Birds

Question 0

What are the two types of bird orders?

Answer 0

Psittaciformes and passeriformes

Question 1

What is the class for birds?

Answer 1

Aves

Question 2

What are three other orders?

Answer 2

Anseroformes
Falconiformes
Galliformes

Question 3

What are anseroformes?

Answer 3

Ducts

Question 4

What are falconiformes?

Answer 4

Falcons and eagles

Question 5

What are galliformes?

Answer 5

Chickens and turkeys

Question 6

Where can an IM injection be given in a bird?

Answer 6

In the keel bone, thigh, and pectoral muscles

Question 7

Where can an SQ be given?

Answer 7

Inguinal and axillary areas

Question 8

Where can blood be collected?

Answer 8

Medial metatarsal vein, jugular vein, basilic vein, toenail clipping or skin procl

Question 9

Which jugular vein is bigger?

Answer 9

Right side

Question 10

What is the coelomic cavity?

Answer 10

Only cavity, contains all organs

Question 11

what is the crop?

Answer 11

Extension of esophagus where food sits for a while

Question 12

What is bird waste made uf?

Answer 12

Small amounts of urea, mostly uric acid crystals

Question 13

What is the cloaca?

Answer 13

Space where reproductive tract, GI tract, and UI tract empty into

Question 14

What are two morphological in psittaciformes?

Answer 14

Hooked maxilla and two digits forward and two back

Question 15

What birds are considered psittacines?

Answer 15

Budgerigar, parakeet, cockatiel, parrot, lovebird, conure, macaw, cockatoo, and lorie

Question 16

What are three characteristics of passeriformes?

Answer 16

3 forward digits, 1 hind toe, no hooked maxilla

Question 17

What birds are included in passiformes

Answer 17

Canary, finch, minaw

Question 18

What are three important components to a birds natural environment?

Answer 18

Open space for movement and exercise. Sensory stimulation. Access to a variety of foods

Question 19

What are four components to a cage?

Answer 19

Must be large enough to provide full body extension. Cage material should be strong, non-toxic and easy to clean, metal bar width and spacing should be appropriate, should have pull out tray (daily)

Question 20

What are four components or bird perches?

Answer 20

Should have variable diameter, made of non-toxic material, one or more necessary, place above cage floor away from food and water bowls

Question 21

How many toys in a birds cage should be in there at one time?

Answer 21

1-2 and rotate

Question 22

How much sleep do birds need a night?

Answer 22

12hrs

Question 23

How often should birds be fed?

Answer 23

2 times a day

Question 24

What is included in a birds diet?

Answer 24

Vitamins, minerals, energy

Question 25

Where do birds get their energy?

Answer 25

From fat, CHO, and protien

Question 26

Where do birds get their sources of fat?

Answer 26

Oil seeds: sunflower, safflower, peanuts

Question 27

Where do birds get their carbs?

Answer 27

Non oil seeds: millet, canary seed, hulled oats While grain bread Monkey biscuits

Question 28

Where do birds get their protiens?

Answer 28

Mature legumes: peas and beans Hard cooked eggs Cheese Yogurt

Question 29

Where so birds get their vitamins and minerals?

Answer 29

Fruits and vegtables

Question 30

What will formulated diets do?

Answer 30

Incorporate all nutrients birds need into a pellet

Question 31

What does a parrots food consist of?

Answer 31

80% pelleted food, 20% dark green and yellow vegies with fruits and seeds as treats

Question 32

What is grit?

Answer 32

Non digestible little rocks and helps break down the food animals eat.

Question 33

What is grit not recommended for?

Answer 33

Psittacines

Question 34

What gland do birds use to groom their feathers?

Answer 34

The uropygial gland

Question 35

What can you do to help improve feather appearance?

Answer 35

Mist/wet feather and clean with dawn

Question 36

So birds have sweat glands?

Answer 36

Nope!

Question 37

Where is the fleshy band around a birds nose called?

Answer 37

Cere

Question 38

What are the five types of feathers?

Answer 38

Remiges, reticles, coverts, pin feathers, plume and semi plume feathers

Question 39

What are contour feathers?

Answer 39

Superficial feathers

Question 40

What are Remiges?

Answer 40

Long feathers on wings

Question 41

How many Remiges are there per wing?

Answer 41

20

Question 42

Which feathers are the flight feathers?

Answer 42

Primary feathers

Question 43

Which feathers are the primary Remiges?

Answer 43

Feathers 10-1 starting at distal end of wing

Question 44

What are reticles?

Answer 44

Long feathers on the tail

Question 45

What are coverts?

Answer 45

Small feathers covering the body

Question 46

What are pin feather?

Answer 46

Growing feathers

Question 47

What are plume and semi plume feathers?

Answer 47

Feathers under other feathers

Question 48

What is the rachis?

Answer 48

Shaft with the barbs

Question 49

What is the calamus?

Answer 49

Shaft without barbs

Question 50

What are barbeols?

Answer 50

Extension of small interlocking extensions from barbs

Question 51

When does molting occur?

Answer 51

At least once a year

Question 52

What can effect birds molting times?

Answer 52

Season, temp, and nutrition

Question 53

How long can molting last?

Answer 53

Can extend over a period of months

Question 54

How much does a birds metabolic rate increase when molting?

Answer 54

30%

Question 55

What is the sternum/keel bone?

Answer 55

Broad attachment point of flight muscles

Question 56

What bones are the wings made of?

Answer 56

Fused carpal metacarpal bones

Question 57

What bones are the legs made of?

Answer 57

Fused tibiotarsal and tarsometatarsal bones

Question 58

Does a bird have a pubic symphysis?

Answer 58

No

Question 59

What bones is the pelvis made of?

Answer 59

Fused lumbar and sacral vertebraesynsacrum

Question 60

Why do birds have air sacs?

Answer 60

It helps them extract oxygen more efficiently by getting oxygen while exhaling also

Question 61

Where are the vocal chords?

Answer 61

Located in syrinx

Question 62

Where is the syrinx?

Answer 62

Found just before celomic cavity

Question 63

What is the crop?

Answer 63

Dials toon of esophagus

Question 64

What are the two parts of a birds stomach?

Answer 64

Proventriculus and ventriculus

Question 65

What is the proventroculus?

Answer 65

Glandular stomach

Question 66

What is the proventroculus?

Answer 66

Gizzard, muscular stomach

Question 67

What is vitamin C?

Answer 67

Absorbing acid

Question 68

Why do birds produce unrates?

Answer 68

To preserve water

Question 69

Describe the birds kidney

Answer 69

Divided into three sections and excretes nitrogenous waste mostly as uric acid crystals

Question 70

What does the female birds reproductive organs include?

Answer 70

Only A left ovary and oviduct

Question 71

What is feather picking?

Answer 71

Chewing and plucking of its own feathers by a bird

Question 72

What are some causes of feather picking?

Answer 72

Preening in courtship or removing from brood patch. Allergies, psychological

Question 73

What can cause allergies in birds to make them start feather pickings?

Answer 73

Fungal or bacterial skin infections, parasites (external/internal) endocrine disease, liver disease, zinc toxicity

Question 74

What is bumble foot or pododermatitis?

Answer 74

Infection and inflammation of the skin on the foot caused by trauma

Question 75

What can cause bumble foot?

Answer 75

Sand paper perches, long toenails, vitamin A deficiency

Question 76

How can you prevent bumble foot?

Answer 76

Non abrasive perches of varying diameter and nutrition

Question 77

How do you treat bumble foot?

Answer 77

Bandaging

Question 78

What is knemidocoptic mange

Answer 78

Caused by scaley leg mites, causes dry scaling and crust formation on face, beak, vent, and legs

Question 79

How do you diagnose knemidocoptic?

Answer 79

Skin scraping

Question 81

How do you treat knemidocoptic?

Answer 81

Insecticidal dusts, ivermectin IM

Question 82

What can cause an overgrown beak?

Answer 82

malocclusion, malnutrition, or systemic disease

Question 83

what can hypocalcemia lead to?

Answer 83

stunted growth, deformed bones, bone fractures, and seizures in African grey parrots

Question 84

what can hypovitaminosis A lead to?

Answer 84

formation of white plaques on skin in and around mouth and eyes. recurrent ocular/respiratory infections

Question 85

what is non-stick cookware toxicosis?

Answer 85

teflon heated pans heated to >540F can cause pulmonary hemmorrage

Question 86

what can cause egg binding?

Answer 86

malnutrition, excessive egg production, malformed eggs, obiesity, lack of exercise, stress

Question 87

what bird disease is zoonotic?

Answer 87

chalmydiosis

Question 88

what causes chlamydiosis?

Answer 88

chlamidophila psittaci

Question 89

what are sighns of chlamydiosis?

Answer 89

anorexia, ruffled feathers, ocular/nasal discharge, diarrhea, can be asymptomatic

Question 90

how is chlamydiosis transmitted?

Answer 90

feather/fecal dust, respiratory secretions. inhaling or ingestion

Question 91

what can treat chlamydiosis?

Answer 91

doxycycline antibiotic treatment

Question 92

what is beak and feather disease?

Answer 92

viral disease that causes deformed feathers, overgrown/deformed beak, immunosuppression

Question 93

what is a distinguishing characteristic of beak and feather disease?

Answer 93

effects all feathers

Question 94

what tests can test for beak and feather disease?

Answer 94

blood abd serology test

Question 95

what can transmit beak and feather disease?

Answer 95

feather/fecal dust

Question 96

what are the signs of egg binding?

Answer 96

anorexia, depression, wide stance, straining, shock, death

Question 97

how do you treat egg binding?

Answer 97

calcium and Vit A and D injections. warm humid enbironment, parenteral fluids, prostoglandin, ovocentesis