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All the guidance you need to choose and raise your parrot

Thinking about getting a parrot? This friendly guide offers expert advice on everything from taming and training to nutrition, health care, and parrot safety. You''ll see how to keep your feathered friend comfortable and entertained — and you''ll better understand the hows and whys of your parrot''s instincts and behavior.

Discover how to

• Select a healthy parrot
• Choose proper housing
• Teach your parrot to talk
• Correct behavior problems
• Keep multiple parrots

Parrots make a wonderful alternative to the traditional pet. They’re as loving, intelligent, companionable, and entertaining as a cat or a dog but they surpass them by far in many other ways. They don’t require walks around the block, they’re perfect for apartment living, most have long life spans, and they’re full of personality. Besides, when was the last time you saw a vibrant blue cat or had a conversation with a talking dog?

Whether you are just thinking about buying a parrot or you’ve had parrots for years, Parrots for Dummies is full of helpful information about how to be the best parrot guardian you can be. Parrots for Dummies is packed full of useful tips, hints, reminders, and warnings about everything related to parrots and their care, including

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• Bringing a new parrot hom
• Parrot behavior made simpl
• Taming and training your bir
• Travel tip

Author Nikki Moustaki, avian care and behavior consultant and author of Parakeets for Dummies, gives you all of her experienced advice about owning, caring for, and loving parrots. She draws on her professional knowledge as well as her personal familiarity with the bird to show you how to make the most of your parrot-guardian relationship. She includes information on

li>Purchasing and adopting a parro
• Proper housing and foo
• Parrot illnesses and disease
• Correcting behavioral problem
• Living in a multiple parrot househol
• Breeding and showing parrot

In addition to all the help and guidance, Parrots for Dummies comes with a full-color insert with pictures of over 25 different kinds of parrots to help you choose a new pet that catches your eye or find your existing pet’s nearest relation. So whether you’re buying your first parrot or looking for some advice about an old friend, Parrots for Dummies has something for you