Amazon Parrots: Acclimation, Care, Diet, Diseases, Breeding: Special Chapter, Understanding Amazons

by Werner Lantermann

Barron's line of Complete Pet Owner's Manuals on birds offer basic information from experts in their fields. Books are profusely illustrated with full-color photos and instructive, high-quality line art. The texts are clear and direct, with useful information for nonspecialists, as well as information that even experienced breeders will find enlightening. Each manual is individually written -- not a clone from a single common catch-all book. Bird owners and those planning to purchase birds will find everything they need to know about feeding, caging, health maintenance, and keeping a contented bird in the home.

62 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1988

Reviews

[Andrew Ives · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fairly lightweight guide to Amazon parrots, involving how to choose a pet bird, choose their cage/aviary, feeding them, looking after them, the various types, how they behave and potentially breeding or importing them. The photographs are all very lovely, and the drawings are very good too. The text is a little stilted, somewhat repetitive, very brief and matter-of-fact. Having read this book, it made me feel that I'd need to be some kind of superhuman carer to ever keep a parrot, which totally deterred me, whereas I suspect it's not quite so difficult nowadays, with the ready availability of information online everywhere and better-informed vets and pet shops. 3.25/5

[Emily · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was interesting, but I found much of it outdated and more oriented towards the breeding of Amazons. I would have liked to have read more about their behaviors.