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Breaking Bad Habits in Parrots

How responsible and sympathetic parrot care can prevent or remedy problem behaviours.

In this definitive reference book for 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.

Breaking Bad Habits in Parrots is the ultimate guide to keeping pet parrots. It provides practical insights into how parrots live in the wild along with detailed advice on parrot behaviour, enabling you to develop an excellent relationship with your pet.

The author emphasizes working with your bird’s natural behaviours, and, in particular, discourages clipping a parrot’s wings. Step-by-step instructions take you through proven scientific methods to prevent and change problematic behaviours, including excessive screaming, destructiveness, self-plucking, aggression and nervousness.

Teaching your parrot how to talk, housing your bird, first aid, basic commands including flight commands, and how to recover a lost bird are also covered in full. This comprehensive reference is beautifully illustrated with hundreds of colour photographs showing numerous parrot species at their brilliant best.

Chapters include:

Parrots in the wild
The biology of parrots
Living with a parrot
Different types of parrots
Acquiring a parrot
Understanding behaviour
Training your bird
Your parrot’s home
Preventing & solving behavioural problems
Escaped parrots
First aid

My Parrot Shop Review
My Parrot Shop highly recommends this book to all companion parrot owners, new and old. The author, Greg Glendell, fresh to the scene of authoring parrot books, presents a guide to companion parrot care built upon up-to-date research. An intelligent, well written and informative read from a fresh perspective.

Author: Greg Glendell
Publisher: Firefly Books
Published Date: 2007
ISBN: 1-55407-297-2
Pages: 128

Price: $38.95

Product Code: BRE538