Raptor and psittacine bird gynecological screening using a mininvasive diagnostic tecnique.

Although the availability of proven bio-molecular tests for sex determination, additional information provided by a direct view of the reproductive system performed with an endoscope are unique. In this work were studied about 2500 subjects of several species of birds (raptors and parrots), in order to identify functional status of reproductive system and, eventually, possible semen donors. During the tests it was also possible to diagnose several diseases, sometimes in a subclinical form, that allowed to identify better clinical therapy or discard some birds from reproductive chain, cutting down the economic impact, in private collections.