Bird Diseases and Common Health Problems
Beauty of Birds Editorial Team
September 16, 2021 · Updated November 29, 2022 · 3 min read
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
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)
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
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)
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)
Xanthomas (Fatty Tumors)
Zinc Poisoning … Zoonotic (Animal / Human) Diseases
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