Synopses & Reviews
Keeping birds has become one of the world's most widespread and popular pastimes! Whether you're hoping to own a parakeet, an exotic and colorful parrot, or pairs of finches, this handbook shows how to set up a cage or aviary. Point by point, it leads you through the process of selecting species, housing, feeding, caring for them, and preventing diseases. Numerous fact panels supplementing the text make for information-packed pages, with 300 color photographs and additional exquisite drawings throughout. A 30-page illustrated bird compendium identifies caged birds and details how to keep and breed them. An important and useful resource for domesticated bird lovers anywhere.
Synopsis
"...Tilford combines his skill in technical photography with his lifelong passion for wildlife to produce this handbook...covering purchase, care and maintenance, health, and genetics and breeding....a 30-page compendium of the most popular bird groups and the different species....comprehensive, well-written, interesting, and useful....stunning, full-color photographs set this book apart from other similar manuals and make it fun to browse as well as to read....Recommended for all public libraries."--
Library Journal.