HANDBOOK OF AVIAN ARTICLES – Volume II includes reprints from Bird Talk, Bird’s USA, The Pet Bird Report, Parrots Magazine, and several veterinary sources… as well as something new – Liz’s columns from Bird Talk and the Original Flying Machine, including an incredible behavior column she and Phoebe Linden did for the Original Flying Machine.

Articles include:

• Six Things Bird Owners Do To Mess UP Their Pet Birds

• Your Parrot’s Unalienable Rights

• Baby Birds: What You Should Know About Them

• Nonsensical Things You Hear About Parrots (and birds in general)

• Behavior and Training For the 21^st Century Parrot – A History of Extraordinary Changes In The Fields of Training and Behavior

• When Good Birds Go Bad – Why Does This Happen?

• Seasonal Behavior in Parrots

• The Problems With Petting and Parrots

• Parrots & Crushes: Don’t They Love You, Anymore?

• Behaving Wildly: Uncover the Pitfalls and Traps of Problem Behaviors

This book includes a total of 60 articles and columns and 217 pages, covering issues like biting, excessive screaming, over-dependence, the “one-person bird”, excessive fear, feather destruction and self-mutilation. It also includes veterinary articles such as:

• Care and Handling of Bird Owners From Phone Calls to Office Calls

• The Psittacine Patient – Restraint, Handling and Grooming