The Complete Bird Owner's Handbook

by Gary A. Gallerstein

The Complete Bird Owner's Handbook is the long-awaited second edition of Dr. Gary A. Gallerstein's benchmark text, Bird Owner's Home Health and Care Handbook. The title of this edition reflects the fact that this book is the most thorough and current work in print for all bird owners at all levels and professionals, too. Here you will find the answers to all your questions and instructions for the needs of every bird you own—one or an aviary full. Look through it once and see for yourself. Presented in four parts and fifteen chapters, The Complete Bird Owner's Handbook furnishes guidance in getting started, shows how to achieve optimum condition in health care, helps you to be more informed in medicine and provides a reference section that helps you better understand your bird and what it needs for a happy, healthy life. User-friendly from cover to cover, The Complete Bird Owner's Handbook provides an index of signs to help in emergencies and a general index to locate any topic in seconds. An excellent bibliography directs you to additional sources of information, and the many superb photos and drawings lend graphic emphasis to the detailed text. While no book can ever supplant prof essional veterinary care, The Complete Bird Owner's Handbook will provide you with the insights you need to help your bird's doctor when the need arises. You'll consider The Complete Bird Owner's Handbook the most essential book in your avian library—a constant source of reliable advice, assistance and assurance for your bird's well-being.

Genres: Animals, Nonfiction

400 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1994

Reviews

[Kirsten · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good book to check out if you're thinking about getting a pet bird, and the health-related chapters are very well done. I did feel that the section on individual kinds of birds was a bit skimpy, and sometimes the information given wasn't very complete. For example, all of the parrots (with the exception of lorikeets) were listed as eating a typical parrot diet, which isn't entirely accurate -- all parrots have varying dietary needs, and I wish there had been more species-specific diet information. Other than that, it's a good book to have around, and definitely a good companion to a species-specific bird book.