This guide will help you through the growing pains of adding to your bird family, including what to do when your birds have multiplied. The authors' combined 30-year experience will assist you to create a happy and healthy environment so that bird keeping will always be fun!
In this guide you can find topics on;
- Pet Care
- Why in Heavens Would Anyone Want a Bird for a Pet?
- Responsibilities! - What Responsibilities?
- Making a Natural Selection - Choosing Your Bird; Information Sources
- Bringing Your Bird Home
- Bird Keeping - A Family Affair - Children and other Pets
- All to do With the Cage - Types; Placement; Entertainment
- What's on the Menu? - Seed; Pellet; Storage; Recipes
- Attending to Your Bird's Personal Grooming - Nail and Wing Trimming
- Keeping Bird-fit - Cleaning; Illness
- Behaviour
- The Not-So-Secret Language of Birds - Rejection; Vocal and Body Language
- Low-Risk Bird Handling - Routine; Commands; Restraint; Preening
- Taming
- Training - Tricks; Tiolet Training
- Did Someone Say I Have a Behavioural Problem? - Screaming; Biting; Feather Picking
- Increasing Your Flock - Introductions; Quarantine
- Afterthoughts
- Aviculturist Responsibilities as a Whole
- Parts of a Typical Parrot