African Greys / Grey Parrot Books

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	For the Love of Greys: This book is highly rated and provides clear and relevant direction regarding all aspects of care and breeding of African grey parrots...an important guide and reference..." The Captive Foraging DVD to the right is vet recommended!
The African Grey Parrot Handbook - Barrons The African Grey can acquire a larger vocabulary than most other varieties, but with our without speech, it's a favorite companion among bird lovers. Here is detailed advice on nutritious feeding, caging, grooming, disease prevention, and much more. All books in this series have high quality, full-color photos, instructive line drawings, and run to an average of approximately 140 pages ... Ratings: 4.5 out of 5	<map name="boxmap-p8&gt> </map> <img src=" id="boxmap-p8&gt> </map> <img src="http:="http:"//rcm-images.amazon.com/images/g/01/rcm/120x240.gif" /> </map>	<map name="boxmap-p8" id="boxmap-p8"> <area shape="rect" coords="14, 200, 103, 207" href="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1" /> <area coords="0,0,10000,10000" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/avianhealth" /> </map> <img src="http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/120x240.gif" width="120" height="240" border="0" usemap="#boxmap-p8" alt="Shop at Amazon.com" />

Parrot Training: A Guide to Taming and Gentling Your Avian Companion (Pets): Originally published as The Pleasure of Their Company: An Owner's Guide to Parrot Training, this amply illustrated book is just what parrot owners need to bring up happy, well-behaved pets. You get: Hands-on advice from one of the nation's foremost parrot authorities A thorough explanation of "normal" parrot behavior and the benefits of training Coverage of everything from gentling fledglings and basic obedience to potty training, speech, and tricks ... Ratings: 4 out of 5	The Alex Studies : Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots Can a parrot understand complex concepts and mean what it says? Twenty years ago Irene Pepperberg set out to discover whether birds-particularly the large-brained, highly social parrots-were incapable of mastering complex cognitive concepts and the rudiments of referential speech. Her investigation and the bird at its center-a male Grey parrot named Alex-have since become almost as well known as their primate equivalents and no less a subject of fierce debate in the field of animal cognition. This book represents the long-awaited synthesis of the studies constituting one of the landmark experiments in modern comparative psychology ... Highly Recommended! Ratings: 4.5 out of 5

Lingual Apparatus of the African Grey Parrot, Psittacus Erithacus Linne by Homberge Ratings: 3 out of 4	Guide to Companion Parrot Behavior by Mattie Sue Athan Ratings: 5 out of 5

African Grey Parrots : Everthing About History, Care, Nutrition, Handling, and Behavior (Barron's Complete Pet Owner's Manuals) - by Maggie Wright Advice and instruction covers feeding, housing, health care, training, grooming, protection against hazards, and more. Texts emphasize pet care basics and are easy for all readers to understand, but most titles also present facts that even experienced pet owners and breeders will find new and useful. All books in this series are filled with high quality full-color photos and instructive line art. ... Highly Recommended! Ratings: 5 out of 5	The African Grey (An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet)This book emphasizes total care, training and companionship. It contains professional quality color photos. Julie Rach, former editor of Bird Talk magazine and author of The Cockatiel: An Owners Guide to a Happy, Healthy Pet, brings to light all the latest health, care and training information on this interesting bird ... Ratings: 3.5 out of 5

The Essential African Grey Ratings: 4 out of 5	African Grey Parrots Also said to be outdated (Amazon Customer Review). Ratings: 1 out of 5