VMX will hold its annual meeting in person January 13-17, 2024. Dr Echols will be present on multiple avian medicine topics and is the immediate past chair for all exotic animal programs at VMX. Dr Echols will run the Combined Exotics Day on Wednesday Jan 17, 2024. The mini symposium will provide resources for students,…

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Dr Echols will attend Anatomy Connected 2023, March 25-27, 2023, Washington, DC. Dr Echols is a team member on numerous presentations (live and poster) and will be available to discuss new technology. For more information on the conference, please go to https://www.anatomy.org/AAA/AAA/Meetings-Events/Upcoming-Events.aspx.

Dr Echols will present several labs and various topics in avian medicine at ExoticsCon in Boston, MA August 20-24, 2023. Additionally, the Scarlet Preserved Animals (developed by Dr Echols) will be used in surgical training labs. These surgical models use no formaldehyde or phenol and replicate a real surgical experience without the use of live…

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World Bird Park

Welt Vogel Park Whenever I find myself in a new place, I make it a point to learn about the local animals. Of course I have a strong bend towards avian species and am always curious if there is a bird park nearby. On a 2013 trip to attend a conference in Germany, I came…

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Parrot Bytes- health topics related to pet parrots with Emily Strong of the Austin Parrot Society and Dr Scott Echols avian specialist veterinarian To request additional topics, please contact Emily Strong at frombeakstobarks@gmail.com     Introduction Emily: In my ongoing search for nutrition information, I’m seeing a lot of fairly reckless blanket statements about the…

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Update on Proventricular Dilatation Disease and Bornavirus Probably one of the most frightening and frustrating disease of parrot species is proventricular dilatation disease (or ‘PDD’). The disease goes by many names such as macaw wasting syndrome, myenteric ganglioneuritis, proventricular dilatation syndrome and more. The bottom line is that the disease is characterized by a specific inflammatory…

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3-19-13 Those who are following ‘Phoenix’ will be happy to know that the young eagle is doing well.  His caretakers are waiting for Phoenix to moult and get a new set of feathers.  Once Phoenix has a brand new set of feathers, to replace the burned ones, then flight training will begin.  From there, we…

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