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8th European A A V Conference Association of Avian Veterinarians 6th Scientific E C A M S Meeting European College of Avian Medicine and Surgery In collaboration with AFVAC Genac Association Française des Vétérinaires pour Animaux de Compagnie Groupe d’Etude des Nouveaux Animaux de Compagnie Arles, France, April 24-30, 2005 AAV AFVAC ISBN : 2-9508885-9-3 AFVAC - 40 rue de Berri - 75008 PARIS - FRANCE Phone : + 33 (0) 1 53 83 91 60 - Fax : + 33 (0) 1 53 83 91 69 - Email : [email protected] Association of Avian Veterinarians European committee (EAAV) www.eaav.org, www.aav.org European College of Avian Medicine and Surgery (ECAMS) www.ecams-online.org Association Française des Vétérinaires pour Animaux de Compagnie (AFVAC) www.afvac.com Groupe d’Etude des Nouveaux Animaux de Compagnie (GENAC) www.afvac.com 8th European A A V Conference 6th Scientific E C A M S Meeting Arles, April 24-30, 2005 In collaboration with AFVAC Genac EAAV CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN Jean-Marie Péricard, DVM, Certified in Avian Diseases, Certified in Epidemiology - Clinique vétérinaire, Sigean, France EAAV SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN Jaime Samour, MVZ, PhD, Dip ECAMS Fahad bin Sultan Falcon Center, Riyadh - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ECAMS SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN Nico J. Schoemaker, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ECAMS, Diplomate ABVP (Avian) Division of Avian and Exotic Animal Practice, Utrecht University, The Netherlands AAV EUROPEAN CONFERENCE 2005 COMMITTEES 26-30 APRIL 2005 ARLES PROVENCE FRANCE ORGANISING COMMITTEE Jean-Marie PERICARD (France), Chairman of the organizing committee Lorenzo CROSTA (Italy, Spain), EAAV President Peter SANDMEIER (Switzerland), Chairman, 2007 EAAV Conference Helga GERLACH (Germany), Treasurer Niel FORBES (United Kingdom), EAAV-ECAMS delegate SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Jaime SAMOUR (Saudi Arabia), Chairman of the scientific committee Jean-Pierre ANDRE (France) Tom BAILEY (Dubai, UAE) John CHITTY (United Kingdom) Gerry DORRESTEIN (Netherlands) Helga GERLACH (Germany) Nigel HARCOURT-BROWN (United Kingdom) Jean-Michel HATT (Switzerland) Rüdiger KORBEL (Germany) (and website coordinator) Suzan OROSZ (USA) Jean-Marie PERICARD (France) LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE Jean-Marie PERICARD Michel BELLANGEON Franck RIVAL (President of GENAC) Didier BOUSSARIE Emmanuel RISI Guillaume LELOCH Gérard GELLY Jean-François QUINTON Sylvie DUFOUR (Administration director AFVAC) Didier-Noël CARLOTTI (President of AFVAC) ECAMS ORGANISING COMMITTEE M. Krautwald-Junghanns (Germany) Nico J. Schoemaker (Netherlands) EDITORS EAAV Tom BAILEY John CHITTY Nigel HARCOURT-BROWN Jaime SAMOUR AUDITORS Peter COUTTEEL (Belgium) Nigel HARCOURT-BROWN (United Kingdom) SPONSORING We greatly appreciate the support by our exhibitors and sponsors : For this conference : BAYER HEALTHCARE VETOQUINOL & ELLMAN International Inc. HARRISON’S BIRD FOODS HEALTH AND HYGIENE JANSSEN SANTE ANIMALE KARL STORZ LYON ELECTRONIC CO. INC. MEDLAB MELET SCHLOESING Laboratoires OPTOMED – EVITEC OXBOW PET PRODUCTS SCANELIS SCIL ANIMAL CARE COMPANY VERSELE-LAGA For the pre-conference scientific tours : LPO (Ligue pour la protection des oiseaux) BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL RESERVE NATURELLE DE CRAU STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT For the practical laboratories : ALCYON BIRD-BITS CENTRAVET ELLMAN International Inc. ESCULAPE GENIA GER KARL STORZ MEDICAL SOLUTION NIKON SCIL ANIMAL CARE COMPANY VETOQUINOL 3M Welcome to Arles 2005 ! The French Companion Animal Veterinary Association (AFVAC) and its exotics study group (GENAC) are happy and proud to contribute to “Arles 2005”, a joint event with AAV and ECAMS. The GENAC is a very active group of our Association. They took up the challenge of such a meeting with enthusiasm and competence. Bravo! Many thanks also to AAV and its Board for their effective collaboration with our national group. Bird medicine and surgery has become a well recognized discipline. This is due to the incommensurable involvement of dedicated veterinarians. This has justified the creation and development of ECAMS, a species-oriented European College of Veterinary Specialists, third partner of the adventure. Thank you as well… When a field expands, congresses are the indispensable stages of its development. This one will be remembered, I am sure, because of the outstanding and sophisticated programme set up by the organizers. Plenary Sessions, Master Classes and Practical Laboratories are the corner-stones of a well-balanced scientific meeting like this one. I am also convinced that the remarkable environment of Provence will contribute to the success of this gathering of highly motivated colleagues. Please take at least a few hours to enjoy the place… I thank deeply all the organizing team and particularly Jean-Marie Péricard who spared no effort and time to make this event possible and, I am already convinced, successful. I wish you all a pleasant and fruitful meeting. Didier-Noël Carlotti, President of AFVAC A conference « mirror » of our activity It wasn’t the aim, but it is the result : This conference reflects the role played by the avian veterinarian within our profession and society. The main role of the avian veterinarian is to treat and prevent the diseases of privately owned pet birds, pet shop birds, breeding centre birds, wild birds as well as those birds found in zoological parks, rehabilitation centres and reintroduction pro- grams. By doing it, this veterinarian participates in the protection of the sanitary state of the poultry industry, and in the prevention and epidemiological survey of the zoonosis. But the veterinarian has also, in these different situations, a role of zootech- nician, nutritionist and behaviourist. As a matter of fact, all these aspects are dealt with during this conference ! The participation of more than 160 colleagues from 21 countries in the 2 pre conference scientific tours, 71 oral presentations, 2 round table discus- sions, 6 master classes, 26 posters and 9 practical labs, displays, beyond our diversity, the similarity of our care to improve a scientific field in rapid progression. I wish everybody to make use of this conference, but also to enjoy Provence and the exceptional birds living in these top places of biodiversity in Europe that are the Camargue, the Crau and the Alpilles. Jean-Marie Péricard, Chairman of the organising committee Table of Contents Scientific meeting of the European College of Avian Medicine and Surgery S.I.C.O. Santos & J.T. Lumeij. “Concealed” avian sexual dichromatism and multiple angle reflectance spectrometry ......................................... 3 J.-M. Hatt & J.T. Lumeij. Evidence-based avian medicine – How to ask questions and find answers ............................................................. 5 R. Korbel & K. Sturm. Review on lightsources for birdhousing under artificial light circumstances .................................................................. 7 U. Benheim & I. Davidson. Molecular Identification and Prevalence of Psittacine Circovirus in Israel ............................................................ 9 M. Hochleitner et al. Fungal cultures in feather probes of psittacine birds ...................................................................................................... 11 S.E. Orosz. The senses of birds : their unique qualities ...................... 13 J. van Engelen, I. Akkerdaas & N.J. Schoemaker. A study into the analgesic efficacy of Buprenorphine and Butorphanol in pigeons (Columba livia domestica) .................................................................... 19 E.S. Story, D. Carboni & T.N. Tully. Establishing normal tear production values in hispaniolan Amazon parrots (Amazona ventralis) .................... 21 J. Samour. Haemopathological responses in falcons to Newcastle disease ................................................................................................. 23 M.-E. Krautwald, G. Stelzer & V. Schmidt. Food - intoxication in nestling psittacines ............................................................................... 25 I. Westerhof, N.J. Schoemaker & P.Y. Barthez. Spiral Computed Tomography in Respiratory diseased Birds ....................................... 27 T.A. Bailey & O. Combreau. Domestication and Disease : Challenges for Houbara Bustard Captive Breeding Projects in the Middle East ...... 29 B.W. Ritchie et al. Epizootiology of Proventricular Dilatation Disease in Breeding Cockatiels .......................................................................... 31 Main European Association of Avian Veterinarians Conference J. Chitty. Veterinary aspects of the great bustard (Otis tarda) Reintroduction project in the UK. ......................................................... 37 M. Barrows, M. Hartley, J.M. Pittman. Diseases and management of captive crested screamers (Chauna torquata) ....................................... 41 G. Cousquer. Clinical approach to the downer swan ........................... 47 U. Höfle, J.M. Blanco, R. Valboa, D. Villanua, C. Gortazar. Trichomonas gallinae in free-living birds of prey, passerines birds and woodpigeons (Columba palumbus) ......................................................................... 56 E. Jourdain, M. Gauthier-Clerc, D. Bicout, Y. Kayser, P. Sabatier. A study of free-ranging wild birds to better understand their role in the circulation of west nile virus in Camargue, Southern France .................. 60 O. Lambert, H. Pouliquen, B. Philippe, N. de la Cotte, M. L’Hostis. Wild bird exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides in Loire-atlantique (France), a 2 year study on waterbirds and raptors