Necrotic Enteritis Kills Many Wild Rainbow Lorikeets Necropsy #2 230810

[rhiaforever101]

o.o



[rebeccahwills]

Wow!!

[chluaid]

Absolutely fascinating. This should be shown in schools, despite what some would call "graphic" content. I live in the Blue Mountains, and I thought I was being clever when I converted an old satellite dish into a bird feeder that brings crimson rosellas and king parrots to my office window every day. I clean it off every 2-3 days but thanks to this necropsy I'll be replacing the dish with a trough-style feeder. Sincerely, thanks for this.

[DoctorRossPerry]

@chluaid Thanks so much for this feedback. Please tell your friends including "our children" and spread the world quickly. There is so much we can do using the internet to quickly raise our appreciation of and for birds around the world and the quality of care and life of those we place in our custody. Around the world there are many many birds being stuck in tiny often poisonous cages with lots of health hazards alone without a partner for life. Please help me change that by sharing links!

[chluaid]

@DoctorRossPerry I actually found you by googling 'Currawong leg scale" as we have two regular currawong visitors with the condition. I'm now equipped with a bit of knowledge thanks to that series. It's great to see other people giving their time rehabilitating these poor fellas. I once spent 4 hours carefully unsticking a tiny lizard from one of those disgusting cockroach glue traps. Sadly he was surrounded by corpses of 20+ others, but happy to say he survived, all his tiny claws intact :)

[DoctorRossPerry]

@chluaid Currawong leg scale is not a term I had considered people will search for, so thank you so much for sharing that with me. I say thank you for your compassion and persistence with the lizard and for highlighting the inappropriateness & hazards of the cockroach glue traps that concurrently entrap heaps of other creatures that benefit our ecosystem and cause them a slow lingering death. Many pest control companies cruely use similar glues under eves out of sight of the public for birds.

[DoctorRossPerry]

It is one of the ways vets learn aspects of what is happening in flocks of wild and captive birds, and what we might have done differently sometimes. I have necropsied another 3 wild lorikeets since, each with different findings, each videod but not yet published. Gruesome videos... not sure whether or not to publish them yet. Need more feed back! Ross

[willobird]

@DoctorRossPerry

Yes, please publish these videos. You are a fine teacher.

[willobird]

It is very interesting to see the insides of a bird while you describe it.