Soft tissue surgery.

performed in birds have increased substantially over the last decade because of the widespread use of isoflurane anesthesia, the introduction of microsurgical techniques to the avian practice, improvement in microsurgical instrumentation, improvements in bipolar radiosurgical instrumentation and the growing expertise of avian surgeons. Board certified surgeons are becoming attracted to the field for the purpose of developing and refining avian procedures. Procedures that were once considered impossible are now performed on a routine basis.