CategoriesTags | Breaking Bad Habits in Parrots: How Responsible and Sympathetic Parrot Care Can Prevent or Remedy Problem Behaviors
Product Description An in-depth guide to overcoming common problem behaviors in parrots. Parrots are among the most highly intelligent creatures kept as pets. They are capable of forming very close and rewarding relationships with their handlers. However, it takes a lot of time on a daily basis to ensure that the parrot is content and mentally stimulated. Otherwise, the unhappy bird may develop a repertoire of problem behaviors, such as biting, screaming and feather-plucking. In this definitive reference book for the hundreds of thousands of parrot owners, a top parrot behavioral consultant explains how best to keep a captive bird in a domestic environment so that the pet will thrive, and reveals what to do to overcome and prevent problem behaviors. This authoritative book is organized into the following sections:
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Hand-Feeding and Raising Baby Birds: Breeding, Hand-Feeding, Care, and Management
Uses insights on parrots’ lives in the wild to help parrots in captivity. Many photos of beautiful parrots.
Rating: 5 / 5
Nice photos, well explained…There are many suggestions about how to treat your parrot properly.It’s a wonderful book for” Parrots’ beginners”.I enjoyed this reading.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book is good for both beginners and long term parrot owners. I do recommend it as one of the bests in the market. The photos and text are very informative and easy to read. This is not a scientific book but is built on solid scientific concepts which are made available in a very palatable matter. Another good part of the book is that it is very well contextualized including very important things such as caging and parrot nutrition.
Rating: 5 / 5
To start: saying “amateur ornatholigist” is much like saying “amateur brain surgeon”. An ornathologist is a scientist who studies birds. It is not a hobby. This author is at best a behaviorist or an aviculture enthusiast. There is no standard test or training for either, btw.
It’s not totally chockfull of bad advice. A lot of this is true, but because it’s true, it happens to be available in every other recently published book about parrot care and for free all over the web.
The biggest problem is that the author is of a common mindset of European bird enthusiasts–that free flight is essential for a health parrot. This is, as of yet, complete conjecture and has not been proven or disproven by any actual authority on birds whatsoever. I myself have very few behavioral problems with my parrots, and they all have managed flight clips (which allow them to coast for a ways but do not allow gains in height or speed).
I cannot recommend this book. In fact, I recommend running from this book like the plague. Just the idea that flight is “vital” to a parrot shows how little the man understands about biology and basic theories. If you want a better option, I’d suggest “Good Bird!” by Barbara Heidenreich. It is certainly the one I’ll be getting, as at least it is based on real scientific theory and not just the opinion of some guy that views himself as an “amateur” scientist and thinks gluing bamboo to clipped wings is a GOOD idea.
For the record? I have heard of using bamboo as splints for broken blood feathers. But that’s it.
Rating: 1 / 5
Here in the states we often recommend trimming a birds wings. I was really shocked that the author would suggest gluing bamboo splints to a birds trimmed wings. Glue? Bamboo? In my experience this is a plucking problem waiting to happen. Also a great way to lose a bird or have one injured if it should get outside fully flighted. The author is a “amateur ornithologist”? Did no one do fact checks? Much of what is written is not based on fact. I found the book quite disturbing. Especially if in the hands of a brand new bird owner. There are many better bird books out there. Keep looking.
Rating: 2 / 5