Broken Blood Feathers - How to attend to a broken blood feather in cockatiels and provides a link on how to find an avian vet.
Meta Description: [ Cockatiels, Cockatiel, What is a Blood Feather, Broken Blood Feathers, How to Pull a Broken Blood Feather ]

404 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.
Meta Description: [ Many diseases and disorders can affect your birds skin and feathers, including mites, baldness, cysts and more. ]

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.
Meta Description: [ Explains the Causes and Treatment of Feather Plucking In Pet 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.
Meta Description: [ Report on research which took place from 1993 to 1995 on feather diseases in budgerigars. ]