Instructions for selecting and purchasing birds; using cages, aviaries, equipment, and food; catching, holding, grooming, traveling with, taming, and training birds; and other aspects of keeping birds as pets.
A colorful guide for bird owners that includes advice on bird purchasing, cages and aviaries, and daily bird care, and profiles more than sixty types of finches, softbills, parrots, and other birds such as doves and pheasants.
Describes how to care for birds as pets, discussing such issues as feeding, housing, taming, and breeding. Text and photographs describe varieties of songbirds, talking birds, and exotic birds.
Presents a fact book about various types of birds and provides information on their origin and history, basic care and feeding of pet birds, and birds that can speak.
Describes the different ways in which children care for birds as pets, and features a brief story about Kim's attempts to teacher her bird Ty to say hello.
"Describes how to care for a pet bird, compares types of birds, and discusses wild bird behavior as compared to domestic birds in order to help readers decide if a bird is the right pet for them"--Provided by publisher.
