Health and Disease
Third edition
edited by John E. Cooper
Birds of Prey is a classic reference for veterinary surgeons, avian biologists, falconers, and conservationists.
Features of Birds of Prey include:
- Contributions by leading international experts such as Paolo Zucca, Oliver Krone, David Peakall, and Ian Newton
- Additional chapters on fractures, pediatrics and poisons
- New sections on health monitoring, captive breeding, and host-parasite relations
- Numerous appendices, including clinical, post-mortem, and egg/embryo examination forms; keys to diagnoses; medicines; field work, equipment, and techniques; legal issues
- An eight page color plate section
Contents
- Introduction - the history of raptor medicine
- Nomenclature
- anatomy
- Methods of investigation and treatment
- Non-infectious diseases
- Infectious diseases, excluding macroparasites
- Parasitic diseases
- Foot conditions
- Neurological disorders
- Nutritional diseases, including poisoning, in captive birds
- Poisoning in wild (free living) raptors
- Anesthesia and surgery
- Miscellaneous and emerging diseases
- Diseases in wild (free living) bird populations
- Discussion and conclusions
Appendices
- List of species of raptor
- Clinical examination forms, including questionnaire
- Post-mortem and egg/embryo protocol and examination form
- Cytology and blood smear report forms
- Key to major clinical diagnoses
- Key to major (gross) post-mortem diagnoses including findings in eggs
- The principles of health monitoring, with particular reference to the movement of raptors
- Minimally invasive health monitoring
- Medicines and other agents used in treatment, including emergency anesthesia kit and avian resuscitation protocol
- Field work, field kits and portable equipment, and field post-mortem techniques
- Legislation and codes of practice relevant to working with raptors
Index
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