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The Essential Cockatoo by Laurie Baker & Stuart Borden - This fun, informative, and practical book will help you select, train, and nurture your Cockatoo. In full-color throughout, chapters include Choosing, Bringing Home, Understanding Your Companion, Nurturing, Training, and Health Care. Author Laurie Baker, a companion bird breeder and behaviorist, is a life member of the American Association of Aviculture and owner of Feathered Follies Bird Shop in California. She spares no punches about the hard work and diligence required in some areas of keeping these magnificent species.

The Essential Cockatoo

by Laurie Baker & Stuart Borden

Good Bird! A Guide to Solving Behavioral Problems in Companion Parrots! by Barbara Heidenreich - A professional in animal behavior has created an easy-to-read step-by-step guide that uses positive reinforcement for teaching your parrot acceptable behavior. This book will help you deal with screaming, biting, feather-picking, bonding, and other difficult parrot behaviors. Chapters include Preparing the Companion Parrot Owner, Screaming, Biting, Bonding to One Person, Cage Bound Bird, and Feather Picking.

Good Bird! A Guide to Solving Behavioral Problems in Companion Parrots!

by Barbara Heidenreich

The Complete Pet Bird Owner's Handbook (Revised Edition) by Dr. Gary A. Gallerstein - Covers all aspects of pet bird ownership, including selection, nutrition, behavior, home physicals, emergency medical care, preventative medicine, and much more. Presented in seventeen chapters, this book provides guidance on getting started, achieving optimum health, and understanding what your bird needs from you for a happy, healthy life. Includes an index of health and illness signs, general index, bibliography of additional resources, and superb photos and illustrations to support the detailed text. You will consider this book to be the most essential reference in your avian library, a constant source of reliable advice, assistance, and assurance for your bird's well-being.

The Complete Pet Bird Owner's Handbook (Revised Edition)

by Dr. Gary A. Gallerstein

 
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Amazon Parrots: A Complete Pet Owner's Manual by Gayle Soucek - These medium-size parrots are known for their playful companionship and their talking ability. Here is everything a new pet owner needs to know about caring for Amazon parrots and keeping them as pets, including purchasing, feeding, health care, training, grooming, and all other aspects of responsible pet ownership.

Amazon Parrots: A Complete Pet Owner's Manual NEW

by Gayle Soucek

Price: $8.95
The Basics of Parrot Training: A Live Workshop by Barbara Heidenreich - Everything you wanted to know to help you get started training your parrot is captured in this video of one of Barbara Heidenreich's world-renowned Parrot Training Workshops. Barbara is famous for her entertaining and enthusiastic presentation style. But her true gift is her kind and gentle approach to animal training. You will learn how to train your parrot, read his/her body language, solve behavior problems, and watch Barbara demonstrate these techniques with parrots she is meeting for the first time. Most of all you will learn how to have a great relationship with your bird based on trust. Discover how these training methods can help you have a fun, well-behaved, and interactive companion parrot.

The Basics of Parrot Training: A Live Workshop DVD NEW

by Barbara Heidenreich

Price: $39.95
The Birdkeepers' Guides: Pionus Parrots by Tammy Gagne - Pionus parrots are large in size but quiet in demeanor, making them an ideal pet parrot for apartment dwellers or those living within close proximity of their neighbors. This title contains all newly authored text by an expert on bird care and provides concise yet complete coverage of subjects like training, feeding, housing, health care, and grooming.

The Birdkeepers' Guides: Pionus Parrots NEW

by Tammy Gagne

Price: $12.95
The Birdkeepers' Guides: Lories and Lorikeets by Rebecca K. O'Connor - Written by an expert on bird care, this book provides the most up-to-date information on housing, feeding, and grooming these lively birds. Also known as honeyeaters, these colorful and amusing birds are known to be very playful and form strong bonds with their owners. This book pays special attention to the unique nutritional needs of the lory and includes an in-depth chapter devoted to their behavior and training. Using vibrant photos, it discusses the 15 different species of these popular members of the parrot family, including all of those in the pet trade and even some rare species.

The Birdkeepers' Guides: Lories and Lorikeets NEW

by Rebecca K. O'Connor

Price: $12.95
Caiques: Their Care, Breeding and Some Natural History by Dr. John C. McMichael - Caiques are given in-depth coverage in this informative book for aviculturalists, pet owners, and enthusiasts. Divided into three parts, the first deals with pet care, the second with breeding, and the third with esoteric and scientific topics. Topics include deciding if you are a 'parrot person'; parrot-proofing your home; cage selection, placement, lighting, and cleaning; diet; bathing and grooming; keeping pairs as pets; caiques and other pets (including other birds); life cycle and maturation; behavior and training; health; travel; recapturing an escaped bird; breeding, incubation, and hand-feeding; and natural history, taxonomy, ecology, conservation, mutations, and hybrids.

Caiques NEW

by Dr. John C. McMichael

Price: $49.95
Canaries: A Complete Pet Owner's Manual by Dr. Thomas Haupt - Canaries are wonderful singing birds and relatively easy to care for. Here is expert information and advice to help you take good care of your Canary, including origins, physical traits, life cycles, care, feeding, housing, health care, activities, body language, and vocal language.

Canaries: A Complete Pet Owner's Manual NEW

by Dr. Thomas Haupt

Price: $8.95
The Cockatiel Handbook by Mary Gorman - These attractive members of the parrot family come in a variety of colors. This handbook offers detailed information on purchasing the right bird, building a bond, caging, nutrition, health care, and much more.

The Cockatiel HandbookNEW

by Mary Gorman

Price: $12.95
Cockatoos: A Complete Pet Owner's Manual by Werner Lantermann, Susanne Lantermann & Julie Mancini - This handsomely illustrated book presents basic information about Cockatoos for new or soon-to-be owners. Topics covered include purchase, caging, equipment, general care and maintenance, health care, and much more.

Cockatoos: A Complete Pet Owner's Manual NEW

by Werner Lantermann, Susanne Lantermann & Julie Mancini

Price: $8.95
Expert Companion Bird Care Series (Volume 1) by Dr. M. Scott Echols & Dr. Brian L. Speer

Expert Companion Bird Care Series (Volume 1) DVD NEW

by Dr. M. Scott Echols & Dr. Brian L. Speer

Price: $24.95
Expert Companion Bird Care Series (Volume 2) by Dr. M. Scott Echols & Dr. Brian L. Speer - This comprehensive DVD series is the first of its kind to be created by recognized avian veterinarians, teachers, aviculturists, enthusiasts, and pet store owners. Drs. Scott Echols (author of Captive Foraging) and Brian Speer (author of Birds for Dummies and The Large Macaws) work with world-renowned avian educators to bring you the best information on bird care. Volume 2 is taught by avian specialists and covers: The History of Bird Keeping; Selecting a Bird That Fits Your Lifestyle; and Understanding Aviculture.

Expert Companion Bird Care Series (Volume 2) DVD NEW

by Dr. M. Scott Echols & Dr. Brian L. Speer

Price: $24.95
The Finch: A Breeder's Companion by Russell Kingston - Russell Kingston's latest masterpeice is the most comprehensive reference ever published on seedeaters. Covering 70 species from around the world in 33 chapters. Each chapter includes information by family on distribution and habitat in the wild, housing, sexing, management, diet, showing, behavior, health issues, availability, mutations, and hybrids. Family species include African Firefinches, the family Amadina and Amandava, Australian Firetails, Australian Grassfinches, Canary Finches, Cardinals, African Waxbills, Gouldian Finches, Grassquits, Java Finches, The Lonchura Family, The Neochmia Family, Some Old World Finches, The Parrotfinches, The Pytilia Family, The Crested Finches, The Saffron Finches, The Siskins, The Passer Family - Sparrows, The Twinspots, The Family Uraeginthus, The Weaver, Widowbirds, and Fodys, African Whydahls and Indigobirds, The Family Taeniopygia Zebras and Double-bars. Additional detailed chapters include: Breeding finches, Conservation, Avian Health, Housing, Husbandry, Nutrition, and starting in finches. This must-have reference for finch breeders ships worldwide.

The Finch: A Breeder's Companion NEW

by Russell Kingston

Price: $165.00
Guide to Companion Parrot Behavior (Second Edition) by Mattie Sue Athan - This revised and updated book offers a wealth of advice on such topics as choosing between a young parrot and an older bird, selecting and training a talking parrot, modifying some of a companion bird's behavior traits and reinforcing positive behavior changes, keeping the bird groomed and away from household safety hazards, coping with screaming or feather chewing, and virtually all other aspects of care. The author concludes by recounting several amusing anecdotes about companion parrots and their various owners.

Guide to Companion Parrot Behavior (Second Edition) NEW

by Mattie Sue Athan

Price: $15.00
Handbook of the Birds of the World (Volume 15): Weavers to New World Warblers by Josep del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott & David Christie (Editors) - The Handbook of the Birds of the World series is the first work ever to illustrate and deal in detail with all the species of birds in the world. Volume 15 covers Family Ploceidae (Weavers), Family Viduidae (Whydahs and Indigobirds), Family Estrildidae (Waxbills), Family Vireonidae (Vireos), Family Fringillidae (Finches), Family Drepanididae (Hawaiian Honeycreepers), Family Peucedramidae (Olive Warbler), Family Parulidae (New World Warblers). Foreword on conservation of the world's birds by Stuart Butchart, Nigel Collar, Alison Stattersfield, and Leon Bennun.

Handbook of the Birds of the World (Volume 15): Weavers to New World Warblers NEW

by Josep del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott & David Christie (Editors)

Price: $299.00
Parrots of the World by Joseph M. Forshaw - From the macaws of South America to the cockatoos of Australia, parrots are among the most beautiful and exotic birds in the world — and also among the most endangered. This stunningly illustrated, easy-to-use field guide covers all 356 species and well-differentiated subspecies of parrots, and is the only guide organized by geographical distribution — Australasian, Afro-Asian, and neotropical. It features 146 superb color plates depicting every kind of parrot, as well as detailed, facing-page species accounts that describe key identification features, distribution, subspeciation, habitat, and status. Color distribution maps show ranges of all subspecies, and field identification is further aided by relevant upperside and underside flight images. This premier field guide also shows where to observe each species in the wild, helping make this the most comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the parrots of the world.

Parrots of the World NEW

by Joseph M. Forshaw

Price: $29.95
Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens (Third Edition) by Gail Damerow - This thoroughly revised edition of the best-selling classic has all the information you need to successfully keep chickens, from choosing breeds and hatching chicks to building coops and keeping birds healthy and safe from predators. This update contains a new chapter on training chickens and understanding their intelligence, expanded coverage of hobby farming, new information on avian influenza and fowl first aid, and much more.

Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens (Third Edition)NEW

by Gail Damerow

Price: $19.95
Train Your Parrot to Talk by Barbara Heidenreich - In this DVD, professional animal trainer Barbara Heidenreich teaches you how to train a parrot to talk. She addresses common myths about talking parrots, which birds make ideal candidates for talking, the most effective ways to expose your parrot to sounds you want repeated, proven methods for encouraging your parrot to vocalize, and most importantly, how to train your parrot to talk on cue. Also included is an appearance by Einstein, the Talking Texan Parrot, plus an interview with her human companions. A bonus CD ROM includes recordings of a variety of species of parrots vocalizing to inspire your bird to talk.

Train Your Parrot to Talk DVD NEW

by Barbara Heidenreich

Price: $21.95

 

 

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