Cockatiel: Your Happy Healthy Pet (2nd Edition)
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SKU 9780471748243
The authoritative information and advice you need, illustrated throughout with full-color photographs—now revised and redesigned to be even more reader-friendly!
With a chirpy "voice" and quirky personality, the cockatiel is the most popular companion bird. Cockatiels are not big talkers, but most can whistle. This fun guide will help you from the initial "get acquainted" period throughout your bird's life with information on:
With a chirpy "voice" and quirky personality, the cockatiel is the most popular companion bird. Cockatiels are not big talkers, but most can whistle. This fun guide will help you from the initial "get acquainted" period throughout your bird's life with information on:
- Selecting a healthy bird
- Setting up a healthy and stimulating home
- Feeding, grooming, and veterinary care
- The unique behaviors of cockatiels
- Getting small children and cockatiels to coexist peacefully
- Teaching your bird to do tricks
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Book details
- Author
- Julie Rach Mancini
- Imprint
- Howell Book House, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 128
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Series
- Happy Healthy Pet
- Subjects
- Pets › Birds
- Topics
- cockatiel care · pet birds · bird behavior · bird training · bird feeding · bird grooming · birds and children
- ISBN-13
- 9780471748243
About the author
JULIE RACH MANCINI is a journalist and author specializing in pet care, with a focus on birds, whose titles include African Grey, Parakeet, Cockatiel and Conure.
Mancini began writing about bird health for Pet Health News in 1988, assisted in preparing the first issue of Birds USA, and served as managing editor and then editor of Bird Talk magazine beginning in 1992. Since 1997 she has worked as a freelance writer.
When she’s not writing, Mancini covers birds and small animals as her primary professional focus. Much of her published work addresses the practical care of companion birds and small pets.