Bird Diseases and Common Health Problems

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Beauty of Birds Editorial Team

September 16, 2021 · Updated November 29, 2022 · 3 min read

The author of this article is separate from the Beak School training courses and their instructors.

Here is the list of Bird Species and Diseases and their Symptoms and Potential Causes. They are most susceptible to their Avian Pain Assessment & Management.

Symptoms and Potential Causes … Bird Species and Diseases They are Most Susceptible to … Avian Pain Assessment & Management


Index of Avian Diseases


Bird Diseases / Alphabetic Listing


Bird Diseases

Air Sack Mites … Air Sack Rupture …. Anatomy (Avian) … Angel Wing … Arthritis … Aspergillosis

Avian Flu (Green and Healthy Website)

Avian Goiter (Thyroid Hyperplasia or Dysplasia) … Avian Encephalomyelitis (AE) … Avian Gout

Avian influenza: Eradication from commercial poultry … Avian Influenza (Green and Healthy Website)

Avian Pox … Avian Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium avium)

Bacterial Infections … Baldness … Beak and Feather Disease … Beak Problems / Deformities

Bird Fancier’s / Breeders Lungs (Allergic Alvolitis) (Green and Healthy Website)

Bird Flu (Green and Healthy Website)

Bird Mites … Biting Bugs / Mites … Bleeding

Blepharitis (Green and Healthy Website)

Blindness … Blocked Gizzard … … Borrowing Mites …

Metabolic Bone Disease:

Occurs as two forms:

rickets which is found in growing birds – caused by an inadequate dietary intake of calcium, phosphorous and vitamin D3 or improper calcium to phosphorous ratio.

osteomalacia (osteodystrophy) occurs in mature birds.

Botulism … Breeding-related Problems … Broken Beaks … Broken Blood Feathers / Bleeding from Feathers … Broken Legs / Toes … Bronchitis … Bumble Foot … Burns (Green & Healthy Website)

Canary Pox Virus … Candida / Candidiasis … Cancer … Canker (Trichomoniasis, more commonly known as “pigeon canker) … Cataracts … Changes in Voice

Chick Deformities … Chlamydia / Chlamydiosis … Chronic Egg Laying … Crooked Beaks… Cryptosporidium / Coccidia … Coccidiosis … Conjunctivitis … Constricted Toe Syndrome … Conure Bleeding Syndrome (CBS) … Crooked Toes … Crop Mycosis, Thrush

Depluming Scabies … Diabetes

E-coli Infection … Egg Binding … Egg Laying (Chronic) … Egg Yolk Peritonitis / Egg Peritonitis … Emphysema … Eye Problems

Fatty Tumors … Feather Cysts / Feather Lumps … Feather Disorders … Feather Lice … Feather Plucking / Chewing … Fibromas … Avian Foot Chewing, Stomping, and Mutilation: The elusive cause: Avian Herpes Virus!

Fowl Cholera … French Molt … Frost Bites … Fungal Infections … Toe Curling

Giardia … Gizzard (Blocked) … Gout

Heavy Metal Poisoning … Hemochromatosis

Hypothyroidism (Green & Healthy Website)

Infectious Bronchitis … Infectious Sinusitis

Influenza (Green & Healthy Website)

Injured / Cracked / Broken Beaks … Iron Storage Disease aka Iron Overload Disease (IOD)

Joint Diseases

Kidney Disease / Problems … Knemidokoptes pilae

Lameness: Limping / Foot & Leg Problems – including paralysis and leg weakness … Laryngotracheitis … Lead Poisoning … Limping … Lipomas (Tumors) … Liver Disease … Loss of Voice

Macaw Wasting Disease … Marek’s Disease … Megabacteria / Megabacteriosis … Metal Poisoning … Mites & Lice … Moniliasis (Crop Mycosis, Thrush) … Mutilation … Myialges Nudus … Mycobacterim

Neuropathic Gastric Dilatation … Newcastles Disease … Nutritional Disorders

Obesity … Overheating

Paralysis / Weak Legs … Papilloma … Parrot Beak (Deformed) … Parrot Fever … PBFD … Psittacosis / Chlamydiosis / Ornithosis … PDD … Polyuria … Poisoning … Polyoma … Pox Virus … Prolapsed Cloaca … Psittacine Beak & Feather Disease.

Regurgitation … Renal Failure… Respiratory Distress / Diseases … Runny Droppings

Salmonella / Salmonellosis … Sarcocystosis … Scaly Face Mites … Scaly Legs / Feet Disease … Scissors Beak … Seizures … Self / Skin-Mutilation … Skin & Feather Disorders … Slipped Wing … Splay Leg

Staph Infection / Staphylococcus (Green & Healthy Website)

Stargazing

Tassle Foot … Teflon Poisoning … Toes – Crooked … Tuberculosis … Tumors (Cancer) … Tumors (Fatty) … Toxicities / Poisoning / Ingestion

Visceral Gout … Voice (Loss or or Changes in) … Vomiting

Watery Droppings … Weight Gain / Weight Loss

West Nile Virus (Green & Healthy Website)

Wing Problem / Angel Wing

Yeast Infections

Xanthomas (Fatty Tumors)

Zinc Poisoning … Zoonotic (Animal / Human) Diseases

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