Conure: Your Happy Healthy Pet (2nd Edition)
Outgoing, cheerful, inquisitive little acrobats, conures are entertaining companion birds. They're small in size, but big in personality. This guide helps you make your conure a part of your family, with information on:
- Choosing your conure
- Creating a safe, stimulating home for your bird
- Everyday care, including feeding and bathing
- Clipping your conure's wings—why, when, and how
- Training tips, from getting your conure comfortable with you to potty training to teaching tricks such as Ride in the Wagon, Nod Your Head, and Play Dead
- Teaching your conure to talk
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Book details
- Author
- Julie Rach Mancini
- Imprint
- Howell Book House, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 146
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Series
- Happy Healthy Pet
- Subjects
- Pets › Birds
- Topics
- conures · pet birds · bird care · bird training · bird behavior · bird feeding · bird grooming · companion birds
- ISBN-13
- 9781630260644 (Hardcover)9781630260651 (Paperback)
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.