This title featuring 300 colour photographs over 160 pages includes extensive captive care details from housing, feeding, breeding—incubation & hand rearing and health & diseases. Available in hard and soft cover.
A Guide to Australian Black Cockatoos (Soft Cover)
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This title featuring 300 colour photographs over 160 pages includes extensive captive care details from housing, feeding, breeding—incubation & hand rearing and health & diseases. Available in hard and soft...
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Neville & Noddy Connors
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Softcover
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CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Threats to Survival of Black Cockatoos
- Conservation of Black Cockatoos
- Wildlife Authorities
- Export Australian Birds
- Distribution of Black Cockatoos
- Characteristics
- Taxonomy
- Black Cockatoo Subspecies and Species Classification
- Captivity
- Selecting a Healthy Bird
- Quarantine
- Handling
- Housing Black Cockatoos
- Aviaries
- Rodent Control
- Perches
- Nesting Logs and Nest boxes
- Hygiene
- Security
- Food and Water Bowls
- Feeding Black Cockatoos
- Spouted Seeds
- Vitamin and Mineral Supplements
- Commercial Foods
- Breeding Black Cockatoos
- Selecting Stock
- Colony Breeding
- Mating and Infertility
- Nest Inspection
- Egg Sizes
- Artificial Incubation
- Set-up
- Success Factors
- Hatching
- Brooding
- Handrearing Black Cockatoos
- Feeding Instruments
- First Food and Formulas for Black Cockatoo Chicks
- Monitoring Black Cockatoo Chick Development
- Weaning Black Cockatoo Chicks
- Black Cockatoo Growth Weight Tables
- Companion Black Cockatoos
- Choosing the right Black Cockatoo
- Veterinary Check
- Diet
- Behaviour
- Talking
- Enrichment
- Wing and Nail Clipping
- Diseases and Disorders of Black Cockatoos
SPECIES
- All Species Chapters include information on In The Wild; In Captivity - Diet; Housing; Nesting; Breeding; Handrearing; Mutations; Suitability as Pets; Status
- Gang Gang Cockatoo
- Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
- Calyptorhynchus funereus funereusCalyptorhynchus funereus xanthanotusWhite-tailed Black Cockatoo
- Long-billed White-tWhite-tailed (Baudin's)
- Short-billed ailed (Carnaby's)
- Glossy Black Cockatoo
- Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
- Calyptorhynchus banksii banksii
- Calyptorhynchus banksii macrorhynchus
- Calyptorhynchus banksii samueli
- Calyptorhynchus banksii naso
- Calyptorhynchus banksii graptogynePalm Cockatoo—by William Horsefield of Amazona Birds, South AfricaHealth and Diseases—by Dr Bob Doneley BVSc FACVSc (Avian Health)
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