The Simple Guide to Bird Care & Training

by Julie Rach

Loaded with color photos, tip boxes, and check lists, The Simple Guide to Bird Care - Training provides the tools needed to select the right bird, welcome it into a home, and then keep it happy and healthy. With chapters on feeding, housing, health care, and training, this handbook covers all there is to know about caring for an avian companion. The book also includes helpful tips and expert solutions to the most common situations faced by owners - from problem behaviors, such as feather picking and biting, to training issues, such as wing clipping and talking. Most importantly, the book uses compassion and humor to help owners transform a new pet into a cherished and well-adjusted member of the family.

217 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2002

Reviews

[Ember · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Simple Guide to Bird Care & Training reviews what type of bird is right for you, cage sizes, feeding, simple tricks, and a section in the middle where one page each is dedicated to the most common types of pet birds. Those pages tell you their care level, their size, their weight, common colors, whether they are good for beginners, whether they are able to learn tricks, and whether they are cuddly.
I liked the thoroughness of the guide to training your bird to do tricks and how it went through all the birds with the descriptions. I would have liked it to have had listed even more birds.
I would recommend this book to first time pet owners thinking about bringing a bird home.