Orange Bellied Story

[maz]

So somewhere, someone has stuffed up.

And to think, birds from this facility have been sent to all the other captive facilities...

And then birds have been released into the wild population from said facilities.....

[SamDavis]

The vaccine has been ready for 20 years + - nobody want's to pay for it to be registered

Goodness me. That's a very sorry state of affairs for all parrots (including OBPs).

...The Australian bird market is too small to make the vaccine registration worthwhile.

I've no idea how vaccine registration works, but surely there's a worldwide market? What sort of money are we talking about?

[Myzomela]

There would have been a worldwide market, except that the incidence of PBFD in parrots in the US and Europe has dropped to nearly zero since they stopped importing legally wild-caught birds from overseas. Now it remains endemic mainly in budgies & lovebirds there.

They have bigger fish to fry over there like Proventricular Dilatation Disease (macaw wasting Disease) etc

[MadHatter]

So somewhere, someone has stuffed up.

And to think, birds from this facility have been sent to all the other captive facilities...

And then birds have been released into the wild population from said facilities.....

I'm sure all release birds would be thoroughly screened before release and any potential health risks they might pose to the wild population would be carefully considered.

[arthur]

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[Myzomela]

Arthur, you're such a cynic!

[finches247]

[arthur]

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Arthur, you're such a cynic!

Cynic . .

Try this for cynic . .

[arthur]

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Or this . .

[BluJay]

I would almost be certain that if it weren't for bird breeder's, lots more would be indangered. It is the person fancy that saves them. Thank goodness PETA isn't in Australia!