Best For Birds

Bird flu, also known as avian influenza, is a potentially fatal illness that has garnered a great deal of media attention. But, although you may have heard of the illness, you may still be wondering how to recognize the symptoms and how to differentiate it from other types of flu. In order to better understand the symptoms, it is helpful to have a greater understanding of the disease itself.

As with other forms of flu you are already familiar with, bird flu is spread by a virus. Generally, the symptoms are treated by keeping the patient more comfortable as the body fights off the disease.

The bird flu virus is carried in the intestines of wild birds. These birds, however, do not exhibit any symptoms from the disease. Domesticated birds, such as ducks, chickens, and turkeys, on the other hand, can become very ill and will even die from the disease.

The symptoms for those birds with a mild case include ruffled feathers and a decrease in egg production. In a severe case, however, birds will generally die within 48 hours as the virus systematically shuts down various organs within the bird’s body.

In order to become infected with bird flu, a bird must come into contact with the excretions from a contaminated bird. This can include direct contact as well as contact with materials or other items that came in contact with the excretions. Although humans generally do not catch a virus from a bird, there have been more than 100 documented cases of humans with bird flu reported since 1997. Most of these cases were the result of the human coming in direct contact with a bird that was infected.

Recognizing bird flu symptoms can be quite difficult because some individuals that have been infected by the virus have exhibited symptoms that are normally associated with the flu. These symptoms include, cough, fever and sore throat. Other symptoms that are not typically associated with the flu include, eye infections, pneumonia, severe respiratory diseases (i.e. acute respiratory distress syndrome)and other life threatening complications.

A person exhibiting bird flu symptoms must undergo testing in order to confirm that the illness is the result of a bird flu virus. Although it is potentially deadly for the infected person, the bigger concern surrounding the disease is the possibility of mutation while in a human and becoming better capable of spreading from human to human. In this case, it would be difficult for scientists to prevent the spread of the disease because there are currently no vaccinations against the virus and because viruses tend to become resistant to medications used to treat them.

Sandra Clair
http://www.articlesbase.com/non-fiction-articles/bird-flu-symptoms-you-should-be-aware-of-for-safety-of-your-family-138836.html

We have an umbrella cockatoo that came from Florida. The young woman from whom I purchased it promised to send me his "papers" but they have not been forthcoming. The bird’s leg band indicates that he was born in Florida in 1997 and the breeder’s identification letters are HAI. I have tried to find breeders in FL using GOOGLE but with no luck. The young woman said that the bird was 5 years old but the leg band indicates that it is nine years old. I don’t actually NEED the papers but just a mystery tha I am trying to solve.

This (closed) band was put there BY THE BREEDER to attest to the fact the parrot was bred in captivity, and not taken from the wild. Wild-caught parrots wear an (open) band on their leg to denote this distinction. Each breeder is left to do their own thing" re: banding inscriptions. "HAI????" means nothing to anyone but the breeder. It is a code used as part of the breeder’s internal system of record keeping. HAI means whatever the breeder wanted it to mean…and likewise 1997 does’t necessarily mean hatch year…it means… whatever the breeder wanted it to mean. Again, the banding inscription is for the breeder’s OWN record-keeping system. Rotten Luck, eh? But then again…
This same question keeps coming up again and again and again here on Yahoo and elsewhere. If the breeder were indeed traceable via inscription, breeders would be inundated with requests for information about this bird and that bird and on-and-on-and-on..AD INFINITUM. Their responsibility must stop somewhere. They have a job to do and IT’S DONE NOW.

THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOUR EMAIL, MY ATTEMPT TO RESPOND TO YOU FAILED. pls. email cciglan@yahoo.ca
directly, tx.

I built an aviary/cage outside to keep my love bird in so that it would have more space and I’m wondering if it’s a good idea or not to keep a dove in the same enclosement at the same time.

In the wild and in Zoos many birds are living in the same space. I will add that they almost always have a mate of the same breeding. Get each its own mate.

I don’t know if it violates animal cruelty laws.
I’ve gotten a lot of negative heat for this question. It should be noted that is only a question and I would like to know if someone (a friend) could be held accountable for this stupid behavior. At any rate I love all feedback from people who thought I was talking about myself and not some one else.
Also I’d be curious to know why so people would consider killing a robin illegal (which I would strongly agree with), but not decapitating an innocent turtle in a grocery store or allowing the grocery to sell a turtle to someone that they know is going to kill in a cruel way?

I hope a really nasty alligator finds you annoying and bites you in the butt.

MOMMA BIRDS!

i have a greenwing macaw. he has a band on him. the identification number is DGHCA047. does anyone know a site where i can put this in and will give me info on him or does anyone know how to figure this out?

thanks =]

I found out when I took my moluccan cockatoo in to get groomed at a exotic bird pet store. Her band read "CRT 169". He told me that each breeder has a code-and the CRT was their code. And then he said that the 169 meant she was banded in January of 1969. So, I’m not sure if that helps you or not, but your vet or groomer may be able to tell you more about where to look-good luck! It’s fun to find that stuff out!

Such as in: "A few million years ago, around the Pliocene epoch, the isthmus known as Central America connected North America to the formerly isolated continent of South America. This led the indigenous organisms of each continent to migrate to the other continent. One of the consequences of the Great American Interchange is that more efficient predatory mammals from North America extinct the South American Terror Birds."

I don’t like it. This is something we do in American English these days, using a verb as a noun, or using an intransitive verb as a transitive one. It’s not technically wrong because American English is ‘descriptive’ rather than ‘prescriptive’. Over the years many new words have come about, and new uses for old words, just because people used them that way. The people who write dictionaries and style manuals base them on how people use words, not how ‘experts’ say we should use them.

But I think it would be more understandable, and less jarring to language Nazis like me, if you just said that the more efficient predatory mammals drove South American birds extinct, or drove them to extinction.

why do they do that

It is attacking his reflection. He probably has a nest nearby and thinks he is protecting it.

Our home is invested with fleas and we want the gone for the dog’s and our own sake. We have eight birds (cocketiels, parakeets, finches). How can we get rid of the fleas without harming the birds or ourselves? We don’t have a lot of money right now so something that’s not too expensive.

You have to get rid of the fleas on the dogs too. Get something like Advantage which works wonders to get rid of fleas. Don’t get that cheap crap from the pet store. Many dogs are allergic to it. Also get safe spray from the vet. . It may seem expensive but it it works and flea spray from the pet store is expensive also and doesn’t work.An adult flea can lay several hundred eggs a day. I have 2 dogs and 4 cats and I don’t have any fleas in the house at all.There is no cheap way to get rid of fleas. . Also Vacuum daily.Vacuum up a little Sevin in the vac bag so the eggs won’t hatch in there.Good Luck.

i texted kgb and asked nobody seems to know…haha can anyone tell me what kind of bird it is?

It is a double-head eagle icon inspired by Imperial Russian Court awards bestowed upon the brand in the late 1880s. The double-heade eagle is also the icon of the Russian State.