PET BIRD REPORT: ISSUE #50
100 Pages - Published November 2000
Cover by Pamela Crookham
TRANSITIONS IN THE WORLD OF COMPANION PARROTS:
Twenty-five Years in the World of Companion Parrots
Sally Blanchard
LESSONS I LEARNED FROM MY PARROTS
Humorous article
FRIENDS OF THE RED-FRONTED MACAW
Diana Holloway, Pat Hill, Susanne Cochran, Kay Chorum & Sally
Blanchard
THE OPTIMAL ENVIRONMENT PART IV: The Social Climate
THE INFLUENCE OF HATCH ORDER ON PERSONALITY
Kashmir Csaky
TEACHING YOUR PARROT TO COME WHEN CALLED
Francois Joirus
RIPPLES A Moluccan Cockatoo Poem
Stewart Metz
GETTING LUCKY BACK Building Trust with My Phobic Hawkhead
Nancy Speed
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A COCKATOO
Sam Foster
THE FUN PAGES:
- What's in a Word?—Mary Arnold
- Recipe—Fowl Play
- If Parrots Had People For Pets—Sally Blanchard
- Coming Dear—Lynne Page
- Casey Jones at The Airport—Chet Furhman
TEACHING YOUR PARROT SELF-SOOTHING TECHNIQUES
Sally Blanchard
NOTES ON THE WEST NILE VIRUS
Vanessa Rolfe DVM
ECLECTIC MISCONCEPTIONS
Carolyn Swicegood
THE POICEPHALUS AND I
Terry Beaudoin
A GLIMPSE OF THE PARROTS OF MANU
Lynne Page
RAFFI: The Teacher's Pet
Elaine Wheless
RE-CYCLES: A Rescue Gone Right
Sybil Erden
HINTS FROM HINTZ: A Cheap Toy
Barbara Jo Hintz
WELCOME TO THE BIRDHOUSE: The Early Birds
Laura Ainsworth
BIRD CALLS
Joel Blumberg D.V.M.
Creative Cooking Concoctions for Spikey & Friends
Sally Blanchard
Adventures With Spikey Le Bec & Who-Dee-Do
Sally Blanchard
PRODUCT REVIEWS
Sally Blanchard
BOOK REVIEWS: A Few Really Fun Parrot-related Children's Books
Sally Blanchard
PBR Q & A: Feeling Guilty
Sally Blanchard
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE BACK PAGE
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