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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.
£7.99
 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
 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.
£7.99
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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.
£10.49
 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.
£8.99
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