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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

 

Finch Books & DVDs

This is our selection of Finch books and Finch DVDs about the keeping, care, training, and breeding of Finches. If you don't see the Finch book or video you're looking for, or if you have a question about one of our Finch titles, please contact us. For information on shipping methods and rates, payment options, information privacy, and shopping cart security, please visit our How to Order page.

 

Animal Planet Pet Care Library: Finches by Rebecca K. O'Connor - Written by an expert on bird care, this book offers useful advice on breeding, showing, and keeping these popular birds. It discusses both indoor and outdoor housing and provides an introduction to building an aviary. T.F.H. has teamed up with Animal Planet to present an exciting new series of family-friendly, comprehensive guides to superior pet care. Each book features newly written text from animal experts on a variety of topics, including feeding, housing, grooming, training, health care, and fun activities. Useful tip boxes in each chapter show every member of the household how to make the most out of owning a pet.

Animal Planet Pet Care Library: Finches

by Rebecca K. O'Connor

Price: $11.95

The Complete Book of Finches and Softbills by David Alderton - Whether just starting out with one Zebra Finch of beginning to breed Greater Indian Hill Mynahs, readers will find this book an essential tool for success. Practical information on the different species of finches and softbills, including identifying birds, specific housing and nutritional requirements, improving breeding results, building an aviary or birdroom, and treating illness.

The Complete Book of Finches and Softbills

by David Alderton

Price: $29.95

The Finch Handbook by Christa Koepff & April Romagnano - Finches are relatively easy for hobbyists to keep in both indoor cages and outdoor aviaries. This book offers advice on housing, health care, feeding, and general care.

The Finch Handbook

by Christa Koepff & April Romagnano

Price: $12.95

Gouldian Finches: A Complete Pet Owner's Manual by Gayle Soucek - The beautiful, multicolored Gouldian Finch is native to Australia. When kept as pets, they thrive on seeds and fresh fruit. Here's reliable information on cage maintenance and general care of this popular bird, including purchasing, feeding, health care, training, grooming, and more. Heavily illustrated with high-quality photos and anatomically accurate line drawings.

Gouldian Finches: A Complete Pet Owner's Manual

by Gayle Soucek

Price: $8.95

A Guide to Gouldian Finches and Their Mutations (Revised Edition) by Milton Lewis, Dr. Rob Marshall, Dr. Terry Martin & Ron Tristram - This complete revision features concise information on Gouldian Finches in the wild and in captivity, including housing, nutrition, breeding, mutations, color breeding, health, and disease. Supported by over 330 images, including an extensive selection of mutations.

A Guide to Gouldian Finches and Their Mutations (Revised Edition)

by Milton Lewis, Dr. Rob Marshall, Dr. Terry Martin & Ron Tristram

Price: $47.95

A Guide to Australian Grassfinches: Their Management, Care & Breeding by Russell Kingston - Each of the 18 Australian <i>Estrildidae</i> species is identified and discussed in this new book from Australian Birdkeeper, with details on management, nutrition, quarantine, housing, compatibility, sexing, breeding, fledging, weaning, and color mutations.

A Guide to Australian Grassfinches: Their Management, Care & Breeding

by Russell Kingston

Price: $25.95

A Guide to Zebra Finches: Their Colour Mutations, Management & Breeding by Milton Lewis, John Lewis & Joan Lewis - Written by Australian Zebra finch breeders Milton, John, and Joan Lewis, this Australian publication covers these internationally popular endemic birds. Featuring 96 pages of easy-to-read, highly informative text covering such topics as history and ecology, housing, feeding, health, choosing stock, exhibiting and all currently recognized color varieties, this title is a must for any Zebra Finch enthusiast.

A Guide to Zebra Finches: Their Colour Mutations, Management & Breeding

by Milton Lewis, John Lewis & Joan Lewis

Price: $25.95

Hancock House Encyclopedia of Estrildid Finches by Dr. Matthew M. Vriends & Tanya Heming-Vriends - Estrildid finches are the author's favorite group of birds, and this massive tome is his major life's work. This esssential guide offers detailed descriptions of the colorful and popular Estrildid finches from the tropics and subtropics: Waxbills, Mannikins, Munias, Grass Finches, and Parrot Finches. Over 400 color photos highlight the species account of their biology, distribution, and full avicultural care. This book compiles the essential guidance you need to achieve success in finch culture, and holds the answers to both scientific and practical questions about this family of finches.

Hancock House Encyclopedia of Estrildid Finches

by Dr. Matthew M. Vriends & Tanya Heming-Vriends

Price: $60.00

Munias and Mannikins by Robin Restall - Munias and mannikins are one genus in a colorful family of seed-eating songbirds that live in the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, Australasia, Africa, and various Pacific islands. This book is the first comprehensive account of the forty-one species of this group of Old World seedeaters. Robin Restall provides a natural history of each species, including field characteristics, status, habitat, morphology, habits and behavior, food and feeding, movements, calls and song, courtship and display, breeding, distribution, a detailed species description, hybrids, and conservation status. Of special significance are Restall's line drawings and paintings: included in the book are 16 color plates of perched birds in field guide style depicting every known plumage; 64 colored measured drawings of individual birds that show plumage variation; and numerous line drawings, most of which show behavior never before illustrated. The book also contains distribution maps and sonograms.

Munias and Mannikins

by Robin Restall

Price: $69.00

Zebra Finches: A Complete Pet Owner's Manual by Hans-Jurgen Martin - This handsomely illustrated book presents basic information about Zebra Finches for new or soon-to-be owners. Topics covered include purchase, caging, equipment, general care and maintenance, health care, and much more.

Zebra Finches: A Complete Pet Owner's Manual

by Hans-Jurgen Martin

Price: $8.95

 

 

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