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COCKATIELS, LOVEBIRDS, BUDGIES, AND MISC. SMALLER BIRDS
A Guide to Cockatiels and Their
Mutations
by Peggy Cross & Diana Andersen
This guide from Australian Birdkeeper covers all aspects of cockatiel management, care,
and breeding, including acquiring new stock, sexing, compatibility, egg laying and
incubation, and hand rearing and weaning.
95 pages. Color photos and b&w charts. Paperback. (1994)
$23.95 |
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Cockatiels! Pets-Breeding-Showing
by Nancy A. Reed
An American Cockatiel Society Panel Judge discusses cages, flights & equipment, diet,
common illnesses, cockatiels as pets, breeding, color mutations, and showing.
254 pages. Color photos. Hardcover. (1991)
$23.95 |
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Encyclopedia of Parakeets
by Kurt Kolar & Karl Heinz Spitzer
This beautifully illustrated book covers the keeping, feeding, breeding, and diseases of
parakeets. Special attentionis paid to the various individual requirements of each
parakeet species.
224 pages. Color photos and drawings. Hardcover (1990)
$29.95 |
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Ringnecked Parakeets and Their
Mutations
by T. Bastiaan, G.J.J. Bastiaan, &
Neville Armstrong
Exclusively from Avian Publications, every breeder is talking about this book from
Holland. This book is a new and exciting addition to the English language library on the
subject of Psittacula. This book is a must for the discriminating ringneck breeder or pet
bird fancier.
126 pages Hardcover. (1995)
$79.00 |
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A guide to Gouldian Finches
by John Summat & Dr. Rob Marshall
This Australian Birdkeeper guide to Gouldian finches covers the aviary, lighting and
heating, furniture and utensils, buying and transporting birds, Gouldian requirements,
diet and nutrition, color breeding, and health.
88 pages. paperback. (1991)
$23.95 |
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A Guide to Lories & Lorikeets
by Peter Odekerken
Almost two-thirds of this Australian Birdkeeper book is dedicated to identification and
color photos of lory and lorikeet species, including the Trichoglossus group. The
author's photographs are considered the world's most definitive collection of
lory/lorikeet studies.
96 pages. Paperback (1995)
$23.95 |
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A Guide to Rosellas and Their Mutations
by Australian Birdkeeper
This Australian Birdkeeper book cantains chapters on management, housing, feeding,
sprouting seeds, diseases, sexing, breeding, and genetics of fourteen different species of
rosella--the eastern, Tasmania eastern, golden-mantled, pale-headed, blue-cheeked,
northern, Kimberley northern, western, red-backed western, crimson, northern crimson,
yellow, Adelaide, and Tasmanian rosella and their mutations.
78 pages. Paperback. (1990)
$23.95 |
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Finches and Their Care
by Carl Aschenborn
This book is a comprehensive study of estrildid finches in the home and in their natural
habitats. Individual species accounts are filled with data on distribution, diet,
breeding, and subspecies.
159 pages. Color photos (1990)
$35.95 |
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Handbook of Lories and Lorikeets
by Roger Sweeney
This handbook summarizes current practices regarding housing, diet, and general care of
lories and lorikeets. It also includes a discussion of captive breeding, artificial
incubation, and hand rearing, and concludes with a survey of all Loriinae species
and subspecies.
160 pages. Color photos and drawings. Hardcover (1993)
$23.95 |
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A guide to Australian Grassfinches
by Russell Kingston
Each of the eighteen Australian Estrildidae species is identified and discussed in
this new book from Australian Birdkeeper, with details on management, nutrition,
quarantine, housing, compatibility, sexing, breeding, fledging, weaning, and color
mutations.
80 pages. Color photos and b&w maps and drawings. Paperback (1997)
$23.95 |
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Finches and Sparrows: An Identification
Guide
by Peter Clement
For the first time all 290 finch and sparrow species in the Fringillidae, Estrildidae,
and Passeridae families are described and illustrated in color. Sections on voice,
status, behavior, distribution, movements, and measurements, together with information on
species as cage birds, make this the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide on these
birds.
512 pages. Color drawings. Hardcover (1993)
$49.50 |
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The Gouldian Finch
by Stewart Evans & Mike Fidler
Comprehensive and up-to-date text on keeping and breeding these colorful birds. This
authoritive work completely covers of all aspects of Gouldian finch keeping with emphasis
on breeding, feeding, fostering, color mutations, acclimatizing new stock, diseases, and
behavior
144 pages. Color photos and b&w drawings and charts. Hardcover. (1986)
$24.00 |
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The Colored Atlas of Lovebirds
by Dr. Alessandro D'Angieri
A must-have for every Agapornis enthusiast, this book explores the unique behavior
patterns of lovebirds, useful techniques for breeding these birds, and a simplified
discussion of the genetics of the many available mutations.
192 pages. Color photos and b&w drawings. hardcover (1997)
$29.95 |
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The Professional's Book of Lovebirds
by John Coburn
Chapters in this new book cover lovebird natural history, cages and aviaries, species and
varieties, nutrition, breeding, health and hygiene, and exhibition.
160 pages. Color photos and drawings. Hardcover (1991)
$17.95 |
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