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Author:
Mattie Sue Athan
By Barron's Educational Series
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: $14.99
Our Price: $0.92
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Binding: Paperback
Brand: Barrons Books
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.6865
EAN: 9780764106880
ISBN: 0764106880
Label: Barron's Educational Series
Legal Disclaimer: New York State residents are responsible for state sales tax not added by Amazon.
Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 1999-04-01
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
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- Category: BIRD
- Manufacturer: BARRON'S PUBLISHING
- Sub-Category: BIRD BOOKS BY SPECIES
- MFR-PART-NO: 688
- Made By: BARRON'S PUBLISHING
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Product Description
A companion parrot is to bird lovers what a favorite lapdog is to canine owners--a friend through thick and thin. But lapdogs can only bark or whimper: parrots can actually talk to their human companions! This book offers a wealth of advice on such topics as choosing between a young parrot and an older bird, selecting and training a talking parrot, modifying some of a companion parrot's behavior traits and periodically reinforcing behavior changes, keeping the bird groomed and away from household safety hazards and virtually all other aspects of care. The author, a respected parrot expert, discusses ways of coping with occasional problems that include excessive screaming and feather chewing, and describes general differences in behavior among various companion birds--budgies, lovebirds, cockatiels, macaws, conures, lories, and others. The book's closing section recounts engaging anecdotes about companion parrots, including the story of a bird owned by First Lady Dolly Madison. Mattie Sue Athan is the author of several other books on birds published by Barron's, including Guide to the Senegal Parrot and Its Family and Guide to the Quaker Parrot.
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Best book for parrot owners to date, 2008-05-09
This book is well written and extremely informative. A must have for any parrot owner. It is one of those books you can read and then re-read and learn something new each time. It's great as a reference book.
The techniques it suggests are simple and logical and can be applied to any species. It also would be a great book to read to help you choose which type of parrot would be best for your personal circumstances, especially if you are thinking about getting one of the larger parrots.
good choice for parrot lover!, 2007-09-10
Together with the other parrot-thematic books from the same author it is the hardware of information I have used. I have an african grey for three years now and at the beginning I made a search for every available information about the topic.
So it happens that this books I liked most as they are easy to understand, easy to read and enjoyable illustrated.
African Grey is a parrot which needs time and you have to keep in mind that he may outlive you by years. So what you teach him now will be remembered in 60years when your children will keep him a company.
It is a responsibility but a nice one:)
Yes, I can recommend to you.
 Average Guide, 2010-02-27
This book has a lot of good things going for it.
It has sections so you can actually look up the parrot you are interested in and read about that bird. My problem is that some parrot species have much more information she gives then others. She also makes a point in the beginning of the book of saying she wants to tell us the pros and cons of certain species. This never really happens in the individual species area. The cons are just something to skim off the intro of the books and in some of the chapters after the species sections. In fact, even when she does mention cons of a species it is just glossed over and it doesn't read smooth. She she to gloss over how loud conures can be for such little birds, and barely mentions the noise of the larger birds. Someone new to the species might gloss over this fact as the author does. Many times I found her wording in most instances to be to much like jargon and not like easy in simple words information.
I think if her book was better organized to include these cons, go into more detail on the species, and use simpler less beating around the bush wording, under the actual parrot species sections she would have a much better book.
Also this book makes it seem like you can jut look up a certain species and just read that part. But the author anticipates you are going to read all of the other species as well. Many times she includes a little tidbit of info about the species you are interested in, in a totally different species area.
It should really be split into two books. Because as of right now both sections of the book suffer from not enough information, and bad organization.
One book should be on the parrots behavior (with tricks and hints to curbing bad behavior), what to expect growing up, what they need and so on. This should be a book all by itself.
Then there should be another book JUST on the different parrot species, what to expect and the pros and cons. And created so you can just look up a certain species without having to read the whole book.
I think in the end this is a average guide to parrots.
Some people new to parrots, will get something out of this book. But people who have owned parrots before and have researched them won't read anything new here, and they shouldn't buy this book as a way to learn all about the different species or as a reference book to look up new parrots they haven't had contact with.
Absolutely Essential for Parrot Owners, 2007-10-25
I agree with all of the other raving reviews on this book. The book is well organized, the parrots are organized by continent (Africa, Austrailia, Asia, and S. America) and the author draws similarities between the types of birds from each area. As the title would suggest this book focuses on behavior and gives well defined characteristics of each type of bird, while emphasizing that they are generalizations and that each bird might be different. The author reiterates that the owner should not buy a bird with preconcieved ideas of what they will be like, but love each bird for thier individual personality. All over excellent information and the author is clearly an expert in the area.
guide to parrot behavior, 2007-08-30
For the person interested in different species of pet birds,their care and personalities, this book offers a generic overview. As an experienced bird "person" I was looking for a more in-depth description of a specfic species. I almost put it down without finishing until I paged to the individual stories of the different parrots. I enjoyed reading the stories of the different birds, their experiences, histories and especially how the newer owners understood and created a more fulfilling environment (love,care and concern)for them. I learned new methods of dealing with birds and appreciate any new method for understanding bird behavior. I would recommend this book for the beginner/intermediate bird lover but for the very experienced bird lover, they would do better to find a publication that discribes just one species. However, they would miss the wonderful stories in this book!
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