Description
The greatest how-to guide that was ever written on the Breeding, Rearing and Management of Parrots. Sure to replace “Parrots Their Care and Breeding.” The author, Tony Silva, is a world-renowned Aviculturalist. Over 42 chapters that take you through the intricacies of successfully choosing and breeding your parrots. It also contains over 88 color photos shot by the author, none less than 1/2 page. All photos were shot by the Author and never before seen. Over 6500 copies sold (prior to publication). Don’t miss out on this title.
Product Details
- Condition: New
- Hardcover: 330 pages with dust jacket
- Publisher: Silvio Mattacchione & Co. (1991)
- Language: English
- Illustrations: 88 Color photos by the author
- ISBN-10: 1895270022
- ISBN-13: 978-1895270020
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 740 g
Contents:
1. Pressures on Wild Parrot Populations and the Role of Aviculture 2. Selecting The Species to Breed 3. Parrots Husbandry 4. Incubation 5. Hand Rearing 6. Parrot Chicks 7. Bird Marking Systems 8. Mutations 9. Selecting a Pet Parrot and Keeping it Healthy 10. Taming 11. Species Account 12. Lories and Locikeets: The brush Tongued Parrots 13. Cockatoos 14. The Nestors 15. Fig Parrots 16. Blue-rumped Parrot Psittinus cyanurus |
17. Tanynathus Parrots 18. Eclectus Parrots Eclectus Roratus 19. Pesquet’s Parrot Psittrichas fulgidus 20. Shining Parrots Prosopeia spp 21. Australian Broad-tailed Parrots 22. Red-capped Parrot Purpureicephalus spurius 23. New Zealand and New Caledonian Parakeets 24. Neophema Parrots 25. Swift Parrots Lathamus discolor 26. Budgerigars Melopsittacus undulatus 27. Pezoporus, Geopsittacus and Strigops – The Night Parrot 28. Vasa Parrots Coracopsis spp 29. African Parrots (genera: Psittacus and Poicephalus) 30. Lovebirds Agapornis spp 31. Hanging Parrots: Loriculus spp 32. Psittacula Parakeets |
33. Macaws, Conures and Related Parrots 34. Bolborhynchus Parakeets 35. Parrotlets 36. Brotogeris, The Tui Parakeets 37. Caiques Pionites spp 38. Pionopsitta Parrots 39. Short-tailed Parrots Graydidascalus brachyurus 41. Amazon Parrots Amazona spp 42. Hawk-headed Parrots Demptyus accipitrinus 43. Purple-bellied Parrots Triclaria malachitacea 44. The “Unknowns” 45. Bibliography Appendix I: The Sexually Dimorphic Species Appendix II: Magazines Dedicated to Parrots |
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