Aussie Finch Forum

BENSONSAN wrote:far out!! is this common in parrots!!?? Ive only got my pair of masked and there fine but this is a bit distressing would be horrible to have something nail all of your birds. Do many aussie parrots get it? And finches cant?

interested.

Lorikeets, Cockatoos, lovebirds, king parrots, etc.

My understanding is that the parrot circovirus is a different strain to the finch circovirus and can’t be transferred between the species. Only the parrot circovirus can infect parrots.

Quarrion are ( so I'm told ) the least likely to get B + F .

What about foreign birds like conures a lovebirds a such? I'm sure they can but is it rife?

I know of Quakers that have contracted it from a wild Scaly Breasted . Owner rescued it ( the Scaly )thinking it was a baby and put it in with the Quakers ...

One of the symptoms of B + F in adult wild birds is inability to fly and squawking to be fed , people pick them up thinking they are young birds that need help .

jusdeb wrote:people pick them up thinking they are young birds that need help

Like soft hearted sucker Deb!!!!!!!!!

Yep ..I did and near broke my heart when we had to send her away , but happy ending she came back all clear ... photos of sus looking Corella below .



Bubba looking very much like a B + F sufferer to the trained eye .



Now after getting rid of the mites , the fungus around her tail feathers and vent from sitting in stagnant water and a good diet .

Now all rescued birds dont go any further than the garage until WIRES picks them up . How lucky were we that she didnt have B + F .

jusdeb wrote:Quarrion are ( so I'm told ) the least likely to get B + F .

Cockatiels could get circo, although psittacosis is the big problem with cockatiels.

jusdeb wrote:Yep ..I did and near broke my heart when we had to send her away , but happy ending she came back all clear ... photos of sus looking Corella below .


Bubba looking very much like a B + F sufferer to the trained eye .


Now after getting rid of the mites , the fungus around her tail feathers and vent from sitting in stagnant water and a good diet .

Now all rescued birds dont go any further than the garage until WIRES picks them up . How lucky were we that she didnt have B + F .

I have nothing to do with cockatoos because they are a particularly high risk group.

Beak and Feather disease can be found in any parrot species. It is quite common in many native parrots & cockatoos but also in lovebirds. Less common in South American parrots because it doesn't occur in the wild in South America. It does occur in the wild in Australia, Asia/pacific and Africa.
As Hammer stated, it is quite uncommon in cockatiels.
Some finches can get their own circovirus as can crows, pigeons and other species. These are different to the parrot form.

The message is: don't allow wild parrots to come into direct contact with your own parrots, especially young birds (and the elderly).

Yep they could get B + F Hammer but for some reason they rarely do . Maybe the cure lies with why Quarrion have some level of immunity to the disease .