2.3 Health Flashcards
The best time to find a competent veterinarian who has experience with birds of prey is…
A. When the hawk is clearly sick
B. After your first hawk dies
C. Before you get your first hawk
D. Before your hawk gets sick
C. Before you get your first hawk
A good way to judge a raptor’s condition and health is …
A. ManitIn daily weight records.
B. Examine the mutes
C. Note alertness of the hawk
D. All of theses
D. All of theses
Your hawk becomes suddenly tame and well mannered, even at times you would expect her to act wild. She refuses to eat a good crop and reluctant to extract herself physically. Baiting is weak and causes heavy breathing and general exhaustion. She has extreme thirst and tends to bend forward as if due to a painful abdomen. She mostly suffers from…
A. Coccidiosis
B. Frounce(trichomonassis)
C. aspergillosis
D. Cramp
C. aspergillosis
The best weapon against aspergillosis is …
A. Ancroban(generic: flacytosine)
B. Amphotericn B (fogging or oral)
C. Clotrimazole
D. Prevention
D. Prevention
Aspergillosis is most frequently seen in…
A. Peregrine, Cooper’s and sharp-shinned hawks
B. Red-tails, goshawks and gyrfalcons
C. Harris hawks, and kestrels
D. “b” and “C” but not “A”
B. Red-tails, goshawks and gyrfalcons
Hawks which have some symptoms of aspergillosis may also have concurrent…
A. Coccidiosis
B. Trounce
C. Pneumonia
D. Tapeworm
C. Pneumonia
Chances for recovery from aspergillosis are excellent
T/F
False
Flecks of red appear in your hawk’s mutes. A few days later, the mutes turn watery and black, and the castings are slimy, dark brown an foul smelling. The hawk does not otherwise appear very ill, but may appear lethargic.
A. Coccidiosis
B. Flounce
C. Aspergillosis
D. Pneumonia
A. Coccidiosis
Coccidiosis is transmitted by…
A. By direct contact with an infected hawk
B. Through droppings of a sick hawk
C. Through contaminated soil in areas where poultry has been allowed to run
D. All the above
D. All the above
Since coccidiosis is well known in poultry, treatment should be entrusted to the advice of a veterinarian
T/F
True
Your hawk has a flat, cheesy, yellowish growth in it mouth and throat, especially under the tongue and on the roof of its mouth. The mutes are greenish to bright green, and the hawk has difficulty feeding. Your bird most likely has …
A tapeworm
B. Frounce
C. Aspergillosis
D. Coccidiosis
B. Frounce
A raptor disease caused by eating infected pigeons is …
A. Frounce
B. Bumblefoot
C. Cramp
D. Myasis
A. Frounce
Untreated, Frounce is usually fatal within____ days from the time symptoms manifests
A. One
B. Two
C. Ten
D. Thirty
C. Ten
The most practical weapon against Frounce is…
A. Enheptin
B. Thiamine
C. Flagyl
D. Prevention
D. Prevention
Your hawk develops a small corn on The bottom of the foot. It then progresses to a small, localized swelling. The swelling feels warm to the touch and appears red. The condition becomes extremely painful for the hawk, who begins to lie down frequently to take pressure doff the ball of the foot. The best diagnosis is …
A. Frounce
B. Myiasis
C. Bumblefoot
D. Apoplexy
C. Bumblefoot
Foot swelling in longwings is often likened to …
A. High humidity
B. Using perches of poor design
C. Direct wind in cold weather
D. A diet of lean beef and /or generally poor husbandry
E. “B” and “D”
E. “B” and “D”
Bumblefoot is caused by…
A. Any injury to the sole of the foot
B. Standing in irritating substances such as excrement or cleaners that have not been rinsed from a block or perch
C. inappropriately shaped or padded perches
D. All then above
D. All then above
The best way to prevent bumblefoot is to…
A. Keep a clean perch
B. Feed a whole animal diet such as adult quail or mice regularly and supplement with a vitamin product made for raptors.
C. Provide the hawk with a properly shaped and coved perch surface(such as long blade Astrtoturf) based on the type of raptor
D. All of the above
D. All of the above
Your hawk appears dull, the feathers are puffed out and the crop is still distended from the previous day’s feeding. The crop may have beeen vomited. The breath(or vomit) has putrid, sour odor. The hawk is increasingly thirsty, but has no appetite. Best diagnosis?
A. Sour crop
B. Myiasis
C. Frounce
D. Aspergillosis
A. Sour crop
Sour crop can be caused by …
A. Our hawk eating rotten meat
B. A parasitic infection such as capillariosis or coccidiosis and the associated inflammatory changes in the digestive tract.
C. Ingestion of poisonous substances such as petroleum products
D. Over feeding a weak hawk
E. All the above
E. All the above
The preferred treatment for an early, mild case(foul breath, failure to put them crop over, or slight dullness) of sour crop is…
A. Pedialyte
B. Ancoban
C. Zovirax ointment
D. Ampicillin
A. Pedialyte
During the initial handling of a freshly trapped sharp-shinned hawk, the hawk shows an uncontrolled jerking or twitching of the shoulders and wings. The best diagnosis is …
A. Aspergillosis
B. Frounce
C. Apoplexy
D. Coccidiosis
C. Apoplexy
The hawk most susceptible to apoplectic fits is …
A. Kestrel
B. Cooper’s hawk
C. Merlin
D. Goshawk
B. Cooper’s hawk
The preferred treatment for apoplectic seizures is …
A. Ancoban (generic:fucytosine)
B. Enpheptin
C. Flagyl (generic: metronidazole)
D. sugar water
D. sugar water
The preferred treatment for “stargazing syndrome” is …
A. Sunlight and vitamin D
B. Calcium/ phosphorus supplement
C. Sugar water
D. Vitamin B
A. Sunlight and vitamin D
Internal parasites…
A. Are common in captive raptors
B. Are easily treated
C. Can cause death or debilitation
D. All of the above
D. All of the above
Bird lice can weaken or kill a raptor.
T/F
False
Hippoboscidea are deadly to hawks
T/F
False
A raptor with a broken leg or wing should be put down(killed) in as humane a manner as possible since these bones cannot be set or cast with degree of success.
T/F
False
Poisoning due to ingestion of lead shot, I.e. shogun pellets, in their food…
A. Does not occur in raptors
B. Occurs only in owls which have no crop
C. Is cured easily by the use of antibiotics
D. Can kill any raptor fed prey items killed with lead shot
D. Can kill any raptor fed prey items killed with lead shot
The chief danger of transporting a hawk in a sock is overheating due to respiratory distress(gasping for breath)
T/F
True
Your female intermwed passage re-tail strikes and binds to a wild immature red-tail. After you separate them and the immature escapes, you see a small bleeding puncture wound on her tarsus that was by the Wild hawk. You should …
A. Ignore the wound as such thing are natural
B. Treat the wound immediately with local antibiotics like Neosporin.
C. Take her to the veterinarian
D. “B” followed by “C”
D. “B” followed by “C”
The most common cause of sudden death in Falconry hawks is …
A. Being shot by a game hunter
B. Electrocution
C. Leather attack by other, larger raptors
D. Impacting wire
B. Electrocution
West Nile disease is spread by mosquitoes
T/F
True
Which is the most dangerous to the health of a hunting kestrel?
A. Copper’s Hawks
B. Sour crop
C. Sloppy weight control
D. All the above
D. All the above
During trapping you inadvertently injure a male red-tailed hawk. You must…
A. Retain the hawk. Report it in the normal process and have the hawk treated immediately by a veterinarian. This hawk lives on your license.
B. Immediately give the hawk to veterinarian or permitted wildlife rehabilitator. Trap another hawk, taking greater care.
C. Release the injured raptor and trap another, taking greater care.
B. Immediately give the hawk to veterinarian or permitted wildlife rehabilitator. Trap another hawk, taking greater care.
