Broken Blood Feathers - How to attend to a broken blood feather in cockatiels and provides a link on how to find an avian vet.

Clinical Approach to Feather Picking Disorders in Pet Birds - Describes areas of feather picking if it is behavioral or medical in nature and how this problem is handled.

Common Skin and Feather Disorders in Pet Birds Part I - Many diseases and disorders can affect your birds skin and feathers including mites baldness cysts behavioral feather picking polyfollicles and brown hypertrophy.

Feather Picking and Self-Mutilation in Companion Birds - Defines this destructive behavior causes contributing factors and recommendations.

Feather Plucking In Parrots - Discusses some common causes such as malnutrition psychological stress parasites and internal organ disease in relation to this behavioral problem in birds.

How to Manage Feather-Picking in Caged Birds - Provides details on the differences between normal preening lack of preening and destructive feather picking.

Knemidokiptic Mange in Pet Birds: Scaly Face and Scaly Leg Disease - Describes the lesions of the skin produces by mites and the treatment options for it.

Research on Feather Diseases - Part I - Provides results on budgerigars. Discusses pulpitis mites cysts stress marks and feather dusters. Part II describes tumors multifeathers distortions splits follicles vitamin deficiency and feather loss.