Veterinary Services

Diagnoses recorded in wild birds included trauma in two woodpigeons (Columba palumbus), trichomoniasis in a feral pigeon and metabolic bone disease in a young collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto).

More unusual was the recovery of heavy growths of Chryseomonas (Pseudomonas) luteola from the liver and intestine of a blue tit (Parus caeruleus). This bird was found with yellow debris around its beak at a bird feeding station. Also unresolved was the cause of thickening and ulceration of the crop of a chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) – no significant bacteria, fungi or yeasts were isolated from the crop, but histopathological changes were indicative of protozoal infection.