Good-day, Dominic Barfield here, and this is the RVC Clinical Podcast. Thank you for listening and thank you for subscribing on your smartphone or generic freebase device.

Really grateful for you taking the time to download and listen to this podcast. And we don't ask much for a return, but you're incredibly grateful if email us instead. Well, actually, just don't leave us a review. No, but please, a five-star review would be fantastic. So, joining myself

in the studio today, we have Vicki Bordry, who's one of our exotics electors here at the

RVC. And I managed to track it down because normally works in Camden, but it's up here to talk to our final years for their elective. So I'd ask her to pop into the studio and maybe talk on this podcast. So thank you very much, Vicky,

for having your arm twisted to come in to talk to us today. No problem. And I thought what we

discussed is as we said is about about parrots and maybe the common presentation findings that we find of the parrots that presented

to us in general practice.

What are the common things that they are presented for as well?

So I know it's quite a nebulous topic and probably I shouldn't necessarily refer to parrots

in one term because I know they're all individual species, as I've been told before.

But could I ask, what in the UK, what are the common breeds of parrots that people actually

keep, or species of parrots, sorry, that people keep?

I would say most commonly we see budgerie gars and cockatiels.

We see grey parrots and amazons.

We see a fair number of cockatoos, although they tend to be a little bit higher maintenance,

so they're perhaps less commonly kept. And then more unusual species, we might see eclectus parrots,

we might see other species of parakeet,akerikis are quite popular so a whole variety

ranging from the little buddry gars right up to the bigger cockatoos and I suppose

the thing is he said parakeet as well we have a feral population or or of parakeets as well?

So some of them like wildlife casualties of people bring in that think their pets when actually

their wildlife?

A bit of a grey area.

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