Clinical and pathological findings in two Mauritian pink pigeons (Columba mayeri)

Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent, Canterbury.

Two Mauritian pink pigeons (Columba mayeri) from a captive breeding programme, with locomotor disorders were examined clinically and post mortem. One bird was unable to fly owing to a permanent luxation of the left elbow. The other bird had an inclined foot caused by a medial curvature and outward rotation of the tarsometatarsal bone, a deformity similar to the previously recorded 'inclined feet' in birds bred in Mauritius.