but does this mean she really is a male if she has blue rings around ...

White crust on feet  my budgie has this white crust on both of his feeet and i am not sure what it is

medical - stroke?  can a orange winged amazon have a stroke or sezier? I looks like there is something wrong with my parrots right claw, Like she can't put in down or control ...

indian ring necked is not growing feathers  My indian ring necked is not growing feathers after his first moulting. My parrot is around one and a half year old. his feeding habits are absolutely ...

Canary: Strangely Grown Claw  My canary has been standing on his one leg since 2 days now. I thought he hurt himself, but when i saw his claw closely and compared it to the other one,...

Itching vs plucking  How could you tell the difference when your bird is itching itself opposed to plucking?

my budgie has a buldge on the side of face  my budgie has a large bulge on the side of his face..it is getting bigger..what could it be?

Indian ringneck okay fruits  I have a indian ringneck abd rainbow lorrikets Can they eat strawberries and kiwi fruit. Also hav a love bird and pink and grey glaha and want to know ...

Swollen belly on my 19 year old sun consure  My bird stomach is distended, she/he is eating but does not seem to poop as much as usual. I am worried. I need a vet that knows about birds.

I live ...

Lump on my bird. What should I do now?  Hi! I have a 11 year old male cockatiel. He developed a large lump on the side of his neck. But otherwise was fine. I took him to the avian vet (about ...

Conure tail feathers fell out  Hi there, I bought my Green cheek conure in March 2011. He did not have a tail due to a fight with another parrot who pulled them out.

He is now about ...

My cockatiel laid 3 eggs 3 weeks ago.  This morning I found all 3 sticking to her belly. What is this and what can I do?

moving there tail  my female parakeet moving his tall up and down
its a sign of illness

why my budgie sleep   hy my name is qaim
i have a pair of budgie they are in breeding condition but the male is always sleeping and looking bore they some time kiss with female ...

Weird Macaw Behavior   I have a 9-year old Miligold Macaw. There are times when he looks like if he were in a trance. His eyes dilate, he twitches, sometimes he repeatedly nods ...

sleepy cockatiel?  My 4-year old male cockatiel, Donny, used to be quite lively and spirited. He would sing, chirp, talk to feet (idk why, but it was cute) and just be an ...

Dark Colouring around my African Grey Parrot's Eyes  Hello, My African Grey parrot recently flew away and was lost in the local woods for 2-3 days. When he was found he started developing dark circles around ...

Budgies quiet and scattering seed  my budgies have become a little subdued in their singing,singing very quietly and they have started to scatter their seed over the floor of the cage.they ...

overgrown dove's beak  My dove's beak is curving downward with a significant arc. I haven't been working for the last year and can't afford vet bills. Can she starve to death ...

Loss of grip in foot  I have an Eclectus female who recently reached breeding age. She is paired with a male and has laid 2 infertile eggs over that past few months. I noticed ...

Plucking  I was given 2 cockatiels that are believed to be 3 yrs old or so. They were stressed when they were brought to me due to their previous owner dying and ...

mites  we have a black capped conure and wondering if it has mites. We noticed some white stuff under its wings...any ideas?

lazy budgie   my male budgie is always looking sleepy and bore i also go to vet but he said their is nothing wrong
and the other question is they are in breeding condition ...

duck itchy  My mallard duck keeps quacking, what I perceive to be, painfully, while turning around in circles trying to bite an itch on her tail feathers?

My bird walks in circles  When my lorikeet walks in circles it's in the cage and sometimes when he's out what does it mean?

Is he bored? Also he is around 4 months and he is ...

Nostril Growth on 21 year old cockatiel fell off tonight.  My cockatiel is about 21 years old, and over time has developed a growth on his left nostril. In the past month, it has grown a bit, but the bird has not ...

Bald cockatiel  I purchased a cockatiel 2 mos ago, a young male. He lacked a lot of his feathers on the top and sides of his head and is still bald, to date. Otherwise,...

Cockatiel dried blood around nose  I was looking at my pet cockatiel when I saw what looked like dried blood around her nose. I was curious as to what this was because I have never seen ...

Mass at the side of the nose of the bird  I have noticed a mass at the side of the nose of my bird cocato is that a disease Thank you

Budgie's eyes closed and is limping a little...  I'm not sure what to do. I have a budgie that flew onto the top of my car hood a couple of years back and decided to keep her. She seemed to be a little ...

Budgie died  Parakeet opening and closing mouth, stretching neck and itching on perch frequently. My budgies friend died on august 5th, Just wondering if this has ...

my birds eating himself  hi,
my bird keeps eating himself, like between his neck and his wing.. he like picks at it, we took him to a vet, but he didnt really help at all, just ...

feather plucking  i have a quaker and he is an adult. he has never plucked his feathers before until today. i hear him banging his beak against his cage and i go to see ...

my parakeet seems sick  my bird has been puffy a lot more than usual.her nose seems to be getting dryer and it is turning a brownish color.she drifts off to sleep randomly in ...

The superman look  My conure keeps putting his wing out and stretching his leg with it, looking almost like he's doing a "superman" look. Its not hurt, that I know of, but ...

6 year old Sun Conure started laying eggs  Hi, my Sun Conure layed an egg last Sunday and then again Saturday night. She is 6 years old (we just found out our bird is a she). I have searched the ...

baby bird panting?  My baby bird is panting. He's not hot, just warm to the touch, and he has hopped around before but never enough to get him panting. he's been like this ...

baby pigeon breathing problem, yellowish deposit  a pigeon egg hatched on my apartment window, the second egg didnt hatch. the baby pigeon is one month old now, it has scissor beak... i provide it with ...

Growth on the bottom of IRN's tongue  I have a 5 month old male indian ringneck parakeet. It has a small growth on the bottom of it's tongue. He has been in to see his avian vet recently ...

sun conure death while grooming  While taking my 11 year old sun conure to be groomed, before clipping the wings and while filing the beak, he just died. I have been taking my bird to ...

Female parrotlet chews her tongue  My female parrotlet has started sometimes poking her tongue out the side of her beak and chewing it, this began about a week ago. It is not bleeding or ...

reddiah blub like substance coming out of butt  I have a 6 yr. old parrotlet. She is on her way to the avian vet as we speak. In the meantime I wanted to find out if anyone could help me with the problem ...

my parakeets is bleeding from its tail  my budgie snowball has no tail feathers but yesterday he started bleeding is that bad i rubbed flour on it but i was just wondering

Scraped foot  How can I treat my sun conures injured foot?

parakeet not doing anything  i got my budgie 4 days ago and it was doing fine but this morning i noticed it was just sitting on its perch and closing its eyes. I dont know if its sick ...

Parakeet not eating fruits/veggies  Hi I just got my parakeet 4 days ago and i tried feeding it fruits or veggies but it wont eat anything but its seed mix. please help i am worried it will ...

are carrots good for lovebirds  what kind of fruits can I feed my lovebirds, lettuce, carrots strawberry are they ok

Canary bald spot  Hi,
I'm minding 2 canaries for a friend (1 male-yellow, 1 female-green).
They seem to be comfortable in my home now but recently I noticed that the ...

Parrotlet scratches eye till it bleeds  I have an old parrotlet that I took in from my aunt since she couldn't take care of him anymore. The bird is pretty aggressive and doesn't get along with ...

small lump on belly of a caique  I noticed a small lump on my female caique's belly the other day. It's the same color as her skin. She is 4 years old.

rosebreasted cockatoo sneezing /stock dove   I have a rose-breasted cockatoo. She is 8 years old. Occasionally she has a sneezing fit like a person would. Is this normal? would it be dust or a cold?...

Green cheeked conure slow to recover  Hi, my son has a green cheeked conure, Popeye, who began having siezures. We took him to our usual vet who seemed to think he had a calcium deficiancy ...

what or puss filled pocket on the neck line (yellow collar macaw  my yellow collar mcaw is 12 yo and a picker we got him frm a prevous owner who said he never got out of the cage and later found out thats y he picks ...

Sick canary.  My canary is 7 years old and sleeps excessively, puffs up, and sits at the bottom of the cage. He breaths heavily and raspy now when he sleeps. What does ...

Conures wings grow back?  We clipped our yellow sided green cheeked conures wings 3-4 months ago and then decided we don't want to clip anymore. But since then they have not grown ...

Female cockatiel with scabs and crusty eye  I have just got a pair of cockatiels who are about 10 years old. The girl has scabs on her head and a crusty (but not red or swollen) eye and she sits ...

Parrot Diet  I currently am feeding my 13 year old Grey Harrison's HP course pellets. Since it is so expensive, I have a measuring system when I dispense her food....

Milky white susbance from beak  My 10 year old African Grey parrot began to have a milky white drip from his beak this morning...he wouldn't talk or move around...but after about an hour ...

a ball like bump on my bird  my cockateal that was just given to me has a bump or well its ball shaped right where the wing joins the body and its getting bigger, now is this a tumar ...

my pet is sick..........!  i have a 2 months old baby Alexander parrot when i brought him he is only 2 weeks old after some bays i brought him he is having loose stool and vomiting ...

white tip on beak  what does it mean when my caique has an extremely white tip on her beak?

Parafin Wax and Soy Wax  Are the fumes from parafin and soy candles harmful to a Conure?

Hole in my Canary's beak and he looks like he's itching a lot  My 2 year old canary suddenly looks like he's got a hole at the top left of his beak and it looks quite red. He seems to be itching a lot and often sounds ...

broken toe from dog attack  I have a yellow indian red necked parrot that is about 7 years old. My friend came over with a small dog and we comnpletely forgot about my bird and he ...

My Cockatiels eyes are going beneath his lower eyelid  A few months ago my cockatiel developed a lump over is right eye. took him to the vets and they ended up cutting above the eye. He is eating and drinking ...

budgie with bulge  hi there, i have noticed my budgie has a bulge in his stomach, i am not sure if it is just fat or what, any thoughts on this, what it might be? He is eating ...

Lovebird is cocking his head  I have a lovebird (Agapornis Roseicollis) that has just lately been turning his head sideways an unusual amount of the time.

He is around twelve years ...

Alexandrian Parrot plucking  I have an Alexandrian parrot. We were away on vacation for 1 week and had him stay with a friend. This week we are noticing a behavior where he appears ...

impacted tail feather  Thank you so much for your answer to my previous question about mesquite pods. Since there is no avian vet in my state or anywhere within many, many hundreds ...

canary with swollen butt  i have had this canary for 9 months, i did bring it to the vet he took an x-ray and put it on the internet to see if any of the other drs knew what it ...

live food for parrots?  Are crickets and meal worms or any other live food a good thing for parrots?

lovebird regurgetates food  My lovebird is regurgetating its food and building a structure with it. Why?

Safe Products  Are scented reed diffusers safe for birds?

mesquite pods  Hello, I have a molluccan cockatoo and an african grey. I also have a large mesquite tree......occasionally a pod from the tree fals into a cage and my ...

My lovebird past away yesterday 7/17/11  My lovebird died yesterday. Before she died she was panting really hard and her eyes closing. I have a bird cage that stays outside. It's has a roof and ...

No feathers on wing  HELP! My male canary's wing has no feathers, and is bleeding. He had a lump on the tip of his wing before, and my dad cut it out and it was almost like ...

my canary is losing feathers around the neck  my canary has been scratching his neck and has now lost feathers from around his neck.They are not growing back. damaged feather follicles maybe? Now ...

New bird  I got a new parakeet a 2 days ago he's always sleeping in his cage he didn't eat he stays in one spot but when I get him out he's just normal he eats when ...

Why did my Conure die...? D:  Hi.
A few days ago, my beloved Conure died suddenly. The day before he died he was PERFECTLY fine; acting just like himself. But, the next morning he ...

sneezing parrot  my quaker parrot has been sneezing and has not spoken for a few weeks.

Rusty brown droppings and occasional sneezing and shivering  My three month old green cheek conure has the symptoms described above. It doesn't seem urgent. There have been no changes in diet or behavior.

bad leg on finch  my zebra finch has what looks like dried boold on his leg he can not use it and holds it up all the time do you think that this is an infection and what ...

Parakeet baldness  I have 2 keets that are completely bald except the tips of wings tail and a tiny patch lining the nare. Otherwise they seem healthy they r about 6 wkd ...

rainbow lorikeet  my rainbow lorikeet has laid two eggs and when they hatch i have no idea what to feed them or how to look after them help!!

bones sticking out?  My cockatiel has a bownish gray stick like thing coming out of his chest/stomach. what is that and should i be worried?

some sort of head injury?  So I have an older female cockatiel and the past year or so my family and I have noticed that she'll randomly fly into walls or fall off her perch. But ...

Bleeding, bald spot  My moms love bird is missing some feathers about a 1/4 inch back and slightly down from right eye. There appears to be some blood spots there as well. I ...

Cut eyelid on bird?  My amazon has a cut on her bottom eyelid, and a small whole on her upper eye lid. Is there any way I can treat it? Or should I just take her to a vet?

How to know if my cockatiel is pregnant?  My birds were mating the other day, i thought they were too old to mate. We dont know how old they are, but I noticed my female cockatiel has gotten a ...

Parrot advice  One of our parrots is sitting on the bottom of her cage, with slight heavy breathing. She seems to be eating, although not as much as usual. She is very ...

Budgie with a big moving lump!  I have a Budgie with a big lump near its bum. I took it to the vet a month ago and the vet had never seen it before, she took an xray and nothing showed ...

weird noise  my cockateil makes a weird noise and he isnt a bird from a pet store i found him when he flew into my backyard.th noise is really hard to explane its quiet....

picking at underwing feathers  my 11 yr old blue fronted amazon has recently started picking her right wing underside. when a youngster she fell from her playpen down into the legs ...

bulbul bird losing feathers  I have a bulbul bird which keeps losing its wing and tail feathers then growing them back. It happens so frequently the bird can no longer fly. I feed ...

Budgie swollen joins & white "pimples" on both feet  Two weeks ago we noticed that our budgie was unable to grip with her feet and that her feet were rigid. We then noticed that the joints had swollen and ...

My bird has a blister thing   Hi my bird is a male galah he lost a big feather from his wing I was not worried but a few weeks later he got a blister thing where the feather was and ...

sudden screamings   my green naped lorikeet was in the middle of his sleep but he just screamed out of no where . this happened a few times today . it has never happened before ...

Mother has feathers worn off around eyes, inflamation  I have a hen with two 3-week-old chicks. Her face around the eyes is devoid of feathers, from the diligent feeding by her mate and abrasion from his beak....

bird safe paint  Are there any bird safe paints for touchups on cages?

bloody fatty spot on budgie  I find bloody spot on budgie stomach and after examination i saw fatty deposit on her stomach and a bloody spot on it!
bleeding stopped and started again ...

Right wing held out  My bird keeps holding his wing out, whats wrong? He likes to flap around and is easily excited could he have hurt something?

I think my cockatiel has conjunctivitis, please help me.   Hi, I have a Lutino cockatiel who is around 2years old (I think) & she has a problem with her eyes. it started a while ago now, they started to look quite ...

Lack of breast feathers on two of three 4 1/2 week old Canaries  I have two young Canaries which appear to have abnormal breast feather patterns (or lack thereof). One, which is the runt, is almost completely bare on ...

About Nestbox moving  My lovebird laid 6 eggs,now it started incubation,can we change the nestbox into an another cage.......? If we change what will happen.......?

What should a baby rainbow lorikeet poo look like  It is 12 weeks old and I have had it for two days. The poo is watery as it should be but always has flecks of dark green in it which looks kind of like ...

foot curled under  My older canary has a foot that has turned under otherwise he seems fine, eats, chirps etc. The expense of taking him to the vet worries me since we just ...

swellimg in crop and diaraiera  love bird has been eating papers in bottom of cage and now has diaraiera and a swollen crop, what to do?

Green Cheek Conure flight question  I have a three month old green cheek conure. Up until yesterday she flew around the apartment just fine. Today she seems to be having trouble flying upward....

Rainbow lorikeet Food  Hi, I just brought home a 9 week old rainbow lorikeet and I just wanted to know what to feed him. I know about the wet/dry mix but I was just wondering ...

bird redes-brownes beak  what do you do if your bird has a redes-brownes beak

5 year old African Grey first molt??  I have a five year old african grey and he hasnt been eating as much lately for the past three days and today I petted his back and a good 5 to 8 feathers ...

Totally Organics vs Harrison's pellets  I have had my conures on TO but am trying Harrison’s. Since Harrison’s cost more, I assumed that it was a better product. Based on the packaging, it ...

Parrotlet belly swollen  I have a blue female parrotlet and for the past 2 months her stomach has been swollen. She continues to eat and drink water and seems ok. I'm not sure ...

Budgie constantly molting  My budgie has been constantly molting for a few months now. She drops her feathers, starts growing them back, and then promptly starts dropping feathers ...

egg laying  why does my quaker bird keeps laying eggs she is 4 or 5 years old . i have gone online and done what the said to do, the lights the food, baths and move ...

my macaw spits out food   why does my blue and gold macaw spits out food on the inner side of his wing and then keeps chewing on it

my budgie lost its beak.  hi. my yellow budgie had a fight my my white/albino budgie , and sadly , the yellow budgie lost its upper beak in the fight. after that. it did not eat ...

Nostril growth  My 13 year old cockatiels nostril looks like it is growing closed. One side is fine the other side is out farther than the other and appears it is closing,...

parrot laying eggs  Hi i came home from work 2 days ago to find my eclectus had laid an egg! she has since laid another. i have been told to remove the eggs as this could ...

Bird Nibbling her Tail feathers  Hello, I got a Pineapple Green Cheak, And she is fine in temperment and eating well, Only problem is she tends to nibble on her tail feathers until only ...

love bird been sick  my love bird was sick and she keeps sleeping she seems to be coming around on her own and my mum says i cant take her to the vet cause its to expensive ...

Weird signs of a luntino lovebird  I have a 1 year old lutino lovebird that I got last Nov. When we first got her she learned to 'step up' and come to me very easily. Ever since I had to ...

Barbados Cherry?  I would like to know if the Barbados Cherry is safe to use in my outside aviary? The fruit, leaves and bark? I know that most cherries are toxic but ...

Covered breathing hole  My parakeet who is 10 years old and seems very healthy has one of his breathing holes covered by feathers and closed. seems it just closed up. He seems ...

Juvenline Starling  My friend found a juvenile starling near the road last night. She doesn't appear to have anything wrong with her wings, however she can't seem to stand ...

chicken  my chicken has what looks like a tumor on the side of her beak extending to the inside of her beak at first i though she had food stuck in there it is ...

my canary is loosing feathers  hi, dear madam/sir
i hope you can answer my question, i have a canary( female) and a male, for more than one year, about a year ago, the female started ...

Sudden death of my cockatiel  I've had a wonderful female cockatiel since 1996. About 2 years ago, she started getting crusty stuff around one of her eyes, and we took her to an avian ...

My budgie sounds different when he flies  My budgie is still young around 1 year old. He seemed fine when I let him out to fly this morning. But when I came home from work and let him out I noticed ...

wood in lovebirds wings  My Lovebird, Claudia takes pieces of multi-colored wood from her wooden toys, and puts them in her feathers. She somehow cuts them so they re short and ...

cocateil nasal passage black  My cockatiel has one white clear nostril and one nostril that looks black.Is he sick?

bird puffing up  i have a california quail that ive been raising for 3 years and it was very healthy but lately its been quiet at the corner of the cage it eats a little ...

grunting bird  grunting parrot at times pushing his bottom forward with these weird sounds like it is painful??

suddenly agressive  My 15 years old cockatiel is in heat about to weeks. He became very agressive and wants to be on my hair all the time. Help, what should I do with him....

switching to pellets  i just bought a Budgie (aka Parakeet) yesterday ans the pet store was feeding him seeds. I would like to switch him to pellets, when should I do this? ...

what about the skin under the beak?  the skin under the beak that connects the beak, is it very shallow? what are the chances of infection if cut? is it an emergency if it is cut?

my birds ...

11 yr old Parakeet excreted tissue before dying  My mother had a blue cheeked parakeet for 11 years. It recently died, and she told me it had passed a fleshlike tissue of sorts before it died. We know ...

African Grey is not eating and is spitting out clear liquid  My African Greys is 3 years old and is not eating and is spitting out a clear liquid, and is only closing her eyes. Nothing has changed in her diet, so ...

love bird sinus infection  my love bird has swelling on nose and an eye infection plzz let me no any remedy to cure it or an vet nearby

salt n poisons  i was just on this page i was concern about the table scraps n salt ive been feeding my nanday. I just got my bird a nanday. I wasnt aware of salt being ...

Need help with proper dose of baytril   I had to order baytril on line as I do not have an avian vet in my area or one who sees birds. I've been around birds long enough to know My English Budgie ...

Lovebird head twitching   I have a female fishers love bird of unknown age and today she has started to twitch and shake here head from side to side every time she moves. She doesn'...

skin hanging from his eye  He was attacked in his cage by a cat we think. Since then he has a piece of skin hanging over his eye.

Conure screams for attention all the time  Hello. My 13 year old conure always screams for attention when left alone. I know this can be a normal thing a bird does to call to the flock, but it ...

fatty liver disease long beak  I just got a 17 year old green quaker that has always been fed regular parrot mix (seeds, fruit, peppers). He has a really long beak, but his claws are ...

Lovebird with swollen right eye  Hi, My female lovebird is 5 years old and I noticed today that the white flesh around her right eye is a yellowy colour and is swollen up a bit. She does ...

Uneven hard lump on keel of eclectus  I have an eclectus with an unknown history. She has been to the vet twice because I would like to know why she plucks. She is on a fantastic diet and ...

my female zebra finches likes hangng with parakeets normal?   my female zebra finches likes hangng with my lillte sister parakeets, she got to the piont the they live together in one cage because she cant live with ...

Swollen Claw  My sun carrier got tangled up in his bed and his claw was bent back and we untangled the claw now he isn't using it and its very swollen all the way up ...

looks like a seed on side of beak  my budgie has something that looks like a seed on the right side of his beak. i have tried to remove it but he squawks when i tried. it just seemed to ...

Male Sun Conure looking for mate?  My twelve year old daughter and I recently acquired a 3 yr old male Conure previously owned by a male. This bird likes to dance in the bottom of his cage,...

Sick Bird?  I have a bird named Kyo who I bought a few days ago. He is well behaved and loves to sit on top of my head. I just noticed that he is missing feathers ...

green cheek conure breeding behavior?  I have had a green cheek since it was eleven weeks old. We have always handled her take her everywhere with us. All of the sudden it is starting to bite....

conure breathing  green cheek conours breathin isfast and shalow seams to be snezin

Sun Conure laid egg  I have a Sun Conure who I was told 17 years ago that it was a male. I recently gave the bird supplements with the regular feed of seeds,The supplements ...

Cockatiel has allergies?  My hand fed cockatiel is 6 weeks and slightly weaning. He has started spitting this morning, more like a cough.
This is not only when he is eating but ...

Jenday conure died suddenly...  I had a Jenday conure who had got lost a couple day ago. We got him back within a few hours. The next day he was fine until that night. All of a sudden ...

head drooping  I am watching a Conure that belongs someone who is away on vacation. Before the owner left he told me that he is looking for a home for this bird and ...

Parakeet has a swollen abdomen and no feathers in that area.   I noticed tonight that my parakeet has a swollen abdomen - not chest, but lower forward from her "rectum" and there are no feathers in that area. It feels ...

Quaker parrot stay with relative?  i am planning on going on vacation for at least four days and me and my quaker parrot are very close and she's always out of his cage. will my quaker die ...

quaker parrot's keel bone  Hello i have a 8 month to a 1 year old quaker parrot that i bought a few months ago.My question is are you suppose to be able to feel their keel bone?Why ...

indian ring neck is 6 month old his lower peek  my indian ring neck is 6 month old his lower peek is peeling a bit

Red swollen lump above my cockatiels eye   My cockatiel has a red swollen lump above her eye which seems to be causing irritation

Cockatiel feathers turning white  I have a grey male cockatiel about 4-5 yrs old. The grey feathers on his back and wings are turning white. What causes this and what do I need to do?
Thanks,...

My parrotlet is favoring one foot.  My parrotlet is favoring one foot and has for a while is this something I should worry about? He is eatting and flying just fine.

love bird has swollen crop  Why does my baby love birds have swollen crops?They are about 5 weeks old and they look very sick

Cockatiel huge bulge under base of tail  One of my cockatiels has a huge bulge under the base of his tail. This budge has been there for months and does not affect his eating. He is such a ...

lovebird has a swollen leg  is there anything to put on a love bird that that has a swollen leg?

moluccan cockatoo has bleeding sore, from biting  He has a big bloody spot on his chest and he is still picking. I tried bactine anti itch, but it did nothing.
What else can I do I can't afford a vet

finch picking feathers from vent  My zebra finch keeps taking feathers out of her butt what do I do?

Black bump on parrot's foot  We just noticed she has nice size bump on her toe , it's black and hard . Hurt to touch seems like. Fever on the leg. I will go to the vet tommorrow , just ...

parakeet care while you are away   I have a male parakeet in cage and I need to be out of house for two weeks. What should I do. A bird can survive for two weeks if there are enough food ...

Itchy butt bird  Do you know anything about our avian friends having trouble with a distressing foliculitis type problem? My lovebird of 12 years began plucking out immature ...

New Maroon bellied conure not playing  hello please help me i recused him 2wks ago the person who we got him off was feeding him budgie food he had no toys, he is now fed parrot food and he ...

cedar wood poisoning  If my bird is suffering from cedar wood poisoning ,what can I give it,to control or eliminate the effects of the poisoning?

Parakeet feces  My parakeets feces is powdery white. Is he sick, eventhough he acting normal. I did change there food recently.

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White Liquid dripping from beak  My cockatiel recently passed away and when i looked at it i found that a white liquid was dripping from its beak i would like to know if this had anything ...

crest broken  My poor female cockatiel glided a short distance against a wall it scraped off her crest feathers she did not bleed or cry but it looks like a reverse ...

missing feathers on my parrotlets head  i just purchased a normal pacific and Spectacled Parrotlet.the boy (spectacled) has missing feathers atop his head. i believe this may have happened during ...

Strange physical manifestation: Seizure??  I have a White-Bellied Caique who has recently been exhibiting some strange behavior. I have noticed this occur 7 or 8 times over the past couple of weeks ...

4 week old Green wing macaw  I have a beautiful 4 week old green Wing Macaw when he hatch his mom nipped half of his back toe off will this lower the price if i ever sale him ??

African Gray pulling feathers  After having my African Gray for 20 years now (since a baby)she has just started to pull her feathers out and attacks me more often than normal. Nothing ...

Wild baby mocking bird  I found a wild baby mocking bird. I looked up what I should do. I put her in a nest I had found & put it in the tree where she was found under.
I watched ...

Jardines Parrot raw anus  I recently rescued a Jardines Parrot and she has been losing feathers around her anus. Her anus appears to be raw and theres some scabbing. She has been ...

Paranoid about my birds' pellets.  I live in a country that doesn't have a lot of animal care, so good birdie food is hard to come by sometimes. people mostly think that parrots eat seeds ...

yellowish feet in a alexandrine ringneck  we rescued a alexandrine ringneck. it came to my attention that the coloration of the feet are yellowish (similar to the coloration of chicken feet). however,...

sparrow eye please help  i found a sparrow on the street and it couldnt fly and it was very cooled so i took it in and saw that his eye was bad on the eye lid it was red and rough ...

Cockatiel hearing and sight  Hi, how good is a cockatiel's hearing? Also, how good can it see in the dark?

African Grey scatching question  Hi I have a 10 year old African grey (with the maroon tail) she seems to be scratching herselft alot lately and when we assist in the scratching there ...

lovebird has dried poop  My lovebirds bottom is swollen and seems to have dried poop on it. This is from what i can see

Biting metatarsal pads  My Rosella is biting her metatarsal pads. First one, now the other. No obvious drainage other than bloodied. Pads are darkened with swollen outer edges....

bird is hoarse  my 5 year old sun conure is being real quite and squeaky today and it looks like his nasal passage are reddish... other then that he seems fine, he has ...

african gray eating its feet  im looking after a african grey and its owners told me it eats it own feet what can we do

my 9 year old african grey is going bald  hi, my 9 year old african grey has lost all his feathers on his legs, from his neck starting right from under the bottom of his beak down to chest, belly ...

Swelling on 1 side of birds face  I have a crested pigeon I found and have been hand raising as no wild life carers would take him and he is probably close to a few months old now. I have ...

paralyzed, lame on cage floor love bird   hello - our female love bird is sitting on the cage floor cause her feet don't work and she can't hold onto the branch. she is panting.

Sun Conure diet  My 7 year old Sun Conure will eat "Zoopreem Fruit Flavor", by hand, but will not eat it from bowl. He forages through his bowl and eat everything BUT ...

Cockatiel died .. a couple of questions  My cockatiel died on May 15th. He was with us for 15 years. He has never been to the vet but he was very well socialized and has been around a lot of different ...

plucking feathers   Hi I have got a 15 year old african grey parrot who has picked up the habit of plucking his chest and leg feathers and I am afraid for him. He is in great ...

Baby sparrow red swollen foot and yellow scabs under wings  Hi I rescued a baby sparrow of a week old and he was doing fine up until a few days ago he is now 5 weeks old and eats really well. He was starting to ...

Lovebird living outside  Can my pair of lovebirds live in an outdoor aviary year round if they are slowly acclimated over the summer/fall? I live near Roseburg Oregon. The aviary ...

lovebirds look ill at store  i went to a pet store to buy a couple of lovebirds but they look ill koz they are standing and they are lcosing their eyes most of the time even while ...

toes rotting off  Hi we have raised several lovebird chicks, one has been treated with antibiotics from the breeder as it began to have its toes go black the die then drop ...

My pigeons canker has gone but now he has a hole in the roof of his mouth  Hello, how are you going? :-) My pigeon had canker so I took him to the avian vet as I found it hard to give him his medications as he kept running away....

Parakeets bands and diet  we have 2 baby parakeets that have bands on there legs, do they need to be removed and what type of nutritional diet do they need??

Thank you
Yvette ...

white liquid coming out my lovebird mouth.  my love bird is still a baby that has learned to fly and eat pellets but just yesterday for the first time white liquid came out its beak like it was sneezing....

is my african grey ill?  my african grey has gone quiet for the past two days not himself usually very noisy and talking alot when he comes out just wants to stay on my shoulder ...

Gouldain Finch - sick  I have a goldian finch that seems to always need extra care. He is a blue gouldian and the major issues I see is that He seems to bob or rock every now ...

my macaw - apple cider vinegar?  Is it ok to give my macaw apple cider vinegar for his sneezing he does it alot and if so how much do i give him

Cockatiel Droppings  Hi - I adopted two male cockatiels from a lady who didnt want them anymore about 4 months ago. They have been on a seed only diet. I am trying to introduce ...

Cockatoo has musty smell  Hello,
My 13 year old female cockatoo has developed a musty smell that I notice sometimes more than others. She has been a feather picker in the past ...

yellow nape injured  my yellow nape has 1 cloudy eye and it looks like he broke the corner of his bottom beack and i can also hear him breathe is that normal?

confused - mites and gender?  my bird is a budgie what are the signs of a mite?? also how do you know if female or male?

small raw wound on his wing elbow of a cockatiel  chewy the cockatiel has a small raw wound on his wing elbow he fell out of the nest as a chick he is around 6 months old, boath his wing elbows are bald ...

Jenday conure with bump before her eye.  About a week after I bought my conure from the pet store she developed pink eye. I took her to the vet and got medication and it went away. Now she has ...

Cockatiel beak rapidly growing  We have 4 Cockatiel 3 females and 1 male we have had them all for about 3 to 7 years my one females beak wont stop growing in the past couple of months ...

Chest Lump looks like a sac filled with seeds  My cockatiel, Mochi, has missing feathers on his chest. Today I noticed that where he has missing feathers there's a lump. This lump is translucent and ...

Budgie's right leg dragging  My budgie, Charlie, seemed to be having balancing problems. Took him to a vet to get his nails clipped to see if that would rectify the problem. Now ...

claw wont close and limping  Someone sat on my conure. He's ok..eats normal..bathrooms regular.. but walks with a limp like his claw n arm are numb. He doesn't move or close his claw ...

Senegal Parrot jerks head alot  Good afternoon. My senegal parrot Rocco has recently picked up a habit of jerking his head from one side and sometimes looks back and jerks. Also i will ...

Bump over nose  Hi there i have a quick question/concern? Our 3 month old African Grey has a his minor bump/lump by her right here over her nose. We would like to know ...

Birds and art paint  I paint as a hobby using oil paints, but non-toxic brush cleaners. My art room is upstairs. I have even considered getting water miable oils. Could ...

Rosella is losing his breast feathers  My male rosella has been losing his breast feathers. They seem to be going white first then falling out. Other than that, he seems perfectly happy and ...

cockatiel-mass or blood blister on side of face by beak  My cockatiel has developed a mass or tumor that looks like a blood blister on the face where the beak opens. She seems fine other wise.

parakeet has lost all feathers around her butt area  I have had my female parakeet for about 5 years. REcently I have noticed that she is puffed up all the time and she has lost all the feathers around her ...

Sudden Sun Conure Death  Hi, Im just wondering if you can shed some light on the tragic loss of our bird. One minute he seemed to be fine, then shortly after he was bobbing his ...

Adult Budgeriar attacking babies  I have a 6ft x 2ft x 3ft cage with about 40 budgeriars. They have 10 aviaries 3 of which not occupied. Whenever a Budgieriar jumps out of his aviary a ...

nesting? throwing up  my 15 yr old green cheeked conure recently started throwing most of his food out right after i fill up his feed bowl. he then climbs into the feed bowl ...

Runny nose  Hi i have a cockatiel and he has a runny nose and keeps on sniffling......this has only started this morning..... what do i do?

Galah gettgin Red eyes  Our galah is developing red spots in the grey around its eyes. We have photo's from a few years ago that do not show red spots.

Please suggest if this ...

Will spinach cut my Cockateil 's throat open?  I have two Cockateils. I feed them spinach but my cousin tells me that it will cut their throats open! The one we think is boy is grey and has a yellow ...

My canary has splotchy red patches on both legs.   It originally started as very dry and scaly feet. I took him to the vet, and was told to purchase sunshine factor dietary supplement, to use for 30 days....

alexnadriene gender  how do i tell if my alexnadriene is a girl or boy ?

White sore foot  My parrot strained himself while pulling himself up. For about 2 weeks he has favored his foot. Now I notice his foot is turning white.

Recurrent diarrhea/polyuria in cockatiel  We have a 7 y.o. male cockatiel, with a history of liver damage. We have treated this with diet (pellets), milk thistle, and lactulose. He has had recurrent ...

White Casings around birds feathers  Good Afternoon, I have two baby budgies named Jelly and Bean,about 9 months old and both of them (one is not as bad as the other by any means), have white ...

Budgie making "spitting" noises  Hi there, My green and yellow budgie has started making (what sounds like) spitting noises. He makes like 6 ot 7 of these noises in a row and then will ...

feather plucking habbit  my alexandrine parrot pair is plucking its feathers for the past many years. the vet has not been successful in eliminating this problem. they are not ...

Budgie with tongue deformity?  My new budgie's tongue is not straight but seems to have tongue growths (like 3 circular tongues stuck together). What is this and how will this affect ...

Yellow crust on African Grey skin  Hi, I have a 5 year old african grey timneh. He is currently eating zupreme fruitblend pellets and taking additional clacium and vitamin supplements. He ...

area above nostral - what is it??  my parakeet in the nostral area just above it is redish brown and white. he is acting normal and is eating well, he doesn't drink alot of water but he ...

cockatiel pink face color  my female albino 1 1\2 year old cockatiel has a pink face nothing seems wrong with my pied male nothing strange in the cage or food!!??

a pigeon with broken beak  It's about three days I'v found a pigeon that Its lower beak has broken and it can't close its beak. I got it to a vet and he told me that if I close its ...

3 week old chicken has twisted leg.  I know this isn't a parrot question, but their legs are somewhat structured the same way as a chicken. Her right joint above her hock is turned inward ...

Malnutrition - Conure  My green cheeked conure was acting so weak and sleepy so we took him to the vet today and found he has malnutrition. The veterinarian felt his breast bone ...

Lovebird dragging leg  My little lovebird is dragging her leg and she is also nesting. She is able to use her feet to climb and she open and closes her feet fine, but when he ...

friendly little guy  Hi i got a new parakeet just yesterday and he already wants to come out of the cage and play he already lets me pet him as well is it strange for a parakeet ...

LoveBirds breathing   how many breaths does the average love bird take in a minute? it is for college work please help

Cockateil lump  What could a raised lump to the side of the beak and nostril be on my cockateil. It has only appeared in the last 24hrs.?

Not active dove  Hi my pet white dove is not active for some reason.It always slumps down on her perch and its wings shivers and it starts cooing until I take her out ...

laying of eggs  i have a single love bird but dont know the sex,im gussing female as she is laying eggs unfertilised.is there any way to stop this and do i need to?any ...

My pigeon missed a dose of canker medication- what do I do?  Hello, how are you going? I live in Australia and I need help quickly becuase it is Easter long weekend and all the vets are closed for 4 days. A wild ...

Weird bump/lump on the back of parakeet's head  There's a weird bump/lump on the back of my poor parakeet's head. I don't know what it is and how it got there. I want to take him to a vet, but I doubt ...

Something in eye  I've recently, noticed, my cockatiel, to have something in her eye, my dad looked at it under a magnifying glass and looks like a bit wax, but we're not ...

Disinfecting polyoma  Back in feb i got a newly weened black cap conure from a breeder. approx a month later he got sick and I got to the vet with not enough time :'( He was ...

lorikeet not breathing properly  hi i have a 8 week old rainbow lorikeet who has suddenly changed in behaviour. lorikeet not breathing properly and very weak, we have been hand feeding ...

Shedding budgie with strange growths on head  My three year old male budgie has started losing all his feathers. His blue and green ones are almost half gone and he just has big patches of White under ...

Inflamed area near anus; female cockatiel  Lately I have grown concerned about an inflamed spot on my 10-year-old female cockatiel. This inflammation is directly to the left of her anus and appears ...

My cockatiel wrist has scabs  My cockatiel has scabs on his wrist from the breeder I saved him from I moved him into a huge cage so he don't bang them up he likes to fly and when he ...

canary bird red spots  My female canary has starting to have red spots around her eyes and a bit around the nose..could that be a problem? if yes, what should I do to help her....

blue+gold macaw thowing his food out  how can i stop my blue+gold macaw thowing his food out he is healthy. my macaw is eating very well but on times just wastes his food why

Bump on Cockatiel's Wing  Hello,
My cockatiel is roughly one year old and seems to be doing fine. Eating and sleeping well, and very talkative and playful. Only thing is, I noticed ...

Clear liquid throw up  Hello, my cockatiel has been very sad lately because his friend a small bugie died a week or two ago. Since then hes been staying in the living room a ...

empty eggs  hi, i have a pair of african grey parrots , unfortunately dont know age , i have seen them mating and the hen has laid 2 clutches of 3 eggs and sat for ...

feeding worms and insects   I have 2 green cheeked conure, and my fiance just recently moved in with me and he keeps trying to feed them an earth worm that he feeds his lizard. Is ...

Viral infection in my african grey  My grey suddenly stopped talking and whistling but was still dancing,eating and drinking as usual. We had rescued another grey and presumed poppy was just ...

First time bird owner  my cockatiel has a sore beside his beak should I be concerned? and what can i do to heel it? thank you from Spike and the adams family

very old parakeet  Hello, My parakeet, Gigi is very old, her band says FL91. She has developed a very bad pecking/pruning disorder and her wee behind is very swollen and ...

Seed in eyelid  I got a young male parakeet recently and after a few days i noticed a lump that looked like a seed stuck in his eyelid. After a couple more days i found ...

my bird seems to sleep a lot   my love bird seems to sleep a lot from yesterday and stays puffed up at the bottom of the cage . . .it seems to be a young child and still doesn0know how ...

love bird neck bent  my love bird is about 12 years old. for two weeks he keeps his head bent. like he can't straighten it up.I took him to the vet he said there is no lumps ...

Parakeet not using foot.  Hi. My parakeet is not using her foot and she is holding it up with the toes straight out instead of curled up. There is a small scratch on the side of ...

Budgie broken leg  My pet budgies have been breeding and it was going really well. But recently the mother got really mad with the eldest of her chicks and threw him out ...

Bird Grooming - bald spot  I've had my budgie for about 1 year and recenly I put in a new one because she was getting lonley they really like each other but my oldest bird has started ...

AG sore on face above beak  My african grey has got a bald patch on his left cheek above his beak could it be where he scratches himself or could it be something else

cockatiel beak crusty  I feed my cockatiel toast of a morning ever since i picked him up from the breeder because that is what I was told to do. Anyway I have started to notice ...

Sticking tongue out and rubbing it  My Quaker Parrot who is almost 2 (we have had her since 11 weeks) started sticking her tongue out to the side this morning over and over. She also is ...

Alexandrine parrot losing feathers  I have marking alexandrine parrot losing feather and white flakes are visible on the body surface .

sick aystralian electus  i have a australian electus and he picks his feathers in the chest area but last night i notice he is swollen about a 1/4 inch below the throat area what ...

Broken parakeet wing  I don't know if my parakeet has a broken wing or not, but I guess it does. It keeps its right wing up, and I can't take it to a vet. It fell down last ...

Lovebird Chick-- Lump on head  Today I found a "surprise" masked/Fischer's lovebird chick. S/he is probably about 5 weeks old. What caught my attention is a swelling on the side of its ...

raw spot under wing of out quaker parrot  We just noticed a raw spot under our quaker parrot's wing. I put aloe on it but he keeps picking at it. As w/ quakers, he is always picking scabs off us....

respitory - bird died  my grey died last year, she was bout 12 y o. i came home from work at 10 pm and she seemed to be weezing but with no obvious discharge etc, i spent the ...

Cockatiels dark tounge  Why is my 2 month old cockatiel tounge a little dark on the end, almost black? I dont see it in any other 6 birds? Is this a sign something is wrong? This ...

male bourkes' parrot lump  I went to worm my male bourkes' parrot today when i noticed a large lump above his vent, it is quite large (about 4cm across), red and is soft. He is about ...

Sun Conure Parrot some feather loss  My Sun Conure is about 2 years old I bought it from a lady about a month and a half ago, Just in the past week and a half she has started loosing feathers ...

excessive molting and bare spots  we got a bluefront amazon bird about a year ago it is 5 yeras old now and is molting to the point where she has pulled all of her chest feathers out and ...

naked lovebird jerking  hello my lovebird is approx 10 yrs old
his mate died 5 years ago and i threw the whole cage out and put him in a new one so he would forget...he did and ...

Year old green cheek conure  I have a sweet little one year old green cheek conure. She eats healthy and always seems to be in a happy and active mood. Recently I had noticed that ...

Unexplained Illness in Lovebird  I have a six month old lovebird. He became very puffy and almost comatose on Thursday night/Friday morning. He wouldn't eat or drink anything. I took him ...

Possible Injured wing  My parakeet is holding up one of his wings for the last few days, and he keeps holding it up higher at times, as if he was airing, it looks like he injured ...

my rosey bourke has no tail   My rosey bourke never grew a tail or wings and she has very few feathers. we have had her almost a year and got her as a baby. went back to the person ...

What to expect in aging love birds?  My 10 year old love bird seems to be becoming weaker is this normal because of the age?

lump on wing  Hi, my cockatiel has a small (less than pea-size) hard lump on the middle of his wing. Usually it is covered up with feathers, but it is actually bald ...

hand feeding problem  i am hand feeding a harlequin macaw she is 6 weeks old and every time i feed her she throw her food up not all of it

flew today  my four month old indian rinckneck flew today will he come back

To clip or not to clip bird's wings  I am getting conflicting reports about Wing clipping, some in favour and some against I have been told not to clip his wings until he is 2 and possibly ...

cockateil grain stuck in mouth  cockateil seems to have a grain stuck in his mouth

indian ring neck parrot hunched over  i was just wondering why my parrot is always hunched over. No matter if he is on top of the cage or on his perch insie the cage he is always hunched way ...

Large lump on cockatoo  I just noticed that my umbrella cockatoo doesn't sing or scream like usual. We just noticed that he has a huge bump on his chest. What might this be?...

my Conure has breathing problems  Hello I am living in Athens (Greece) and i have a problem with my parrot,he is a 3-4 years old conure mitred,are 3months now since it started to make some ...

Love bird with red skin around eyes  My Lovebird has reddened skin around eyes and over the beak, what could be the possible cause?? It looks like the feathers have fall out around those areas ...

Poop String on New Bird  I brought home a new parakeet yesterday and he seems to have a little poop string attached to his vent. I tried to move him to see if it would fall off,...

need to know gender  i have a cookatoo and it has green in the out side of the eye and black in the in side is it boy or gurl

swollen area under wing  My cockatiel has developed a swollen area under her l wing. She does not appear sick. Still eating and drinking. She still enjoys our companionship ...

Can a Cockatoo and an Amazon have chicks (Part - 2)  I would like to thank Dr.B, Linda, and ?? for your comments on the subject. I understand that the two birds will not have chicks But some of the advice ...

bare, crusty anal area, tired and listless budgie  sad budgieI have a budgie who seems very tired and listless, and has a large bare area around his/her anus. could this be mites? and can it be transferred ...

swollen nostril  Hi,
I have had an African Grey for approximately 6 years, however the last 6 months he has his nostril swollen. Unfortunately, in Greece I am not able ...

sex of parrot   when i stroke down the back of my red lored amazon it raises its tail in the air and a small vent opens up at the base does this mean it is a female bird ...

worming conures?  how often and if should i worm my conure? she is nearly 3.

Nose problem ! need help !  My COG has a swelling in her nose and she scraches it occasionally.it has been ther for a long time now,over a year perhaps.I though it would it heal itself ...

Can a Cockatoo and an Amazon have chicks  Just found this blog today and I think it's a great site with a lot of information but I have a few questions I couldn't find answers for. I have a red ...

16 yr old African Grey  I rescued an African Grey from euthanasia approximately 15 yrs ago. Every Vet I went to told me the bird is neurotic, self mutilator and cannot be helped....

Blue Crown Fatty Tumor  Can anyone tell me about a fatty tumor ...??
I have had Polly my blue crown to the avian vet twice and she has told me it is a fatty tumor. Not to worry....

Female Timneh Large Scab on Sex Organ  Okay, I have had a female and male timneh for a couple of years that have coexisted fine without any issues. Yesterday, I was holding Molly and noticed ...

African Parrot eye is shut and not eating  Hi, My uncle has an african parrots who's eye has shut and swollen and he is not eating either.

Please could you advic. He does not have access to a ...

African Gray Parrots and Vent Free Gas Fire Place   We have an 18 year old African Gray Parrot. We have a new vent free gas fireplace in the basement. Is it safe to have the bird in the basement with the ...

Weird growth on my African Grey's beak  I have recently inherited a 3 year old African Grey and he's got this weird looking growth either side of his beak, it seems to grow and its fallen off ...

budgies beaks health  if i start feeding my budgie fruit and vegetables now, will the crust on his beak go away?

Budgie Behaviour - flapping wings  Hi, I was just wondering why my budgies hold on to their perch and then "fly"?; they flap their wings as if they are flying, quite rapidly, however they ...

Parakeet's butt - sick bird  Hello my parakeet has been sick for a long time and sneezes all the time but the vet couldn't do anything. Now he is starting to be less active and his ...

Cockatiel sick from last 5 days  Cockatiel sick from last 5 days, nostrils clogged, running poop, sleeping alot and not singing, eating or dinking.

We brought a small 8-9 month old ...

Alexandrine molting or plucking?  Hi, I've got a supposed male Alexandrine,one year old this week, and he has not had a serious molt yet. When he was about 6 months he lost a few baby ...

Lovebird is favoring one leg lately.  Our lovebird seems to be favoring his left leg for the last 2 days. When standing, he tucks his right leg upwards. Could he be ill?

Thank you in advance....

Average weight of SI Eclectus-8 wks old??  I have a male eclectus that I have been hand raising since he was 3wks & 5 days old. As of today, he is 8wks & 5 days old. He has been weighing in from ...

something is coming out of my cockatooos butt!  I have a 21 year old cockatoo, but she often looks like her butthole is coming out from inside of her. What causes this and how can I stop it from happening?...

Parrottlet losing feathers  Our pacific green parottlet is losins its feathers around its eyes and back why is this? We are just new to the bird world is this something to be concerned ...

Lovebird making messy poops  Why is my lovebird pooping really wet and messy poops?

Sick Budgie-help needed  My budgie ( 4 years old) has some abnormal growthswelling in his left cere for about a month now. It is increasing in size. He is quite active otherwise....

Indian ringneck parakeet   thanks for looking and for your help in advance.

I have a pair of indian ringneck parakeets both male and female.

the female is approx 4-5 years ...

Parakeet has long beak  I have 2 parakeets in one large cage, eat the same food. One of them is growing a very long beak. It is starting to curl under. What to do? Uses cuddle ...

My Cockatiels Beak...  I just noticed today that she has a white spot on her beak on the tip. Almost as if her beak is like "peeling"? She grinds her beak on her sandy perch(...

budgie's feathers missing from neck area  Why does my female budgie have feathers missing from her neck area? She's not pulling them out because she can't bend her head down in a way that she ...

picky cockatiel - switching to pellets  I bought a Cockatiel from petco about a month ago. They had her on a all seed diet and I have been trying to switch him over to pellets. But she won't ...

2month scally breasted lorikeet  what can make a 2 month old scally breasted lorikeets feathers fall out?

My Caique is constantly sticking his tongue out  He is constantly sticking his tongue out and rubbing his beak everywhere. Is he ok?

Lovebird problem  I don't know what happened to my lovebird. He is always sitting in the bird stand with his head turned towards wing with eye closed. His feather looks ...

Albino Parakeet with darkness around right eye  Hi, I have a 4-year-old male albino parakeet. He has darkness around his right eye that looks like it is turning yellow in some places. Is it possible ...

canary has an odd grey/purple spot above anus  i was cleaning my female canaries feathers near her anus because she had a little solid feces stuck there. she's still been able to have bowl movements,...

Bird symptoms/possible illness  I am currently looking at purchasing a 15 yr old male Blue Front Amazon. I noticed the bird has a constant twitch or shakiness to him. He is a very lovable ...

parakeets foot  I just noticed my parakeets one foots back claws aren't holding onto perches or my finger as strong as the other one is. It basically stays kind of straight,...

male moluccan cockatoo, eight years old falling  3 times now my moluccan has lost his balance wings flapping wildly he falls off his perch. I noticed that the problem seems to be that his left foot is ...

cockatiel puffing up  my cockitel is 10 weeks old and he is playing with his toys but hes puffing up. i just got him yesturday is that normal for him to puff up?

Sick Nanday Conure after egg laying  I have a nanday conure, im not sure of her age i was told she was 10 when i got her and i have had her for four years. so anyway the poor baby goes through ...

Sneezing bird  My parakeet is sneezing alot when it ruffles it's feathers. He acting fine. Is this normal.

Rubber bands safe for birds?  We discovered that our birds love rubber bands. We tie them to the cage bars, and they chew and move them around. Are rubber bands okay for the birds ...

budgie died  my budgie 'Gori' died as it was egg bound. had taken it to the vet but could not save her.

Candles in a room separate from bird?  I have a 5 year old Congo African Grey. I know that (in addition to most household cleaning products and teflon) burning scented candles in the same room ...

2 pinks lumps on my birds back  I have A new cockatiel and ive had him for about 2 months and he has 2 pink lumps on his back that are symettrical and they show when he takes a bath.

is ...

Prevent Pecking at sore  My bird has an open sore that won't heal because she pecks it. it has been going on for about 8 months now and we don't have a vet on island to look at ...

Conure-Loss of balance  Sunny is a 9 yr old Sun Conure and through the years has restricted her diet substantially. She only eats safflower and sunflower seeds, apples and bannanas....

sick budgie?????  i have 3 budgies (2 female and 1 male). female budgie got her egg stuck in her and could not lay, the vet removed the egg manually and gave few medcines....

my 1 yearold amazon parrot has a musty smell   i have had her only 5 days is this normal for these birds and if yes is there anything I can do to counteract it?

shaking head  I have about a 4 month old cocckateil and latley every time i start talking to he/she starts to shake its head and close its eyes while im talking should ...

Conure with wetness/sticky on head,   My pineapple conure keeps having a sticky wetness on the left side of her head, between her ear and eye. What could this be?

Fancy Budgie has a swollen abdomen to bottom  My bird has a "blackish" swollen abdomen to butt & it can't seem to produce feces properly. & when it does produce feces it tends to all be connected. I ...

Vet suggestions for Budgie, Lory and Eclectus diets?  Dr. B mentioned that these birds need a different diet. Ii asked him to clarify, what is best for Budgies, Lorikeets and Eclectus to eat?

Lovebird baby with swollen bottom  My love bird has a swollen liquid bump near his bottom how do I treat it and what is it?

Could a sore foot cause other problems?   For the past three days my Green Cheeck conure has been babying his right foot. He doesnt grasp onto perches or even fingers with it and he always has ...

Injured foot  A couple of days ago, I woke to find that my Sun Conure's foot was trapped in a string that was on her hut. She had somehow managed to get it wrapped completely ...

birtd tail is sore  My bird has broken most of his tail feathers in the middle of his tail. this happens when he tries to fly from a fairly high perch. his wings are clipped ...

Mucus around bird's nares  just got my birds beak trimmed the groomers noticed mucus around my birds nostrils and that he has a soft beak tissue. ive noticed that recently, and only ...

Cockatiel falling off perch  Why is my 17 year old cockatiel falling off her perch?

Will a wild mouse attack my cockatiels in their cage?   I have been on a number of occasions woke up in the middle of the night with my birds flapping and squalking, and falling off their perches. When I look ...

Indian Ringneck Parakeet died of unkown causes  We recently bought an indian ringneck pair, when we bought it, they said the female was moulting? its feathers looked pretty bad and she patches that had ...

Umbrella cockatoo breathing differently  Umnbrella cockatoo breathing quickly and shallow. Sounds like it has a stuffed up nose (so to speak). Cause and cure info would be nice.

should i get a male or female budgie?  I've had my male and female budgie for about 3 1/2 years now. Just recently the female budgie died. Both budgies were very close so I'm worried about the ...

Itchey beak purple in color  my 20 year old female double yellow head is extremely hormonal. will not eat. scratches her beak franticly on the cage and the beak is more purple than ...

a growth  I have just noticed my budgie has a dark coloured growth approx 1cm in length, just above his tail feathers. I fear this is serious, we do not have a vet ...

rosella parrots pecking problem  since my male rosella had a injury 2 her foot, the felmale seems 2 b pecking at the male most of the time,not causing injuries but follows him around the ...

my bird is falling down like paraliss  my bird is falling down like parallel atake what happens what type of tablet i should give it

blood in urine from egg laying parrot  My parrot (yellow nape) has layed 2 eggs and her urine/feces seems to have possibly a bit of blood in it...should I get her to a vet immediately, or is ...

Lump on Zebra Finch's leg or abdomen  Yesterday we noticed a large lump on our zebra finches abdomen next to her left leg, or more probably on the leg itself. Hard to tell. It's a yellowish/...

diamond sparrows   My diamond sparrow is very nice but its getting fat.Realy fat.I did everything i could i made this huge cage with plants and things but its very lazy how ...

My sun conure is keeping one of his foot tucked up  I have had my sun conure for almost a year now. I just got my sun conures nails trimmed, which I have done before and when I came home today, he is not ...

Pigeon has string around his foot  Hello, how are you going? One of my pigeons sat on the clothesline and he got string from a towell or something it looks like wrapped around one of his ...

2month old Sun Conure not eating enough and watery poop  I just got Kiwi 4days ago from the lady who was weaning her. She had a full stomach and her poop was big and solid. So i got an idea of what her poop looked ...

Scarlet Macaw Loosing Down Feathers  Hello, This past July I acquired a 2.5 year old female Scarlet Macaw. She was on consignment by her owner who could no longer care for her.

I had ...

size of eclectus parrot  i have just acquired an eclectus parrot.the breeder emphasized that it is the large sub-species of the grand parrot.is there any such thing as a large ...

Parakeet scratching frantically  My parakeet continuous scratching his back as if something bothered him, he moves his wings frantically and moves in all directions. and it has been a ...

Green Cheek Conures feathers turning black around edges  I got my Green Cheek Conure a month and a half ago from Petco. Not the best place to get a bird I know, but I fell in love with her.

Anyways, her green ...

New cockatiel is trembling  I just got a young cockatiel today, he seems content (Crest down, grinding his beak, sometimes napping) But he occasionally trembles and he has a puffed-...

Scraping his bill on the bottom bars of the cage  He is scraping his bill back and forth on the bottom bars of the cage. Both top and bottom bill. What is he doing this for, never done it before?

Cockatiel died suddenly  I had a 19 year old cockatiel. About 2 years ago we unknowingly lived in a house that had black mold in the basement. He got very sick with a lung infection ...

My parakeet quiet  Hi, I have a male parakeet who is blue/white, and he have started being quiet all of a sudden. He flies well. He lost his female (albino) mate last year....

white zebra finch swollen cheek  my bird has a swollen creek on one side . What can it be?

Unable to fly - tumor  I am holding a lutino african love bird pair. In recent days i noticed it was not able to fly and it comes up and down by holding the mesh with its beak....

rainbow lory found sick  i found a rainbow lory its about 4 months old was lying on the ground has a broken wing and cannot walk it also has a bad case of diarrhea i already have ...

bald spots on my new finches  I have a clutch of four in the last few days we have noticed them scratching and pecking at there own necks and they now have bald spots. Is this normal ...

Sun Conure acting strangly after a trip to the vet.  I brought my new Sun Conure to the vet yesterday, since then she has been acting strangly. She has been with us for 1 week, and she seemed to be doing ...

Budgie tired and lethargic, also drinks more than usual  Our usually very bright budgie has been very lethargic over the last week or so, sits around the house sleeping most of the day and is drinking much more ...

Clearing Crop?  Hi, I have several cockatiels. They are approximately 2 years old. I have had them since they were 2-3 months old. One I have had since it was a baby....

Meyers Parrot scratched feathers out around its eyes.  my meyers parrot has scratched the feathers out around his eyes and is now working on his left ear area. He otherwise seems fine. he is eating and playing ...

Lump on the back of my canaries head  Hi, My female canary has a lump on the back of her head, she has had most of the feathers pulled out by the male canary.

what do you think it could ...

Laying eggs first time  Hi My friend gave me her green cheeked conure a few months ago, we thought it was a boy she has had him for 7 years, apparently it is a girl the last week ...

wound on the vent   my amazon having wound near the vent and it bleeds twice

green cheeked conure looks like he is about to throw up  Hi, I have a green cheeked conure who is about 3 years old. Lately he has been bobbing his head up and down (beak open and wings slightly raised) as if ...

cockatoo watery poo  why does my cockatoo have very watery poo
have I been feeding it incorrectly?

cloudy eye   My 11 year old lovebird has a cloudy eye. It appears as though there may be a thin filmy substance that will not wash off. Any suggestions???

Beak pigment change  My 8 month old sun conure is nearing the end of his first moult; he is also a very petite sun nearing only 104-108g. He is now presenting with lighter ...

quaker swollow their tongue  i have a quaker bird and he got scared and went into shut down mode. he is flying and walking now but it looks like his tongue is stuck in his mouth he ...

Cockatiel  Cockatiel pecks on perch until he spits something up and then he eats it. It doesn't come all the way out of his mouth before he starts eating it back....

salted foods for birds?  Is a little bit of salt bad for green cheeked conures?

african grey with swollen left nostril  why is my congo african grey have a swollen left nostril. I have had him for 5 years. Healthy bird, good appetite very talkative. I see no other signs ...

crimson rosella  ive got a pair of crimson rosellas and the one of them has a broken pad on the side of her foot, it looks sore and inflamed and it has bled a little, she ...

Tired Budgie  i have a budgie that i bought about almost a year ago and recently in the past few days i have noticed he sleeps alot and dosent play much and today hes ...

Cockateil - wing-bone damage  Our Cockatiel whilst flying, lost height, bumping into the slanted back of the TV, he landed on the floor, kind of hunched and fluttering his R wing, After ...

Lovebird molted now flys too high and acts weird  My 8 year old male lovebird "Ipo" (means sweetheart in Hawaiian), molted recently but a few nights ago he was acting crazy in his cage throwing himself ...

Memory and human attatchments  I have a Hahns Macaw that I rescued(18 months old) and I have only just managed to find a suitable loving home for her after 15 months. The problem is ...

my cockatiels bum looks swollen  my cockateil has been fine but now it looks like his left side of his bum is swollen and hes loosing a lot of feture al round his body he has all his bum ...

Questiong concerning cordon bleu finch feather loss  We have three finches in a 15 x 15 x 15 cage. They are a society finch and two cordon bleus. However, recently the female cordon bleu has recently lost ...

wet feathers above my lovebirds nostral  i noticed tonight that my lovebird has wet feathers right above her nostral holes, there is no blockage it just looks a bit wet. she is eating fine and ...

treatment of abscess in my parrots foot and what are its causes ?  My african grey parrot has recently developed an abscess in one of his toes , I tried to prick the pus gently and he very politely removed my finger by ...

Conure needs beak trimmed  I just wanted to know how much it cost to have a conures beak trimmed?

my 1 and half months old parrot baby is always sleeping and looks tired.  my 1 and half months old parrot baby is always sleeping and looks tired. since the time i brought the baby to home when i was 20 days old it is the same....

puffed up zebra finch  My male zebra finch is puffed up he eats well and all he just puffed up and he sleeps alot
I put a towle on their cage and I leve them inside for now ...

Car sickness in Cockatoo  Our Sulfur-Crested gets car-sick when we take him to get his wings done. Is there anything we can give the poor guy? A nibble of ginger, perhaps?

baby quaker  I will be getting a baby qauker soon
how important is it to take him/her to the vet?
what do i feed my baby quaker
The lady said the bird will only ...

help i think my bird is sick  Hi i have a lovebird, Dudley who laid an egg today. I think there is a problem because there is quite a big red lump near her anal area. And when you press ...

help i think my bird is sick  my bird has a lump on it's but and when i press his tum poop comes out

Odd Wing... Sticks out funny when she walks..?  I have a parakeet, shes about a year old and i got her wings cut, but they looked perfectly fine when i looked at them. But its been a couple weeks and ...

lovebird is throwing up, not regurgetating.   My lovebird is acting very sleepy, sleeping all day long. today i saw him throw up his food, its not regurgetation (i've seen him do that and its different)...

wounded cockatoo leg not healing  my cockatoo got her leg caught in a toy. she keeps it clean but the sore wont close what can i do to help it heal

eggs and sore leg  about two weeks ago our pet female lorikeet layed ONE egg, this morning have noticed she has a sore leg, she has got another male lorikeet in the cage ...

Baby cockatiel head down  Is it normal for a baby cockatiels head to be down almost all the time?

Seperation anxiety  Hi, I have a Rainbow lorikeet (2 Years old) and a Scaley Breasted Lorikeet (2 1/2 years old). We have had them since they were born.

My partner and ...

My Cockatoos are acting very grumpy and snippy  I have two Cockatoos, a female and a male. They both have their own cages. As of late they have been, for lack of a better word, mean. I can reach into ...

Wild lorrikeet has swollen eye and sneezing  Hi we have a group of Lorikeets that frequent our place. One of our favorites was on our back door step with a swollen eye and was sneezing and rubbing ...

Pink around eye of Mitred Conure  I just purchased a Mitred Conure from a local pet store. She seemed very healthy and still does. I see no lack of appetite or playfulness. But there is ...

african grey (wings to chest, coughing/sneezing sound)  my african grey has been making an odd sneezing/coughing sound and he always pulls his wings around his chest when he does. he has also been twisting his ...

Can I put Neosproin on my Zebra Finch?  We have had our finch for a couple of months and have finally been able to have close enough contact to see he has a sore under his feathers on his chest....

sick love bird  I have a love bird about a year ago she started laying alot of eggs none hatched she is now looking dull sleepy does not move around, where I am we don'...

African grey suddenly inactive  My african grey has suddenly gone very quiet he usually talks or 'screaches' and climbs around his cage. He is eating and drinking and has no visible signs ...

Transportation  I'm concerned about transporting my macaw from the environment it has been living in (a high valley, moderate temperature of 23°C, low humidity) for over ...

One Wing Male Corella - Mating?  Our male short billed corella has one wing, due to coming to us from the wild after a collision with a car and the follow up amputation. He is nearly 3 ...

Balance issues with my African Red Bellied Parrot  My husband and I rescued an African Red Bellied parrot who is about 9 or 10 yrs old. Sometimes he will be standing on his perch or playing around in his ...

our kikes chest feathers are coming out  we have a kike had him 2 years..just noticed yesterday some of his chest feathers are coming out, today there are large clumps of chest feathers gone leaving ...

medicines for alexandrine parakeet babies in India?  hello mr.avian am Rohan from India.I have a 5-6 weeks old alexandrine parakeet and it's very healthy and active.it loves to eat food and i feed it and ...

Golden Conure with "hiccups"  my bird has been exhibitng "hiccups" or "gasping" occastionally for about 8 mo.s

Took to vet and treated for resperatory infection (got chest muscel ...

my bird has lump  hi there ive had geordie my red fronted conure for 10 years although he goes through phases of feather plucking ive had him out tonight fora cuddle and ...

my parakeet hurt his tongue  My parakeets fought And the female parakeet bit the males tongue An he's unable to eat because of the sore what should I do?

parotlett old age? or side affect of stroke?  Our mother's bird seems to be sleeping a lot (more than normal) since yesterday. We were told she is about 8 yrs. and has been seen having stroke like ...

Knee fracture  What can be done for a knee fracture other than a splint for two weeks? Can a mistake be made in not aligning the fracture properly? The vet indicated ...

Odd feather growing  This is my first bird. I've had my love bird for a couple months now but have not gotten his wings clipped because I didn't think it would matter besides ...

14 yr old parakeet no longer flies  Hi, my old 14 yr old best pal keety is in excellent health, but over the last year or two he began flying less and less--in distance and height, until ...

red factor canary lame and puffed up in corner.  My red factor canary is getting sicker and sicker. its not an emergency yet but it soon will be if i cant find out whats going on. The bird is lame and ...

Cockatoo screaming on road trips  I live in NJ & plan on driving to Florida in the next few days with my 12 year old cockatoo. However, when I go on any car trips with him, he screams ...

Sick cockatiel  My male cockatiel has dark watery eyes,is trembling, and weak and we found him on the bottom of the cage on his back and he couldnt get up! Hes sleeping ...

Knee fracture  Dear Avian Vet: Our green-cheeked conure sustained a fractured knee when she attempted to fly after chewing her wing feathers of which we were not aware....

black spot  my senegal parot has a black spot on bottom of his foot ?

lovebirds not making noise suddenly  We brought home a pair of african love birds 2 weeks ago. They have suddenly become quiet from yesterday.
we feed them seeds and fresh spinach & coriander ...

wet sneezes and breathing sounds  My quaker parrot is about 4 months old and is displaying some strange symptoms. Lately I have noticed that the area of feathers around one of his nostrils ...

Catnip safe for birds?  Is Catnip safe for my cockatoo I have a cat house for him to get away in and its treated with catnip

Bird plucking  Every few months my love bird goes through a period of laying infertile eggs. I noticed one time she was laying eggs and the top part of her chest was ...

My parakeet (budgie) twitching all night?  I've had my budge for 4 and a half years a suddenly last night he began twitching. He never went to sleep as this is still currently going on. It's so ...

galah has bare patch under wing  Our Galah has a bare patch under his right wing. It does not seem to be worrying him. He does not seem to be scratching and is not moulting. He is housed ...

Puked and poop that looks like water.  I have a Brown Throated Conure, and I am very worried about this situation. After from bathing Pheonix(the bird) I went to go get him a clean cloth to ...

3 week old baby canary injured  my baby canary that i have been hand feeding was not far from leaving the nest. i put him into the avary to see if the mother or father would look after ...

Picking out her chest feathers  Hello I have a Green Cheeked Conure and she is picking her breast feathers out. Just the small colored ones. She doesn't appear to be bleeding from this ...

Leaving My Conure for Several Days  I have a 2-year-old Green Cheek Conure named Tiki Bob. We are very close. I work from home and he "assists" me most of the day, so we spend a lot of time ...

Crop bloating and fills with air  I am a breeder and I have notices crop bloating on my baby chicks. I wait till its empty but still it fills with air. Is there any home remedy that can ...

Cockatiel prosthetic foot?  my sweet cockatielhad to have his foot amputated due to an injury. I want to get him a prosthetic foot. where can I go? who should I call?

Leave eggs or take them away?  Recently Dr B helped a breeder with this question. The concern has been that if people leave unfertilized eggs in the nest, the birds may crack and eat ...

Should I throw this bird cage out?  Hello, how are you going? :-) My name is Christina and I live in Australia. Last year when one of my pigeons had coccidiosis I bought a good bird cage ...

feathers missing  this bird i received yesterday and i find this issue with her a 29 year old a double yellow naped amazon. Under wings its bare No feathers just a bare ...

parrot not making noise  My parrot is a 2 mnth old baby with feathers grown on him....

All this while he used to make suttle noises while he was kept in the balcony or being ...

7 month old cockatoo reverted back to handfeeding  A healthy, 7 month old cockatoo that has been weaned now for about 2 months suddenly stopped eating, thinned, and cries constantly when an older cockatoo ...

Please help. Sick bird??  Hi well I may have some problems with my cockateil and I was wondering if I could tell what's wrong and maybe if you tell whether if it is or not normal ...

Bird eggs - layed first egg  What do you do with a 17-year-old nanday conure's first egg?

Confused about bird sitting on eggs  A breeder mentioned that you should always throw out broken eggs because the bird could die if they eat the insides. She also says that when my bird that ...

Broken Feathers on Cockatiel.  Hi, I recently rescued a Cockatiel and have noticed that her blood feathers are breaking and falling out easily. Im just wondering what could be wrong?...

breaking eggs  i have a breeding pair of african greys , they laid 1st egg 14th dec 2010 , 2nd egg 19th and 3rd egg 22nd , today i found that 2 of the eggs ahve large ...

Bald spot on the back of my Green-Cheeked Amazon's head  Hello there, and thank you for taking the time to read and answer my question.

I have a 7 year old Green-Cheeked Amazon who has never once had a plucking ...

my lovebird's beak  my lovebird only has one nostril that is visible. On this side of his beak he continually rubs it on his perch, mirror etc. His beak appears to be flaking ...

house paint / safety  I have some painting to do in my house is this safe for my green cheek conure?

Artificial Lighting for Indoor Birds  I have a game bird that is kept strictly indoors, except for dust baths outside in the summer time. We also have a cockatiel in the same situation. I ...

Hahns Macaw with syst on or right by oil gland.  I Have Taken my hahns To the only avain certified vet that we have within 200 miles and had blood work done and the syst drained. The Vet told me that ...

Cockatiel laying eggs  My cockatiel layed an egg yesterday but she has not really spent much time in the nest box and she burried the egg under the nesting material. Should ...

parakeet arthritis pain?  My parakeet is about 9 years old. Recently I noticed he started having problems with his right leg, it seems to pain when he puts it down on the perch....

Watery Poop  My African Gray started having watery poop this morning. It is regular, but not firm at all. He drinks, eats and acts as normal.

Please advise
Tina...

Lorikeet lice  How do you rid a lorikeet of lice? I recently found a wild lorikeet and would like to release it back into the wild. It is only a young one, we think it ...

Best food for baby Jenday Conure?  Hi, I just adopted a baby 10 week old jenday conure. I've heard from alot of sites that pellets are better than seeds for him. i know they say the base ...

strange sounds and puffed feathers  I have a question, my parakeet/ budgie (one of two) has started making strange sounds and has had its feathers puffed up very often for about a week or ...

Red Factor puffs up  My male red factor constantly looks like a big puff ball or blow fish. he does not appear ill and hops about the cage as normal. I am breeding him and ...

My Love Bird - sick  i have a few questions and would like to know a common illness for lovebirds she keeps her eyes closed and is not eating very well what can i give her

My red bellied parrot female sleeps with her tail up.   my female Red Bellied parrot sleeps at night with her head down tail up position. She seems normal otherwise. should I be concerned?

Is spinach safe for birds?  Spinach ( a no no since 1950 in animal husbandry ) is also a source of Fe and will prevent the absorption of Calcium. Yet you have it as a good food for ...

feather plucking and swollen neck  hi I got parrot few weeks back that has plucked most of its chest hair out and also it wing has lost most its feathers its neck is also swollen I want ...

Sun conure scratches ear  My conure scratches his ear and then makes a funny sound is something wrong

pink area under bottom beak swollen please help  I have an african Grey and is extremely worried.The pink area under bottom beak is swollen.She is eating and drinking.Should I be concerned and what should ...

my sunconure died  i had a 2 yr old sun conure named nunu who died on christmas day. he was totally fine in the morning. all of a sudden, he got quiet then jumped out of ...

Moulting and undigested seeds in parakeet poop  ALoha We have a one year old parakeet that recently moulted and this moulting seems longer than normal. There are still a bunch of new feathers coming ...

egg laid yesterday she is not sitting on it (red rump)  my female red rump has laid her first egg yesterday and she is not sitting on it should i be worried? how do i tell this egg is fertile and if she wont ...

Cockatoos - cover cage?  Do I put a blanket over a birds cage??

sun conure eye problems  My sun conures white area around one of her eyes looks like it is seperating at the bottom. Looks like two white areas at the bottom of that eye. It ...

My eclectus female has begun biting her wing feathers  My eclectus female has begun biting the ends of her wing feathers. She is not plucking them out, she is pulling at them. Hard enough that she looks like ...

What are thease lumps on my birds head  Hi My bird har gotten a lump right next to the beak and one right above the beak. what are they? and are they bad? He is his normal happy self eating good ...

Green cheek congested, trouble breathing.  Hi there, we have an 8 month old Green Cheek Conure, "Benji" and lately he seems to have a lot of congestion and sounds like he's got difficulty breathing,...

Parakeet Is'nt Chirping  My new parakeet will open his mouth but nothing will come out. He hasnt tweeted yet. He flew into a wall very hard and landed on his back. I am worried ...

14 year old yellow-crowned female amazon noises  My 14 year old amazon has just started making odd vocalizations which last for one minute and sound like she's having a panic attack. I don't believe ...

Sun Conure one wing flickering  Hi, I have a sun conure, and i call her Sasha. i really dont have a lot of deatils about her sex or age cause she was a rescue bird, but she surely is ...

Cockatiel w/ swollen chest  I have a 17 yr. old cockatiel, and I have been noticing that his droppings are mostly liquid here lately. Also, I was feeling his chest earlier today ...

blue and gold macaw red spots  I have a year old blue and gold male macaw. I have noticed little red dots on the white part of his face. He eats lavian fruit blend and pellets along ...

Budgie looks like he's chokng  I have a male budgie, and this morning, he kept bobbing his head up and down while opening his beak really wide and closing his eyes. He kept sleeping ...

My Bird has a big bump  My ringneck dove has like a big red bump on his stomach that he keeps picking what is it and how do we care for it it is rather large

My Alexandrine seems to be losing feathers  My Alexandrine 12-18 month old parrot seems to be losing its feathers it has just turned Summer in Australia do Parrots drop feathers in warmer conditions?...

Zebra Finches  I have a White Female Zebra Finch, and she was going bold around her bottom and her neck, But now she looks healthy and better. But ive been looking at ...

Blue Gold Macaw's red nostrils  Hi my BG Macaw has been sneezing. Initially I thought perhaps it was dust. But now after 3 months, he is still sneezing. I'm not too sure if there's any ...

Parrotlette with stiff feet  Hello, Our 11 yr. old Pacific Parrotlette is not able to grasp with his right foot and the left foot seems to be getting stiff also. He is very thin, however,...

Rainbow lori with pimple by eye  My rainbow lori has a little pimple on the side of his eye. I notice it 3 days ago. Maybe i didn't see it earlier, but it looks like it is getting bigger....

Buff Orpington HEn with swolen face  Hi have a Buff Orpington hen that has a swolen face, when she shakes her head clear liquid comes out of her eye! Can you please help me??? Thanks!

The death of my conure  My green cheek conure just recently passed a few hours ago. Two days ago he was acting absolutely normal and looked great. Yesterday morning he was very ...

Leg and/or foot hurt  My white front amazon has hurt his foot or leg or both. Will it heal on its own? What do I need to do about it.

Thanks, Teresa

blue and gold macaw nesting behavior?? - plucking  I have had my macaw for about 5 yrs, was told when she was giving to me she was between 8 and 12 yrs old? About six months after I got her she started ...

Plucking her own feathers.  About a week ago my ''Ringneck'' started plucking out her feathers on her chest and wings.Im not sure what the problem can be,and if there is one at all?...

whitness on my parakeet's feet and cere  Hi i have a albino male parakeet that has some white kind of looking fungus on his feet and his cere.i dont know what it is and how to treat it.Should ...

from india, my pet is not walking  I have a parrot one day I wa cleaning his tail and he shouted very badly and even tried to bite me I think my mistake I have pressed his legs or osmething ...

cyst on cockatiel  Hi, I have a approx. 9 yr old (male we think). About 2-3 months ago we noticed he was walking with a limp. Shortly after we noticed a lump growing on ...

Rainbow Lorikeet feather plucking issues  Ten months ago, my 7 year old Lori started plucking her feathers out. She started by scratching them off to the bare skin on the base of her head. Then ...

Ringneck weening problem... wont accept syringe anymore and wont eat weening food  I was left to raise a indian ringneck from 2.5 weeks as we had an avery and the two parents died tragically and suddenly. I had to either take it over ...

My Sun Conure Sighs   My 2 year old male sun conure makes slow, exaggerated, sigh-like noises on occasion since I've owned him (about 1.5 years). He'll exhale like this a few ...

Society Finch has red bump by nostril.  My family has recently had the pleasure of adopting 3 society finches- 2 females and a male (their sexes were quite obvious after about a week- the mail ...

blue & gold macaws feet and molting  I notice at times i remove them from there cage 2 come out 4 the day. My older boys feet r warm. As 4 my younger hers r cold. is there any alarm 4 this?...

senegal suddenly losing belly feathers  Our 10 year old senegal parrot in last 3-4 days is suddenly just flapping wings & losing the belly feathers. Looks bald now on belly. They are the small ...

Splayed Legs  Hi, I have a five and a half week old baby budgie that has just left the nesting box, and I have noticed the budgie has splayed legs, I have been informed ...

Leg Paralysis  We have a two year old Brown Headed Parrot. About a month ago she got paralysis in her right foot, the left foot soon followed. We rushed her to the vet ...

parakeet swollen vent  My name is Lisa my parakeet has this garbonzo size swelling between her vent and her tail. It droops down hanging below her vent. It is not hard but mushy ...

lovebird lower beak has fallen off  My lovebird Aoki was pulling at her lower beak for the last few days, and split the appendage in two and now the lower beak has fallen off!

Will the ...

african grey pooping lime green and not playing  Hi, I am a Supervisor for a petstore, we had two african greys arrive 8months ago, they are seperated through glass,but, can still see eachother. Recently ...

Hind toes folding forward on baby conure  I have a 3 month old Jenday who folds one of the hind toes (the inner one) forward on each foot and never unfolds it to hold a perch or finger properly....

cockatiels inactive  i have two cockatiels, since yesturday, both have been very larthargic, just sleeping all day with ruffled feathers as if they are cold, when it has been ...

redness around one eye  Hi, I noticed day before yesterday my black headed caique has a bit of red and puffiness along the top of one eye, and now I think his other eye area is ...

Lovebird Scratching  My lovebird started dragging her bottom across the perch. At first it looked sort of like humping, but she is doing it frequently throughout the day and ...

my macaw died  hi my name is sommer and i live in trinidad i had a 3 yr old blue and gold macaw and he died 2 days ago. i'm in a mess and i cant stop crying, it all started ...

Changes in droppings  Twice now I've rushed my (3 yr old) lovebird to the avian vet because I've spotted small amounts of blood in his droppings. Given a few hours of observation ...

calcivet dosage?  how much calcivet is required for hahns macaw i use one teaspoon in water

Prolapsed intestine?  I am currently handraising some young birds. Last night at feeding time, I noticed a long bloody protrusion shaped like a thick worm about 5 cm long coming ...

Lovebird sleepy and underweight  Hello, My lovebird has been very sleepy, he allways wans too sleep and he has no energy too move or fly. No and then he will run around but suddenly stop ...

Warm beak and feet.  Hi,I took my blue quaker to a bird store yesterday to get her wings and nails trimmed. When we got home I noticed that she kept lifting up her feet, I ...

amazon parrot falls  My 33 yr old amazon parrot has been falling from his perch and his feet are clinched together as if he were paralyzed for a few minutes and then he returns ...

Active female budgie wants to sleep all the time now  Hi, I have a 2.5 yr old female budgie that has been extremely active and within the last few weeks has become very tired and not as active. I have not ...

Chews white dot on back?  I received my pet parakeet 3-4 years ago. He is a bugie and he has a white dot on his back. He has had it for awhile and he keeps chewing it. at first ...

Specialist Avian Veterinarian  My parakeet was treated my one of the Best Avian Veterinarian in India with expertise in Wild life Medicine and Avian Surgery

Please go to Dr.Yuvraj ...

love bird losing feathers  My love bird who is 2 yrs old all of the sudden started losing his feathers. What could be wrong?

Black, swollen, featherless belly on my white zebra finch  My white female zebra finch has a distended area under the vent & between the legs. It is black (charcoal shade, the skin is shiny & no feathers. The vent ...

a bit swollen of the eye - lovebird  My lovebird is around 5-6 months and she suddenly has her left eye a bit swollen. Not swollen as in it's puffed and etc, but the white skin ring around ...

cockateil continual egg laying  Hi, A friend has a pet young cockateil, bred Jan 2010, (told it was a cock) it has layed a total of 10 eggs(one at a time)over the past 8/9 weeks. Droppings ...

cockatiel eye swollen  my cockatiel has no feathers around its eye and the eye is sticking together. its a bright pink swollen area near the place where the eye is closest to ...

lost 3 scarlett chested parakeet hens  I have lost 3 scarlett chested parakeet hens, two upon laying eggs. I am giving calcium, vitamins including D vitamins, kept under vita lite lamps. 3x4x6 ...

My bird has funny stick things growing on its head  Hi my Indian ringneck is nearly 3 yeas old and is just getting his black ring around his head. I know this is normal but what im not so sure about is there ...

Droppings stuck to vent   Lately our budgie has been plucking the feathers around the vent area bare. Recently we have noticed droppings stuck to the vent area. The droppings ...

Green Cheek Conure chest feathers?  Digby is 6 years old, he is my noisy baby. I moved out for 2 years and couldn't take him with me so he stayed at home with my parents. Over year ago ...

fertility of birds  I am from mumbai i have two pairs of mating birds, the first time it laid a set of eggs of 5 all hatched the second time when both the pair laid egg only ...

Female Zebra Finch losing tail feathers  I have 2 female and 2 male Zebra Finches in one large cage. The 2 males and 1 female I have had for 3 to 4 years. The other is a new female I've had ...

sorry for the long backstory  I've had my lovebird Fiji for almost a year now. The way he came into my life was stressful to begin with so i'll explain so you can see why i could think ...

Unusual noises & behaviour from a Rainbow Lorikeet  I have a young Rainbow Lorikeet who joined the household about a month ago.

Last week we noticed that she started behaving a little oddly when being ...

excessive drinking  My 13 yr old Senegal has been drinking a lot of water for about 1 yr. He will fill up his crop so much that he sometimes regurgitates. He does this throughout ...

Sudden death.  My son's green-cheek conure died suddenly two days ago. There were no symptoms of illness he just died in front of his eyes. The bird was almost two years ...

Aloe Vera Detox  I have read that Aloe Vera Detox is a good thing to do for parrots ..
what are your thoughts.

indian ring neck Parrot medicine   I have a indian ring neck female parrot. it is one year old. what are the medicine can i give her which are available in India?

female cocktiel is blown up & breathing heavy.  why would my cocktiel be blown up, breathing heavy and sitting on the bottom of her cage? Also her eyes are partly shut. Hoping you can help.


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Quaker Parrot lower beak stuck on cage door loop hook.  We have a Quaker Parrot and 2 days ago she got her beak stuck on the cage door loop where the vertical bar loops around the bar of the cage to go up and ...

Hahn Macaw growing white hair like strands.  I have a Mini Hahn Macaw who is green and I noticed that he is starting to grow all of these white strands in between his feathers around his head. Is ...

feet sore and bleeding  my canary has a sore on its foot and it bleeds what should i do and what could it be

Oven Fresh Bites or Harrison's?  I have a 10 year old conure I adopted a little over a year ago. Her feathers use to be all green (her head red) a few months later she started getting ...

Sporadic feather loss  Hello, In my flock of cockatiels (I have 19), there seems to be a feather disease that only a few (3 or so) birds exhibit. It's spordic feather loss that ...

Let me guess "Take to avian vet!!"  My budgie has a crust on his beak and starting to go to feet. My research has shown that it could be mites.

First, could mites cause this crust?

Second,...

parrott support needed   hello i have a male senegal parrot and its a few years old or could be older and one of its noistrols is blocked and he keep picking at it.

what could ...

Conjunctivitis in parakeets  I think my parakeet has pink eye, are there any over the counter medications I can give him

Green Cheek Conure Freak out  Today my green cheek conure, Boogie-2 years old, flew off my shoulder and fell to the floor (his wings were just clipped yesterday). When I picked him ...

Conure with pink under eyes  Hi I have a black capped and I noticed today that my black capped Conure has pinkish under-eye (both eyes)on the featherless normally white area around ...

bird still sick  i took my amazon bird to vet be he finished his meds and still has a cold what can I do

Puffed up Cockatiel  i have a cockatiel bird and he's very quiet and puffed up, and he has a low cherp what can be wrong?

putting parrots together  can i put a african gray in with a amozon parrot

Dusky conure - cold-like symptoms?  Dusky conure makes squeaky noises, sneezes, has a warm beak, and is maybe a little more affectionate than normal. I have a dusky conure that is about 9 ...

Bugie questions  my blue and white budgie is growing black feathers above her beak and is loosing feathers there also! she is making a strange noises as well sort of like ...

Cockatiel with unusal bubble like lumps  Sparky; our 16 yr old cockatiel has unusual bubble like lumps at the back of her neck, they do not appear to be filled with anything other than air and ...

Nail Clipping-sedation?  The vet across the street from me who owns birds but primarily deals with large animals such as horses or dogs. He recommends he sedate my pionus to clip ...

Cockatiel lump  Hi I noticed today that my cockatiel has a lump under her belly, between her legs. She has been sitting for weeks on eggs in a nesting box so I only saw ...

I think she has the sniffles. :-)  I was holding my missy, (lesser sulfer crested cockatoo) and she sounded like she had water or some kind of moisture in her airway when she took a deep ...

Eclectus with PVDD  Do you have any experience with PVDD? My Electus contracted this disease about a year ago. He is also a plucker and we lost the female due to this disease....

baby Quaker parrot ate pimple cream  Will a baby parrot die if it eats pimple cream. Because me parrot got on my dresser while I was cooking and she ate a little bit!! Will she be ok???? Please ...

Baby ringneck won't sit up  Hi i have a 6 week old indian ringneck that has been hand reared that still can't or won't sit up. It just lays on it's belly all day & crawls on it's ...

My bird has a lump over its eye and nose  Her eye also appears to be bulging a little. I have already taken her to the vet.If it is a tumor should I have them remove it or is that too risky. What ...

7 wk old budgie problems  i have just purchased a 7 wk old budgie but it dosnt seem to be walking properly and dosnt seem to stand with its legs extended is ther something rong ...

New Green Cheek Conure  We just got a 6 month old green cheek conure, he/she is very quiet and I am concerned he/she may be sick. He/She has been eating and pooping regulary ...

Is black rubber toxic?  Do you think that the natural rubber dog toys shaped like a car tire are safe for birds? sure would make a cute tire swing, but smells "rubbery"

Okay in diet or not  My conure loves whole wheat bread - any problems feeding her this? How much if yes? How often if yes? Yes is it's okay.

Conure wing twitching  I have a Jenday conure, today I noticed he seems to be twitching his right wing every few seconds. He also seems unsteady on his feet when he is climbing ...

Radishes safe for birds?  Is it ok to give my Congo African Grey radishes?

Possible broken wing on my parakeet  My cat knocked over the bird cage and carried the bird into another room...I'm assuming that's how they got there. Pretty Bird now seems to be holding ...

acquire assistance   my chickens seem to be losing feathers allot and it seems to be getting dandruff and boil type things. the chicken does not seem to be in any pain but ...

I see a disturbing trend all these birds really need to go to the vet...asap  If you had these illnesses you would go to the doc asap an So many of these parrots need to see a vet asap. Im not judging anyone im just telling it like ...

Nanday conure feather loss  I have a nanday conure aproximately 10 yrs old. he has lost all his feathers under his right wing and it looks like he is starting to lose a small amount ...

Parrot foot problem  I have a 30 yr old red-headed amazon. A few months ago he started not standing on one foot, not sure if he injured it (has a very large cage). I switched ...

bald spot on budgie  hi by budgie has a bald spot on his neck that has been there for a bout a year. feather shafts are growing but never any of the fuzzy part of the fearther....

my parakeet might be ill  his name is humberto and his brother poopy as well, humberto is more than anything to me and so is poopy, but humberto is like cupcakes on a blue savanah,...

Baby Quaker curled feet  I have a 7 week old baby quaker baby that I'm hand feeding. Her feet kind of fold/curl to the side and she doesn't seem to want to perch on our finger....

Caique with a little redness on ankle  I have a YT Caique and he's had this little pinkish patch on one of his ankles, but not the other. I didn't think much of it because he doesn't seem to ...

Sun-Day Conure missing feathers, overnight  My Sun-Day Conure (hybrid) was missing his grown feathers (sorry not sure of correct terminology) and was only showing the white down feathers on his chest ...

acupuncture  I have been asked by clients whose dog I have acupunctured to help them with their 2 1/2 year old budgie hen. She was eggbound on October 6'th , the egg ...

parrotlet in seizure??  My green parrotlet comes from a reputable breeder, and was fine when we brought him home at the beginning of the summer. About a month later, he started ...

Swelling of the Cere  Our bird flew into the bathroom mirror and hit it pretty hard & fell into the sink. At first he was a little shaken up but now he's fine, a tad bit ornery ...

Loosing Feathers  I have one parakeet and have had it now for almost 2 months. I am a little concerned because he seems to be scared of me so I can;t hold it or let it sit ...

my quaker has a broken leg  I live in chicago ill and its 10:00 pm here my little sis was holdin my little bird and when I notice he couldn't walk and his little leg goes to the side,...

lovebird with seeds in poop  my lovebird has seeds in his poop mostly millet seeds. What does that mean? he is about 5-6 years old.

Sun conure hurt claw?  I took my 1 year old conure to the groomer yesterday to have his wings clipped and nails trimmed. They took him to the back to do what needed to be done....

green cheek conure babies  my green cheek conures just hatches there eggs is it ok if i grab them to hand feed them
im am worried that the mom will kll them if they are to be touched...

greyish sac(cyst) hanging from rear of parrot (large)  had bird for more than 20 years.it developed sac about 10 years ago.asked vet if he knew anything about them.just shook his head.doesn't worry bird(sulphur ...

Stepped on my bird  He is still able to fly, hop, walk, drink and sing. Just wondering what i should look for in terms of well being. She is not shaking, or fluffed, or bleeding,...

Blood around eye. African Timneh Gray  25 yr old African Timneh Gray. Fell off perch looked like a seizure and had blood under skin white part of eye not the eye small feathers around eye. Was ...

feather plucking  what is the treatment for feather plucing in rosa bourke

Cockatiel titled head  Hi! I noticed last night (10/14/10) that my female Sweety, 8 years old, was walking around with her head hopelessly titled to the right. As I tried to ...

parakeet  Why is my bird itching his butt on his scratching post?

Love bird - Head bobbing  Hi, My love birds is about 8 months old now and a while ago he started doing this strange this with his head. He bobs his head and it kind of looks like ...

Cockatiel stopped whistling tunes.  Hi, I have a 7 month old cockatiel who used to whistle about 3 different tunes. I am a student and I bought him over the summer when I was on vacation....

constipation  How can I tell if my baby cockatiel is constipated? They are all around 2 weeks of age and seem to be pooping quite a bit. Only one seems to be acting ...

Nasty lump on my canary  My husband found a canary on the side of the street. Look like he had a injury to his eye, it was almost closed. So tookcare of him then he started to ...

Broken leg  My Budgies had 3 babies and the oldest one has just started walking out of the box but her mother went feral at her and threw her out of the cage and she ...

centre of bird eye cloudy  My sulphur crested cockatoo's eyes are now both cloudy in the centre. He is about 50 years old (approx) and is a rescue bird. He has bad wings, he can'...

seeds and my budgie  my budgie has seeds stuck to the inner side of her stomach that cannot be taked out.

one of sun conure started eating alot  i have a pair of sun conure (untamed) their sex is unknown to me. but one of my conure has started to eat a lot. as soon as he notices food in my hand,...

pink nares  my 1 yr old harlequin sneezes quite a bit-no discharge but now i notice around his nares are a bit pink-is this something to be concerned about?

i recently ...

Grey spots on mouth  Hi, I have a 7 month old senegal parrot, boy. I noticed that on edges of his skin between the beaks there are now dark grey spots. I would like to know ...

quaker parrot has runny nose and is breathithrough mouth  what can l do ther is no vet near by?

Bent tail after clipping.  I just clipped my budgie's, Mishka, wings, only half-an-hour ago or so. I noticed moments ago that her tail was bent down vertically while on her perch,...

Cockatiel has abcess between his legs.  Hello, I've had this cockatiel for about three weeks and about a week ago i noticed that he has an abscess on his tummy..between his legs and it seems ...

Quaker Parrot Poop  My quaker Parrot's poop has turned a very runny lime green color, and has a very bad oder. What can cause this?
His feathers around his butt are starting ...

Conure Bird Eye closed  The Conure bird's eye is open just a slit. Not sure if it's infected or the bird scratched the eye and is now trying to heal it by keeping it closed. Currently ...

White flecks on surface of conure's eyes  I have an 11-year-old conure who is very healthy, friendly and inquisitive. Yesterday, as he was perched on my shoulder, I noticed he has several whitish ...

How careful do I need to be about nonstick pan fumes?  Hi Avian Vet,
I'm one of those bird owners that probably errs on the side of overly cautious- I don't take any chances with my lovebird. I'm wondering ...

my cockatiel died  my pet cockatiel did not eat or drink for last 48 hours and died with seizures was six year old

Canary with twisted back claw  Just got my new Canary home and put him in his cage and then noticed that on his right foot, the back claw does not grip the perch as the other does. On ...

my cocki has stopped talking  can you tell me what could be wrong with my cockatiel, we have had it since a baby so its about 8 months old he was very chatty and said preetty boy, yr ...

why my paraket is siiting on the bottom of the cage with the beak hidden in the feathers?  i don' t know what happen my bird is sitting on the bottom of the cage for the last 3 days eat and drinking fine i have all together 4 paraketts 3 are ...

Cockatiel with dark abdominal fluid  Hi. I noticed something was wrong with my cockatiel one day when I let her out. She flew across the room and was out of breath when she landed. Shortly ...

parkeet sick  my parakeet is sleeping all the time and her head is resting on her back, what is wrong with her and what can I do? Please

Green Canary-Lost of Feathers  Hi my pet green canary has for the past few days lost a lot of little fluffy feathers he would usually lose one or two but this is a pile he dosnt look ...

Parakeet mites and feather loss  I have a male parakeet that when taken to a vet, said that my bird had mites and had picked at himself so much that he had an open wound. The vet put ...

African Grey Foot turning a brown color  I have noticed my African Grey's one foot is turning a brownish color, the other is not. He is not sore and and he moves around fine on it. Could this ...

How much formula to feed baby love bird  Hey, I recently had to take out my baby love bird who is 3 weeks old from the nest because it has splayed legs. We are now hand feeding it and i am wondering ...

feather discolouration  I have a 2 year old, highly active, male Lutino Kakariki. This morning I noticed he had a patch of brown crusty feathers on his chest. I tried to get him ...

bleeding out of beak  My African gray is bleading out of her beak. And I don't know why. We found her off of her cage and she never got off before. Please help!

black spots around nostrils  Hi I have a cockatiel that has black spots around her nostrils which come aqnd go. In herself she seems fine and eating well etc. But the last time she ...

African Grey vomits?  HI, well I just want to ask you about my african grey I dont really know what he did, he just kept moving his head up and down more than 3 times then I ...

Red Palm Oil  Greetings,

I am proudly owned by a Timneh Grey & I was wondering your thoughts on adding all natural Red Palm Oil to his diet. He was just at the vet ...

Envirox Cleaning Products  I have cleaners coming to clean my house tomorrow. I usually do it myself with bird safe ingredients such as baking soda, vinegar, olive oil, lemon/lime ...

Love bird wih enlarged left side chest.  Dear Avian Vet, We have a Love Bird and have just noticed today that it's left side of it's chest looks like he he has swelling. Need a picture let me ...

laying egg period  How long do female birds lay on eggs? My bird has been laying on 3 eggs for more than a month. Should I remove them or leave them alone?

senagal parrot swollen nostril  Hi i have a senagal parrot about 7 years old recently his left nostril has swollen and looks encristed inside he does seem fine in himself any advice please ...

Umbrella Cockatoo has crusty butt  Our Cockatoo is about 18 years old and we noticed this week she has a crusty butt and we have never seen this happen before. She has not wanted to take ...

Swelling in neck area in a lovebird  My lovebird is 18 years old and lately he has taken some falls from my shoulder. I noticed he has some swelling right above his breast bone in the neck ...

Lovebird with orange/yellow lump/bump  I have my 13 year old female lovebird with a yellow/orange bump(lump) between her legs but a little above them. Shes had this for about a week and it doesn'...

Possible cause of death of Love Brid  We had a love bird for three years (He was around 13 years old). About a year ago he developed breathing problems, was lethargic, and was on medication ...

Found parrot on road with paralysed legs.  3 days back I found a parrot lying on road.I took it home and found both of the legs paralysed, Atonic. Now feeding well. A very feeble movement is noticed ...

lessor jardine  my year old jardine's beek is turning white. Is this suppose to happen? The bird appears to be Happy & healthy. It turned a year old september 4th 2010....

Love Bird itchy tail area  I have noticed that my love bird seems to be itchy near her tail area. She keeps on shaking her tail a lot. Except for the excessive scratching near the ...

Parakeet regurgitating whole seeds?  My budgie, Kyu, is about 2 years old. He seems healthy enough aside from the fact that for the past two days he's been regurgitating these small yellow ...

cockatiel behavior  Can you tell me why my cockatiel is sputtering? it just started today. She is 2 yrs old. Her cagemate is not doing this. The only change is that I ...

Moving rear end over my hand  My cockatiel rubs her rear end on my hand while she is perched on my finger. Why does she do this?

Nanday Conure with an Itchy Beak  I have had my Nanday Conure since he was a few months old, for about ten years. Today I noticed he is grinding his beak against anything he can(this is ...

companion for bird  I have a 1 1/2 year old Meyers and I think it is boy. I am going to croak soon and although I can probably find him a good home for basic care I do not ...

Parakeet scratcing  my year old female white parakeet, seems to scratch her head often with her feet much like a cat or dog would. should I be concerned?

Green Cheek Conure Runny Droppings Sneezing  So basically, my precious green cheek conure named Marcus Junior whom I love more than anything in the world has been sneezing lately so I took him to ...

Asprin for birds?  Can a blue front amazon benefit from a small dose of asprin?

canary making strange sounds and feather loss  hi my canary is about 1 years old. he is not singing anymore but making strange clicking/breathing/scraping sounds. he is also losing feathers around his ...

Canary colour food and Finches  Hi I have 4 society finches and an apricot canary in the same cage. They all get along fine but i was just wondering if it was ok to put the red factor ...

cockatoo scratching ear  my cockatoo is scratching at her ear area and holding her mouth open while doing it does she have a ear infection or is this ok. she is new to our household ...

Puffed up budgie!  My budgie is constantly puffed up and wanders to places in the house and does not seem to be singing or as active as normal!
... he seems to be skinnier ...

Can a Parrotlet get a seed stuck in their throat?  I picked up my Parrotlet on Saturday and she died on Sunday she was 7 weeks old and eating on her own but very small. She fell off her perch and when ...

conure n parrot in same cage  Will my blue headed pionus parrot get along with my nanday conure if put in same cage?

Zebra hen, plucking tail feathers and has tiny white bump (puss?)   Hello, I just noticed yesterday that my otherwise very healthy looking Zebra has a large bald spot down her back close to her tail. The tail feathers ...

Feathery Parrotlet  I've had Bruce, a parrotlet for almost two years. Over the past summer he seemed to have been pulling or losing a good amount of his feathers. We tried ...

baby bird pink eye and sneez  i have a baby cockatiel (popet), who is 12 weeks old, since we have had popet he has been sneezing, however a week ago he begain shuting his right eye....

Two conures dead wihin twelve hours, help me understand.  I had a Red Mask and Jenday who were perfectly fine when I went to work yesterday. When I came home for work and the gym welve hours later, they were ...

Sun Conure Wing Twitch  I've had a sun conure for just under a month now, I got her from a breeder. She is almost 4 months old (she was born May 2, 2010). She has this strange ...

lovebird sick?  my lovebird is only about 5-7 months old. he walks around slightly puffed up. our house is not heated and we live in australia (temperature is about 17 ...

Budgie has turned up feathers   I found a Budgie in my garden four weeks ago and she has been very quite. but has now started to scratch and pluck at her feathers her feathers are turned ...

Swelling on B&G Macaw jaw?  I have a 5 year old Blue and Gold Macaw, and I just noticed an area on the back of his mandible below his ears that is about the size of a penny and swollen/...

Goffin with bald spot on chest  Bald spot on Goffin

botulism in duck  i think my duck my have botulism, how do i treat her

Alexandrine Parrot discoloration  I have noticed a discoloration on my Alexandrine Parrot's head, what could cause this? It has happened twice now.

Pet sitting for a Green Cheek Conure that plucks...  Hi, I'm pet sitting for a green cheek conure that has a history of plucking. I've had her at my house for 4 days now and she'll be with me for another ...

Rhododendrons branches safe?  Rhododendrons - Are they poisonous or can birds chew their branches? Thank you.

Help! peachface lovebird sick  my lovebird's tail is bobbing up and down when breathing. and there is a slight swell in the tummy. her stool is watery(excess urine) and sometimes have ...

budgie  My budgie is about three and a half years old. Over the past week I have noticed the feathers around her right eye have been worn away so her skin is visible....

Lorikeet with lame feet  My healthy Rainbow Lorikeet bird has just been given to my parents and it has now gone lame- feet curled up,this also happened to my Brother's bird, same ...

african grey help !"!!  i have a 2 year old african grey i have owned him since he was 3 months old, but the past 2 days he dusnt seem rite, hes playing and talking like his normal ...

cold/virus from humans?  Can my Meyers parrot catch a cold or virus from the humans he is in contact with?

Green Tongue  My pet Budgie has a green tongue at first I thought it could be green wood or dye or something but there's none of that around his cage and he also has ...

Maroon Bellied Conure ate several sand size plastic parts  Hello Avian Experts, My 2.5 yr old maroon bellied conure ate a few little parts from a clip in my hair. They are about the size of sand. It thought I ...

Biting foot  my Budgie constantly bites his foot an I can I don't know why.

Barfing bird  hi my names adnan my dusky headed conure is in perfect condition but hes afraid of being left alone in a room and screams really loud and he or she knows ...

my hen pretends to lay eggs  About a month ago,my Rhode island red,who layed an egg a day,stoped producing eggs. Every day,she goes through the motions of crowing before the act,siting ...

budgie foot problem