anatomy

Hello everyone, I have a green cheek conure who is a little over a year old. I recently noticed he has two small bones either side of his cloaca (where he poops) they are fairly sharp to the touch but do not protrude the skin and it doesn't hurt him when I touch them. I have googled bird...

Hi all! New member here. I found a previous thread here regarding this question, but without photos I wasn’t sure if we were discussing the same thing. The photos show the “hole” in question. The photo at the end is me pointing to where it is. Jordan is a 23 year old male African grey who has...

I like big brains and I can not lie... Abstract Previous studies have demonstrated a correlation between longevity and brain size in a variety of taxa. Little research has been devoted to understanding this link in parrots; yet parrots are well-known for both their exceptionally long lives and...

Having been through a CT scan with Oscar (imaging his air sacs), I found this extremely interesting, but the insights that were shared are relevant to each of us. On the scale between theoretical and practical, this presentation leans to theoretical at this point because it's fairly new, but...