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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

Softbill Books & DVDs

This is our selection of Softbill books and softbill DVDs about the keeping, care, training, and breeding of Softbills. If you don't see the Softbill book or video you're looking for, or if you have a question about one of our Softbill 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.

 

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

$24.95

Softbills: Care, Breeding and Conservation by Martin Vince - An exhaustive volume about softbills-small, flying birds that do not live on seeds, but on soft foods such as fruits, insects, and meats. The first section covers the basics from purchasing and housing to the particulars such as handling, banding, and nutrition. The second section focuses on the different species, their size, sexing, incubation, and breeding. Sure to become the definitive source for softbill keepers.

Softbills: Care, Breeding and Conservation

by Martin Vince

$24.95

Thrushes by Peter Clement - This is the first book in nearly one hundred years that is solely devoted to thrushes. It treats comprehensively the world's 162 species of true thrushes, providing a wealth of detailed information on identification and distribution of each species, with a reference to all recognized races. Emphasis is placed on vocalizations, plus habitat, range, movements, and breeding behavior. This will be, undoubtedly, the standard work on thrushes for many years to come.

Thrushes

by Peter Clement

$65.00

Toucans, Barbets and Honeyguides by Lester Short & Jennifer Horne - The exotic and vibrant natures of toucans, barbets, and honeyguides are brought to life in this stunning new volume from the Bird Families of the World series. Provides a general introduction to each toucan, barbet, and honeyguide family, followed by details on each of the 133 known species, including description, field characteristics, voice, habits, feeding and diet, displays, breeding behavior, life cycle, social systems, range map, status, habitat, and human and environmental threats. It is very reader-friendly, as accessible to bird and wildlife lovers as to professional ornithologists and conservationists.

Toucans, Barbets & Honeyguides

by Lester Short & Jennifer Horne

$269.00

 

 

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