Books / Media for Finch Lovers*

Finch Handbook, The (Barron's Pet Handbooks) ~ Christa Koepff

Finches are relatively easy for hobbyists to keep in both indoor cages and outdoor aviaries. Here is advice on housing, feeding, and general care. Books in this series are designed and illustrated much like Barron's Complete Pet Owner's Manuals, but have more pages, even more photos, and more fully detailed pet care advice and instruction. Pet owners and people who plan to acquire a pet will find information on health care, feeding, and housing—and where applicable, on grooming and training. All photos are top quality and in full color. Many of the titles in this series also feature instructive line illustrations.

Ratings: 5 out 5

Gouldian Finches (Complete Pet Owner's Manual) ~ Gayle A. Soucek

These beautiful multicolored birds are native to Australia. When kept as pets, they thrive on seeds and fresh fruit. Here's reliable information on cage maintenance and general care of this popular bird. Barron's extensive line of Complete Pet Owner's Manuals presents information for non-specialist animal owners and prospective owners, with facts about each animal's origins and traits, as well as advice on purchasing, housing, feeding, health care, and much more. Each book is individually written by a trainer, breeder, veterinarian, or other animal specialist. Titles in this series cover every popular breed of dog and cat, freshwater and marine fish, many bird varieties, and virtually all other animals that are kept as pets. All books are filled with handsome color photos and instructive line illustrations.

Gouldian Finch: origins, anatomy, life cycles

Expert advice: Feeding, breeding, caging, health care

Understanding your Gouldian Finch:

• Body language and its meaning
  
• Step-by-step directions for everyday care
• Informative and attractive checklists and sidebars

Ratings: 5 out of 5

Gouldian Finches: Everything About Purchase, Housing, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, and Diseases ~ Matthew M. Vriends

Here's advice and valuable information from a renowned American bird expert on all aspects of feeding, housing, health care, and keeping a happy and healthy Gouldian Finch. Approximately 30 full-color photos and line drawings

Zebra Finches Complete Owner's Manual ~ Hans J. Martin

This handsomely illustrated book gives you a wealth of information on bird purchase, caging, health care, and much more. Books in the Complete Pet Owner's Manuals series present basic information about pets for new or soon-to- be owners, as well as detailed information for other animal hobbyists. Advice and instruction covers purchase, equipment, general care and maintenance, and much more. Texts emphasize the basics and are easy for all readers to understand, but most titles in this series also presents facts that even experienced owners and hobbyists will find new and useful. All books in this series are filled with high quality full-color photos and instructive line drawings. Length averages between 64 and 104 pages.

Ratings: 5 out of 5

The Complete Book of Finches and Softbills: Their Care and Breeding ~ David Alderton

Finches For Dummies (For Dummies (Pets) ~ Nikki Moustaki

It covers choosing the right species of finch, health care, housing and supplies, feeding, training, and how to have fun and maintain the best relationship with a finch.

Finches (Animal Planet Pet Care Library) ~ Rebecca K. O'Connor

Written by an expert on bird care, Finches offers useful advice on breeding, showing, and keeping these popular birds. It discusses both indoor and outdoor housing and provides an introduction to building an aviary.

All About Your Finch (All About Your Pets Series) ~ Bradley Viner B.Vet.Med MRCVS

Filled with full-color photos and easy-to-follow advice and instructions, this book teaches inexperienced adults and older children to be responsible for their ownership and care of their finch.

A Petlove Guide to Finches ~ David Alderton

Ratings: 5 out of 5

Breeding Zebra Finches ~ Mervin F. Roberts

Guide to Owning a Zebra Finch ~ Rod Fischer

Ratings: 5 out of 5

Zebra Finches: Everything About Housing, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, and Disease (A Complete Pet Owner's Manual) ~ Hans Martin

Ratings: 4.5 out of 5

The Zebra Finch: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet ~ Matthew Vriends

Ratings: 4.5 out of 5

Quick & Easy Zebra Finch Care ~ Nikki Moustaki

Breeding Society Finches ~ Mervin Roberts

Ratings: 4 out of 5

Society Finches ~ Mervin Roberts

The Guide to Owning a Finch ~ Rod Fischer

Ratings: 3 out of 5

A Guide to Zebra Finches ~ John Milton

Features 96 pages of casy-to-read, highly informative text covering such topics as History and Ecology, Housing, Feeding, Health, Choosing Stock, Exhibiting and all current recognised Australian Colour Varieties. Full colour throughout.

Australian Finches ~ Curt Af Enehjelm

The New Finch Handbook (New Pet Handbooks) ~ Christa Koepff

Hancock House Encyclopedia of Estrildid Finches ~ Matthew Vriends

Estrildidae includes many of the small African and Asian finches popularly kept as cage and aviary birds. This book contains a wealth of information on these birds, from their status and natural history in the wild to successfully keeping and breeding them in captivity.

Finches As a New Pet ~ Morgan Kelvey

Finches ~ T F H Publications

Finches ~ C. Enehjelm

Ratings: 3 out of 5

The Complete Book of Australian Finches ~ A. J. Mobbs

Ratings: 4 out of 5

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Paperback)

Rosemary and Peter Grant and those assisting them have spend twenty years on Daphne Major, an island in the Galapagos studying natural selection. They recognize each individual bird on the island, when there are four hundred at the time of the author's visit, or when there are over a thousand. They have observed about twenty generations of finches -- continuously. Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists as they watch Darwin's finches and come up with a new understanding of life itself.

Ratings: 4.5 out of 5

Sparrows and Finches of the Great Lakes Region and Eastern North America ~ Chris Earley

Waxbills ~ Michael W. Gos

Australian Finches ~ Curt Af Enehjelm

Finches and Sparrows ~ Peter Clement

The illustrations are attractive and useful for identification of all 290 finches. In many cases these are the best available color plates for the species. -- Review

Ratings: 4 out of 5

Finches (Naturebooks) ~ Sharon Sharth

Hancock House Encyclopedia of Estrildid Finches ~ Matthew Vriends

Estrildidae includes many of the small African and Asian finches popularly kept as cage and aviary birds. This book contains a wealth of information on these birds, from their status and natural history in the wild to successfully keeping and breeding them in captivity.

Finches ~ T F H Publications

Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches ~ Peter R. Grant

Product Description After his famous visit to the Galápagos Islands, Darwin speculated that "one might fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends." This book is the classic account of how much we have since learned about the evolution of these remarkable birds. Based upon over a decade's research, Grant shows how interspecific competition and natural selection act strongly enough on contemporary populations to produce observable and measurable evolutionary change. In this new edition, Grant outlines new discoveries made in the thirteen years since the book's publication. Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches is an extraordinary account of evolution in action.

Hairy Maclary's Rumpus at the Vet

Here's a rumpus, indeed: this beleaguered vet's office may never fully recover from the chaos that ensues when Cassie the cockatoo plucks a hair from the hide of Hairy Maclary ("from Donaldson's Dairy"). This mischievous deed sets in motion a rambunctious, rhyming riot, as various ailing pets all decide to forgo their restraints and cavort in grand fashion. And just as some semblance of order is about to be restored, the culprit seems ready to strike again. This extended poem forms the basis for that relatively rare commodity, a book that tickles the funnybones of parents and children alike. With its amusing alliteration, fanciful names (Noodle the poodle; Barnacle Beasley, the sore and sorely vexed beagle; "The Poppadum kittens from Parkinson Place") and rapid-fire delivery, Dodd's nonsense verse follows quite nicely in the grand tradition of Messrs. Nash and Lear. The pictures are amiably animated and suitably silly, but watch those wonderful waggish words.

Ages 5-7

Ratings: 5 out of 5

Charlie's World: The Improbable Adventures of a Hong Kong Cockatoo and his American Family (Hardcover)

"Charlie's World: The Improbable Adventures of a Hong Kong Cockatoo and His American Family" is an intimate, hilarious and heartbreaking account of a captive wild cockatoo, Charlie, and the quite unusual and prominent family who adopted him. The story stretches from the exotic Far East to the (possibly equally exotic) bedroom community of Scarsdale, New York. For about twenty-five years this surprising and beautiful bird was a part of the lives and conversations of the growing Topping family.

Ratings: 5 out of 5

Birds Dont Say 'Bow-Wow.' (Paperback)

Cockatoos (Red Fox Picture Books) [IMPORT] (Paperback)

Ratings: 5 out of 5

Professor Cockatoo's Amazing Weather Dust (Paperback)

Children's picture book. Large format paperback.

Feathers, Fur and Fins (Paperback)

Feathers, Fur and Fins is a delightful trilogy of highly imaginative stories about a cockatoo, a coyote, and a dolphin respectively. The Moluccan cockatoo named Bikkia finds herself not only separated from her mate but also in captivity in America. With single-minded determination she learns to understand English as she sets out to free herself and be reunited with Hantu Raya in the hope of returning to their native Moluccan island. Bikkia is truly unique as she recounts her stirring adventures to a sympathetic ornithologist in her native tongue. Dr. Z. in turn translates her first-person story - hence, The Moluccan Manuscript.

One, Two, Cockatoo! (Hardcover) by Sarah Garson (Author)

One, two, cockatoo! How many cockatoos can you find hidden in the pages of this gorgeous picture book?

Small children will love learning to count from one to ten, with this counting book and hide-and-seek game rolled into one!

Reading level: Ages 4-8

Ratings: 5 out of 5

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Ratings: 5 out of 5