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The Complete Bird Owner's Handbook
by: Gary A. Gallerstein, et al. |
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Price: $20.90
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Average Rating: 4.5
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Published: 1994-05
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Editorial review:
bThe Complete Bird Owner's Handbook/b is the long-awaited second edition of Dr. Gary A. Gallerstein's benchmark text, Bird Owner's Home Health and Care Handbook. The title of this edition reflects the fact that this book is the most thorough and current work in print for all bird owners at all levels and professionals, too. Here you will find the answers to all your questions and instructions for the needs of every bird you own—one or an aviary full. Look through it once and see for yourself. Presented in four parts and fifteen chapters, bThe Complete Bird Owner's Handbook/b furnishes guidance in getting started, shows how to achieve optimum condition in health care, helps you to be more informed in medicine and provides a reference section that helps you better understand your bird and what it needs for a happy, healthy life. User-friendly from cover to cover, bThe Complete Bird Owner's Handbook/b provides an index of signs to help in emergencies and a general index to locate any topic in seconds. An excellent bibliography directs you to additional sources of information, and the many superb photos and drawings lend graphic emphasis to the detailed text. While no book can ever supplant prof essional veterinary care, bThe Complete Bird Owner's Handbook/b will provide you with the insights you need to help your bird's doctor when the need arises. You'll consider bThe Complete Bird Owner's Handbook/b the most essential book in your avian library—a constant source of reliable advice, assistance and assurance for your bird's well-being.
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5 stars. A must have book for every bird owner!
This is one of the most complete bird care books. It really should be in every bird owners home.
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5 stars. Bird owners manual
An excellent book that is easy to use as a reference and has the most current thinking on the correct way to care and feed birds.
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4 stars. The Complete Pet Bird Owner's Handbook by Gary A. Gallerstein [Hardcover]
This book was purchased for historical purposes only to see how far we have come in aviculture.
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br /I caution any new pet bird owner looking for a owner's handbook on birds to buy a CURRENT book--this is very important. Spend the extra dollars for the most updated information. Many things have changed over the years.
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5 stars. As the title indicates, this book is "complete".
As the title indicates, this book is "complete". Dr. Gallerstein starts off with a chapter to really make a person think about whether a pet bird would be right for you. If the answer to this is "yes", he then goes on to help you decide which bird you should be looking for - age, size, noise level, how to pick a healthy bird, etc.
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br /He gives a brief description of several types of birds, indicating where they live in the wild, their size, noise level, age at maturity, activity level, playfulness, destructiveness, cuddliness, talking potential, biting potential and whether they are good for first-time bird owners. He also gives the potential life span for these birds.
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br /Dr. Gallerstein then talks about bringing your new bird home. He gives some excellent examples of the "do's and the don'ts" to help a bird owner introduce a new bird into the household. He talks about what causes stress how to reduce stress as well as the daily care and the weekly care required for this bird and a few time saving tips to help you out.
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br /The chapter on proper caging furnishings provides plenty of information to help you make a decision about what is required for birds ranging from finches, canaries budgies to the macaws. There is even a shopping list provided so that you don't forget anything when you go to the pet supply store to pick out your bird's accessories.
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br /The nutrition chapter covers information for new bird owners as well as experienced bird owners. Dr. Gallerstein explains what should be fed to your bird as well as why so you will have a good reason to start making changes in your bird's diet, if you haven't been following this advice. This chapter ends with some wonderful recipes.
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br /At some point, you are going to have to hold your bird and the chapter on bird restraint explains how to do this for the various sized birds. Dr. Gallerstein then moves nicely into the chapter on grooming with detailed pictures to help with his descriptions.
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br /Safety for your bird is important information is provided regarding young children, other pets (including other birds) and household dangers. Everyone wants a well-behaved parrot and Dr. Gallerstein leads both new experienced parrot owners through some very informative suggestions and ideas.
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br /The chapter titled Avian Anatomy and Physiology has extremely interesting information including colour photographs of normal and not so normal parrot droppings.
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br /Home Physicals and Veterinary Care are both chapters that provide information for experienced pet bird owners as well as the new bird owner and should really be read more than once to help you remember all the important information in it.
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br /Another valuable chapter is titled Medical Emergencies and it starts off with a list indicating which emergencies are life threatening, which require veterinary attention within the day which can wait until the next day for treatment. Each of the emergencies is then discussed in more detail throughout the chapter.
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br /This is an excellent book for both new and experienced bird owners that I highly recommend.
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5 stars. We require this book
We give this book to all our adoptive candidates, and we test them on their knowledge before they take home a bird from The Gabriel Foundation. We order cases of this book! It is the most comprehensive bird book out there. There are more in depth books on behavior, species, medicine, etc, but if you are only getting one book **which you shouldn't do- there are many great parrot books and the more you know*** this is a fine choice. The list of safe woods is invaluable.
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