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Section 1

Choosing Birds As Pets

  • Bird choosing questions
  • Buying Birds?
  • Bird attributes and selection of pet birds
  • Canaries: common health problems
  • Cockatiels: common health problems (Quarions)
  • Birds Ages and Life Expectancies
  • Determining the sex of birds


    What to do with New birds

  • Care of your new pet bird
  • First Steps in Taming
  • Quarantining pet birds


  • Section 2

    All About Caging Birds

  • Incompatible birds
  • Bird's, Mice, Rats and More !
  • Improving your bird's cage
  • Keeping birds in cages
  • Perches for birds: what and where
  • Bird baths and showers for birds
  • Suitable and unsuitable toys for birds
  • Hygiene Sanitation and Birds


  • Section 3

    Living with Birds

  • Bird Hazards
  • Bird No No's
  • Bird behaviour and body language
  • Sharing human food with pet birds
  • Human Diseases from Birds


    Feeding Birds and Food

  • Bird Food, Some Principles
  • Grit for Birds
  • Budgerigar Food
  • Canary Food
  • Galah Food
  • Pigeon and Dove Food
  • Cockatiel Food
  • Sulphur Crested Cockatoo Food


  • Section 4

    Handling Birds

  • Transporting Sick and Pet Birds
  • About bird bites and being bitten
  • How to catch caged birds which are not hand-tamed
  • A Bird in a Hand in a Cage
  • About Handling Birds for Physical Examination
  • Feeling Birds (Neck, crop, pectorals and abdomen)
  • Trimming beaks, claws and feathers
  • Leg Band Removal from Birds


  • Section 5

    Breeding Birds

  • Bird Nests, Logs and Boxes
  • Egg incubation: some principles
  • Hand raising nestling and orphan birds


  • Section 6


    Preventing Diseases in Birds

  • The Recognition of Factors predisposing Disease
  • Sick Birds: Masters of Disguise
  • Bird Droppings are important


    Bird Health Problems

  • First Aid for Birds
  • Broken Birds and Fractures in Birds
  • Concepts about Health and Disease
  • Abdominal Swelling in Birds
  • Beak Deformities
  • Cere Abcesses in Pet Birds
  • Constipation in Pet Birds
  • Crop Infections and Disease
  • Eggs and egg binding in Pet Birds
  • Eye Problems in Pet Birds
  • Feather-picking and Self-mutilation Syndrome
  • Heavy Metal Poisoning of Birds
  • Leg Paralysis and Lameness in Birds
  • Lumps, cysts and tumours in birds
  • Noisy Birds
  • Obesity in Birds
  • Pancreatic Exocrine Insufficiency in Birds
  • Pododermatitis and Bumblefoot
  • Randy Bird Syndromes
  • Prevention of Randy Bird Syndrome
  • Respiratory tract diseases in birds
  • Viral Infections in Birds
  • Psittacine beak and feather disease (PBFD)
  • Polyomavirus Infection of Birds
  • Psittacine Pruritic Polyfolliculosis
  • Avian chlamydophilosis, psittacosis and ornithosis
  • Tetracyclines and their use and abuse




  • Section 7


    Bacterial Infections in Birds

  • Bacterial Infections in Birds
  • Avian Tuberculosis
  • Coliform Infections in Birds
  • Megabacteria and megabacteria-associated disease (MAD) in birds


    Fungal Infections in Birds

  • Fungi and Fungal Infections of Birds
  • Yeasts, candida, candidiasis and thrush in birds
  • Cryptococcosis in birds
  • Protozoan infection in birds
  • Coccidia and coccidiosis
  • Cryptosporidiosis in birds
  • Trichomoniosis and canker in birds


    Parasitic Infections in Birds

  • Bird External Parasites
  • Learning More About Bird Worms




  • Section 8


    Treating Birds

  • A Wholistic approach to Bird Health
  • Shift the balance from disease towards health
  • Probitoics for Birds
  • Crop tubing a cockatoo
  • About Injecting Birds
  • How to inject birds
  • About Medicating BirdsŐ Drinking Water
  • Medicating Birds Eyes
  • About Nebulizing Birds
  • About treating birds by mouth
  • Moxidectin in Birds
  • Procedure for giving Moxidectin by Crop tube
  • Bird weights (common name order) in grams
  • Concepts about infection


  • Complete Bird Care Compendium - All Bird Types

    Over 230 pages of indepth knowledge about all kinds of birds.
    Buy the complete book by clicking on the PDF image below. The book has been broken into 8 sections that can be purchased separately too.


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