Books

ok people having cleared my library of every parrot book and read them cover to cover I am seeking new reading material.

• so what is your favorite book?
• what book would you most reccomend?
• and are the dirty looks I get when returing armfulls of overdue parrot books normal for librarians?

lets make this into a proper thread share your birddie bibles and say what youv'e read!

he he that rymmes

CJ, i commend you on your dedication to learn everything there is to know about parrots and behavior - do you plan on becoming an avian vet some day?

overdoing it, thought, could be a bad thing - you might just get bored of the whole thing

well, if you wish, i have 4 books on parrot behavior, 2 of which are from Mattie Sue Athan called "Guide to a Well-Behaved Parrot" and "Guide to Companion Parrot Behavior". You dont need to get both - either one or the other because they both pretty much say the same thing. good books.

another is by Bonnie Munro Doane called "Parrot Training: A Guide to Taming and Gentling your Avian Companion". Great book with great ideas. i love the cute illustrations in there too.

the one book i have that i just skimmed and didn't like - cant really remember the specifics about why i disliked it, but i remember thinking that what this woman wrote went against many thoughts of other parrot behaviorists, including the other two authors mentioned above, was a book by Barbara Heidenreich "The Parrot Problem Solver". For some reason, this book just didnt agree with me. the ironic thing is that she seems to be a well-known behaviorist with parrots and other animals around the san francisco bay area - she even puts on a lot of seminars around here. i guess she must be doing something right, but im not interested in her techniques. i think i have to read it again to see what i didn't like about it....

all this was to figure out pico...but i wish i bought the first 3 books when i got my 2 conures. i would've made them less of the spoiled brats that they currently are. lol

alot more information i have accumulated has also come from a list of websites that i have dug up.

cant wait to see what other bird people are reading!

kate

Trust on on this one kate,parrot books don't bore me in the slightest.

It's proberly more of an obbsesion than a hobby now
I can't sleep without reading a good book on animals or my ringbinder of info.

I have found books on Amazon.co.uk lots to do specifically with conures but the other is Parrot Training: A Guide to Taming and Gentling your Avian Companion". The one you mentioned.

a bit low on cash at the minute so will have to wait and see never know other people may have some good suggestions

um here are some ebooks http://www.wowhellhounds.com/parrotebooks.zip

thanks for the ebooks!

thank you! cool

Wow, thanks for that link!

Downloading now