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Sick Amazon
Brian Speer, DVM
My vet is on holiday. Cybil an Orange-winged Amazon is 5 years old and untame. She has been here 2 months. She is a re-homed bird and has come with negative test for psittacosis, beak and feather...
Do birds and parrots have a different blood type?
Brian Speer, DVM
Do parrots have blood types? In fact do birds in general have blood types? Is a chicken’s blood different from a parrot’s or sparrow’s blood? Just wondering.
Ear problem in a macaw
Brian Speer, DVM
Dear Dr. Speer, I wrote to you here some time back about an ear problem with our Macaw. After your response, we took her to an avian vet in Guadalajara, she was X-rayed and the results showed a...
Lesions on wild Amazona chicks
Brian Speer, DVM
I am currently studying Amazona barbadensis on island of Bonaire. One of the things we do is regular monitoring of nests throughout the breeding season. A few days ago I came across these lesions...
Possible seizure disorder
Brian Speer, DVM
Between February and March of this year, my Monk parakeet, Freddy, started to show some concerning symptoms, by suddenly falling from his perch, particularly in the evenings. When he tried to fly...
Wing web and axillary dermatitis
Brian Speer, DVM
I have a Noble/Hahn’s macaw who is close to 20. He used to get ulcerations under his wings in the summer, right at the wing/body angle. I thought they were yeast because they exuded a whitish...
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