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All About Your Parrot
Paperback by Annette De Saulies.
All About YOur Parrot tells you everything you
need to know about: Parrots as pets, Setting up home, Feeding,
Caring for your parrot, Understanding parrot behaviour, Health
problems. Annette De Saulles is an expert on parrot care.
£1.95
A Complete Pet Owner's Manual: Parrots
Paperback from Barron's.
Information and advice to help you take good care
of your Parrot. Typical Parrots: varieties, life cycles,
behaviour patterns and much more.
Expert advice: housing, feeding, health care, grooming, and
coping with behaviour problems. Appreciating your parrot:
understanding its vocal and
body language, enjoying parrot ownership and much more.
Advice on everyday care. Informative and attractive checklists and sidebars. Filled with
attractive full-colour photos.
£6.99
ParrotLopaedia
A Complete Guide to Parrot Care
Paperback by Annette De Saulles and Neil Forbes.
The more you know about your parrot the better
you will understand his specific needs and requirements.In
Parrotlopaedia you will find invaluable guidance on every aspect
of parrot care and health, broken into the following
easy-to-ready sections:
1. Principles of parrot keeping, with
information on housing, feeding, training and breeding.
2. Health care, detailing anatomy and
physiology, with A-Z listing of parrot diseases.
Readers will learn:
How to care for parrots living in the house.
How to care for aviary birds.
How a parrot's body works.
How to recognise parrot diseases.
How to breed and exhibit parrots.
Parrotlopaedia will prove an essential reference
for all those who really are interested in providing the very
best for their parrots.
£9.99
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A Complete Pet Owner's Manual: The Second
Hand Parrot
Paperback from Barron's.
Practical information and advice for anyone
adopting or placing a parrot in its second home. An
overview of second-hand parrots: their availability, selection,
potential behaviour patterns and more.
Humane practical information: housing, feeding, health care, grooming,
and socialization. Understanding your second-hand parrot:
acclimating, accommodating, modifying unwanted behaviours and
more. Step-by-step directions for everyday care. Informative,
easy-to-understand checklists and sidebars. Filled with
attractive full-colour photos.
£6.99
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The Healthy Bird Cookbook
Hardback by Robin Deutsch.
The Healthy Bird Cookbook: A Lifesaving
Nutritional Guide and Recipe Collection is the perfect solution
to all of your bird's nutritional needs. It provides 150
creative, healthy and ways-to-make recipes that are appropriate
for almost all species of pet birds. The book also offers
a thorough, extensive section on avian nutrition that clearly
explains the roles of pellets and seeds, the food groups,
vitamins, minerals and amino acids in your bird's diet.
You can take comfort in the quality and nutritional value of
these original recipes - the author is avian expert who spent
ten years consulting with veterinarians and doing hands-on
research to compose them.
The Health Bird Cookbook features:
150 recipes that are easy to make and healthy
Illustrations of many of the delicious dishes
included
a thorough nutritional guide, including sections
on special diets, specific nutritional needs and foods to aviod
Helpful hints, cooking tips and safety
suggestions throughout
Many recipes that are great for people too!
£12.95
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The Click That Does The Trick
Paperback by Robin Deutsch
If you think your parrot can't shoot a basket or
bowl a strike, think again! Using the information in The
Click That Does The Trick, you'll be able to train your bird to
perform over 30 entertaining tricks, including shooting a
basket, bowling, roller-skating, waving and more.
Training your bird is not only entertaining, but
it actually helps build a better relationship between the two of
you. You';; spend more time together and come to know and
trust each other. And, both you and your bird will have
fun. Training your bird reduces his level of boredom and
gets him mentally and physically active.
Author Robin Deutsch, a professional bird
trainer, guides you through all the steps to train each trick.
Her introductory chapters on bird behaviour and basic training
concepts lay the groundwork for training your bird to perform
complex tricks.
The Click That Does The Trick features:
a complete overview of training and bird
behaviour
instructions on using the clicker to make
training faster and easier
step-by-step directions on training more than 30
fun tricks
simple directions on how to build the props used
to perform the tricks.
£10.95
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Teaching A Parrot To Talk
Hardback by Elaine Radford
Birds are intelligent creatures, so why shouldn't
we expect them to talk? Many times parrot owners are
surprised at the degree of ability their bird possesses.
This book will provide the reader with the information needed to
select the right parrot and train a parrot to talk. Also
included is a special section on caring for and maintaining a
healthy chatterbox, as well as a useful guide to choosing the
best species for every situation.
£8.95
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Hand-Feeding and Raising Baby Birds
Paperback by Matthew M Vriends, Ph.D.
Information for amateur bird owners and
professional breeders.......
Proper care of eggs
Maintaining a bird nursery
Keeping the nursery warm and sanitary
Fighting infections and other health problems
Matching feed formulas to the needs of different
birds
Baby birds of all species are extremely delicate
creatures, and caring for the eggs and raising hatchlings to
maturity can be a real challenge. A widely recognized
expert on bird care tells you everything you need to know about
successfully incubating eggs and maintaining a sanitary
environment where young birds will thrive. Different feed
formulas are given for different species, including parrots,
doves, finches, soft-billed birds, pheasants, and others.
You'll learn how to repair damaged eggs and how to correct
problems often suffered by baby birds, from dehydration and
discoloured feathers to viral, bacterial, and fungal infections.
Filled with full-coloured photos and many helpful drawings.
£7.99
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The Parrot Breeder's Answer Book
Paperback by Gayle A Soucek
If you think you'd like to breed parrots but have
no prior experience, this book is must reading. Author
Gayle Soucek is a parrot expert who brings her extensive
breeding experience to you in these pages. She covers all
basics in layman's terminology, and points out the rewards and
the pitfalls connected with parrot breeding. Before you
begin, you'll need to know who should - and who should not -
breed parrots. You'll also need to know the details
involved in obtaining your parrot flock, providing housing and
supplies to maintain your parrot flock, monitoring flock health,
setting up incubation facilities, rearing chicks, working with
an avian veterinarian, and selling chicks. The Parrot
Breeder's Answer Book gives you all the vital facts you need to
get started in a challenging and rewarding venture.
More than 60 full-colour photos plus informative
line art.
£9.99
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Guide To A Well-Behaved Parrot
Paperback by Mattie Sue Athan (Second Edition)
This expanded new edition of widely respect
parrot-care handbook helps you understand parrot psychology as
the first step in dealing with the most common parrot behaviour
problems - screaming, biting, and feather chewing. Author
Mattie Sue Athan also points out the need for periodic
reinforcement of desirable behaviour patterns, and explains
behaviour reinforcement methods. In addition, you'll find
a wealth of information on parrot health care, proper nutrition,
grooming, and much more.
Full-colour photos and instructive line
illustrations.
£7.99
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Pet Owner's Guide To Parrot Training and
Behaviour
Hardback by Annette De Saulles
The cheeky, intelligent parrot makes a fantastic
pet, but it is essential to provide the correct care, training
and socialisation. This superbly illustrated guide
outlines a comprehensive training programme to ensure your get
the very best from our feathered friend.
Learn about: Parrot personalities: Socialisation:
Training: Solving problems: Teaching tricks.
Author Annette De Saulles, an expert on all
aspects of avian care, has made a special study of parrot
behaviour.
£5.99
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The Parrot Problem Solver
Hardback by Barbara Heidenreich
The Parrot Problem Solver will help you turn your
pugilistic parrot into a feathered friend. It provides the
tools and advice you need to prevent and solve aggression
problems in your pet bird. With the easy to follow
training techniques, you can say goodbye to biting, screaming,
lunging and other not-so-friendly behaviours and build a warmer
and more loving relationship with your companion parrot.
£12.99
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Your Outta Control Bird
Paperback by Nikki Moustaki
Biting, screaming, messy, ill-tempered: Too
often, they're the very words bird owners use when they talk
about their pets. Are you, too, the owner of an outta
control bird?
The good news is that you and your bird can have
the relationship you hoped for. With this book you'll
learn how to:
Solve the most common problem behaviours, like
screaming, feather-plucking and biting
Determine why your bird behaves in certain ways -
and how to have realistic expectations
Set yp your bird's home and your home so that
it's more harmonious for all
Feed your bird a nutritionally sound diet to
minimize health issues
Handdle a misbehaving bird properly.
£9.95
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Guide To Companion Parrot Behaviour
Paperback by Mattie Sue Athan
Whether you're bringing home a new parrot or
correcting problem behaviour in your companion parrot, this book
will give you a wealth of sound advice on choosing between a
young parrot and an older bird, selecting and training a talking
parrot, modifying your companion parrot's undesirable behaviour
traits, periodically reinforcing behaviour changes, grooming and
virtually all other aspects of companion parrot behaviour.
The author, a respected parrot behaviour consultant, discusses
ways of coping with occasional problems that include excessive
screaming and feather chewing, and describes general differences
in behaviour among various companion birds - budgies, lovebirds,
cockatiels, macaws, conures, lories, and others. With
full-colour photos and instructive line drawings.
£7.99
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