Live at the Bird Lover’s Expo!
We try to make the hospital experience as stress free as possible for our patients. Bobo is an elderly Lorikeet who loves this swing, and we'd often find her dozing off on it 🥰
What do you think these Lorikeets are chatting about? 🤔💚
Can you believe Keiko just woke up from anaesthetic after a suprelorin implant and a blood draw??
Lorikeets are such playful birds, they love to use their whole body to display their emotions though dancing, acrobatics and talking. Even in the wild you will hear and see their antics, whether it is through flock behaviour or attempting to find a mate 🌺
Sky the Parrotlet enjoyed some quality time with the nurses after hours while he stayed with us 🥰
Ashling has been in hospital the past week for treatment of renal failure and diagnostics. She's such a friendly and gorgeous Rainbow Lorikeet, and we hope she has a fantastic Christmas with her family at home 🎄🌟
We try to provide as much enrichment as possible for our hospital birds, especially the ones that are here for more than a day. Birds become so bonded to their humans, and it can be stressful to be in an unfamiliar location without interaction. Most tame birds enjoy a head scratch or a bit of time to walk around or sit on our shoulder as part of their hospital stay.
The team at Melbourne Bird Veterinary Clinic wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and thank you as always for your ongoing support!
We will return to normal hours on 28/12/2022 9am. For emergencies please contact your closest emergency centre for stabilisation and monitoring.
Phoenix is a young Alexandrine Parrot who dislocated his hip when his foot got caught in his cage and he was left dangling. The injury was quite severe, and it was necessary to do surgery to replace the hip and repair the joint. Please watch your birds carefully and check cages and toys for possible places where these sorts of injury could occur. Happy to report that Phoenix is now doing well and using the leg after the surgery.
Removing stricture from Eclectus Parrot's toe
Baby Bird is an Eclectus Parrot who had a constrictive band around his toe, here Dr Matt Gosbell does surgery to remove the stricture and save the toe.
*Thanks Richard for pointing out our error!
While male parrots don't have phalluses, drakes have quite large ones and they sometimes get damaged, which happened to Herbie. This video shows Dr Maddie Rowe doing surgery to repair the damage.
Egg removal surgery in an Eclectus Parrot
Fleur, a female Eclectus parrot, had a distended abdomen in which we could feel at least one egg but she was not passing it in reponse to medical treatment. X-rays showed there were at least 2 fully formed eggs so Dr Amber Lee carried out abdominal surgery to remove these and then did an implant with Suprelorein to prevent Fleur from laying further eggs. The reason the eggs could not pass was because they had reversed up the oviduct and were lying free in the abdominal (technically the coelom) rather than moving normally along the oviduct they way they should. This is uncommon but happens from time to time, surgery is the only way to fix it. Fleur recovered well and is happily back with her human family
