A Complete List Of Sally Blanchard's Published
Companion Parrot-Related Articles

Books | PBR/CPQ | Bird Talk | Birds USA

PUBLICATIONS
April 1999 Sally Blanchard's Companion Parrot Handbook

September 2004 Sally Blanchard's Companion Parrot Handbook
Revised Second Edition
June 2002
The Beak Book:
Biting and Aggressive Behavior in Companion Parrots

January 2005 Amazon Portraits
November 2006 My Experiences with Cockatoos

December 2006 Selected Parrot Humor
January 2007 Parrot Vocalizations: Dealing with Excessive Manipulative Screaming

PET BIRD REPORT and COMPANION PARROT QUARTERLY ARTICLES
(Articles are NOT available as reprints but most Pet Bird Report issues are still available. See Back Issue list. oop=Out of Print)

PBR #1 (oop)
Goals of the Pet Bird Information Council and Pet Bird Report
RARE and the Caribbean Amazons
The Spinning Macaw Commercial
Vitamin A-Why, What & How
"Finger Tame" Your Parrot
Qualities of a Good Bird Shop I
PBR #2
(oop)
Species Profile: The African Grey Parrot
Common Myths about African Grey Parrots
A Healthy Parrot Diet I
Talking and Intelligence in African Grey Parrots
Feather Plucking in African Greys
We Take the Parrot Out of the Jungle ...
The Importance of Early Socialization
Qualities of a Good Bird Shop II
PBR #3
(oop)
Species Profile: The "Excitable" Amazons
Amazon "Overload"
Qualities of a Good Bird Shop III
A Healthy Parrot Diet II
Amazons and Noise
The Selling and Buying of Smuggled Birds
A Pet Parrot Isn't For Everyone
How to "Pick Up" a Parrot
Social Bonding and Imprinting
PBR #4
(oop)
Soft Eye/Evil Eye Using Eye Contact to Communicate with your Parrot
Covering the Cage
Species Profile: Caiques-The Bird That Would Be King
Why I Recommend Certain Breeders or Pet Shops
Socializing Parrots
PBR #5
(oop)
Assertiveness, Dominance, Discipline, Control:
     Are These Really Nasty Words?

Bad Pet Shops: What's A Person To Do?
Grooming: Your Bird Will Still Love You
PBR #6
(oop)
Phobic Feather Picking
How's Your Bappy?
Bird Toy Safety
PBR #7
(oop)
The Importance of Cage Dominance
Little Bird Lost
Giving Your Parrot A Bath
PBR #8
(available as back issue)
Life Stages of A Pet Parrot
Introducing Your Parrot to Strangers
My Bird Won't Eat That!
PBR #9
(oop)
The Two-faced Parrot: Understanding Changes in Parrot Personality
Bappyopoly: A Game About Raising A Healthy Happy Sociable Pet Parrot
Bedtime for Birds
PBR #10
(available as back issue)
The Parrot Information Maze: Myths & Misinformation
The Most Important Word In The English Language: UP
PBR #11 (oop)
Protecting Your Parrot's Emotional Growth
Parrot Personality Generalizations
The Not Always Subtle Signs of "Dis-ease"
PBR #12 (oop)
Should Your Pet Be A Breeder?
Setting Up Your Parrot's Home
A Request for Accurate Information
PBR #13
(oop)
Behavioral Quick Fixes and Why They Don't Change Bad Behavior
There Is No Such Thing As A TOTAL DIET For Parrots
Budgies: The Most Popular Parrot In America
PBR #14
(oop)
What's Wrong with African Greys? What's Right with African Greys
Our Altricial, Nidicolus, Psilopaedic Bappies
Trust Building Towel Handling Techniques
PBR #15
(oop)
Companion Parrots as Mirrors of our Moods and Energy
A Response to Bird Trainer Steve Martin
Tips on Keeping Your Amazon Tame
PBR #16
(available as back issue)
The Bond Between People & Parrots
An Introduction to Pornithology: Understanding Your Parrot's Sexual Behavior PBR #17 (available as back issue)
Bringing Out the Personality of Shy Parrots
Handfeeding Traumas In Young Macaws
PBR #18 (available as back issue)
All You Ever Wanted to Know About Excessive Screaming but Were Afraid to Ask Because You Couldn't Hear the Answers
Patterning A Parrot to Accept Change and To Do Tricks
PBR #19 (oop)
The Realities of Amazon versus Amazon Myths and Generalizations
So You Think You Want Another Pet Bird?
An Editorial on Aviculture & The Keeping of Companion Parrots
PBR #20
(available as back issue)
Will You Still Have Your Parrot in Five Years?
PBR #21
(available as back issue) The Parrot Behavior Jigsaw Puzzle: An Overview of Nurturing Guidance
An Essay on Parrot Computer Boards, Opinions, Behavioral Credentials and Credibility
PBR #22
(available as back issue)
Winning Back Trust in Phobic Birds
The Bird Toy Biz: A Parable
PBR #23 (available as back issue)
The Complexities of Feather Picking
An Essay on Pet Loss and Grief
Spikey LeBec: The Celebrity Caique
PBR #24
(available as back issue)
Making an Intelligent Parrot Purchase
PBR #25 (available as back issue)
Beak Power: To Bite or Not To Bite
PBR #26
(available as back issue)
Understanding the Parrot/Human Bond
Parrot Diets and the "Idiot Factor"
PBR #27 (available as back issue)
An Editorial: Where is the Love?
Turning an Incident into a Pattern
PBR #28 (available as back issue)
Basic Parrot Personalities Part I
PBR #29
(available as back issue)
Basic Parrot Personalities Part II
Don't Spoil Your Cockatoo
PBR #30
(available as back issue)
Parrot Cages: Creating a Total Home Habitat-Etiquette, Logistics, & Accessories
PBR #31
(available as back issue)
Do No Harm: Editorial about Avian Veterinarians
Questions To Ask Breeders Before You Buy
PBR #32
(available as back issue)
Sexual Behavior in Companion Parrots
ARGH! An Editorial about Breeder Advertising
PBR #33 (available as back issue)
Really Bad Advice & Why it doesn't Work
Zinc and Your Parrot
PBR #34 (available as back issue)
Basic Tools for Keeping a Parrot Tame & Healthy
Adventures in Costa Rica
PBR #35
(available as back issue)
The Myth of the "One-person Bird"-Preventing a Parrot from Establishing an Exclusive Bond
Introducing Your Parrot to Strangers
Not So Subtle Mimicry
PBR #36
(available as back issue)
The World According to Bongo Marie
Raising Blue and Gold Macaws Together
Problems with Food Coloring
Getting a too Playful Grey out of his Cage
PBR #37
(available as back issue)
Bringing Bappy Home
Humorous Fiction: The "Eggs" Files
"Strange" Cockatoo Behaviors
Converting Parrots to Pellets
PBR #38
(available as back issue)
Basic Behavioral Characteristics: How They Apply to Life with a Companion Parrot
Umbrella Seduction
Nature versus Nature
Cage Contentment
PBR #39
(available as back issue)
The Last Companion Carolina Paroquet
Instructional Interaction: Working With Your Parrot Should Be Fun, Not Work
Living with Multiple Parrots
PBR #40
(available as back issue)
Punishment: Why It Doesn't Change Negative Behaviors
A Discussion of Dominance as Authority
PBR #41
(available as back issue)
Give Your Parrot A Job
Serendipity and Epiphany
Corn In The Parrot Diet
No Connection-Parrots and Lung Cancer
PBR #42
(available as back issue)
The Selling and Buying of Unweaned Parrot Chicks
African Grey Foods
Nocturnal Cockatoo
Feeding a Total Diet-Not a Good Idea
PBR #43
(available as back issue)
A Tribute to Bongo Marie
What's So Greyat about Greys?
Why is your Grey Biting?
Punishing a Blue-front
Unstressing a Green-winged Macaw
PBR #44
(available as back issue)
Editorial: Companion Parrots and Flight-Balancing Idealism & Reality
Screaming in Amazons
PBR #45
(available as back issue)
Recognizing Progress In a Fearful African Grey
PBR Writer's Guidelines
PBR #46 (available as back issue)
Biting: Getting Past the Fear
Editorial: The "Poultrification of Parrots"-Has the Bird Biz Shot Itself in the Foot?
Diet & Behavior
PBR #47
(available as back issue)
Comfort Behaviors and Repetitive Negative Self-stimulation
PBR #48 (available as back issue)
Testing The Status Quo
Pet Bird Report Questionnaire
PBR #49
(available as back issue)
Homage to Amazons
Explaining "Strange Behaviors"
PBR #50
(available as back issue)
Editorial: Transitions in the World of Companion Parrots
Teaching Parrots Self-soothing Techniques
Don't Feel Guilty If You Don't Need To!
PBR #51

Well Spoiled or Spoiled Rotten?
CPQ #52
The Syntax of Aggression

A Problem with the Media - O Magazine ad/Cage Size
 
CPQ #53
(oop)

Six Skills Your Parrot Should be Taught
Working with a Companion Parrot Behavioral Consultant
Handling Multiple Relationships in a Parrot Home
Thoughts about Mutilation

CPQ #54
The Three Levels of Attention Your Parrot Needs
Creative Chaos at the CPQ Office
Friends of the Caique

Seed versus Pellets Revisited
How Can We Help Parrots?

CPQ #55
The Few Absolutes about Companion Parrot Behavior
Dealing with Hard-core Aggression
Ethical Policies of the CPQ: Difficult Decisions to Make
Hormonal Overload as a Cause of Health and Behavior Problems
Friends of the Mini-macaws: Bojo - Always Smiling
CPQ #56
Understanding Sexual Behavior in Companion Parrots
Take Time to Give a Parrot a Chance
Friends of the Lory: Gypsy and the Poker Chips
I Read it on the Internet
In Regards to Tails
What Would Sally Do?
Memorable Parrots Making Friends: My Mother and a Hyacinth Bappy
CPQ #57
The Psychological Importance of Food
Synopsis of Information from the 2002 CPQ Convention

A Grey Going Through a Stage
Memorable Parrots: One Very Clever Grey

CPQ #58

What you need to Know about Feathers
Thoughts about Ethics, People Who Know Everything, The Bird Industry, Hoarding, rescue Organizations and other Stuff
My List of Guiding Principles
Training in Bathrooms and Bathtubs - Bad Idea!
Feather Picking - Let's Not Forget the Obvious
Memorable Parrots: A Hyacinth at my First Bird Show

CPQ #59
The Importance of Stick Training
The Chair Exercise for Fearful Parrots
Getting Older with My Parrots
CPQ #60
Editorial: Companion Parrot Terminology
Parrot Eyes and Vision
What I Have Learned about Macaws
Some Thoughts about Parrot Language and Talking
Looking for a Young Parrot?
CPQ #61
Basic Nutrition for Parrot Caregivers
Screaming Revisited
Friends of the Conures: My Slender-billed Conure Twiggy
Setting Up a "Treetop" Habitat from your Ceiling
CPQ #62
In a Perfect World
Stuff Your Parrot Wants You To Know: Parrot Legs, Feet and Toes
Roxi-anne - Journal of a Serious Injury
A Parrot Weekend in Colorado
Snippets: Colored Pellets, Sweet Potatoes, Guilt, West Nile,
    Displacement Behaviors
CPQ #63
Maintaining Cage Tameness
Roxi Adjusts to Her New Life on One Leg
Dreambirds
Dealing with Parrot Burn-out
Laddering and the Evil Eye: Not Punishment
CPQ #64
When the Honeymoon is Over
A Few Observations about Eclectus
Friends of the Bugie: Mickey Fin - My Childhood Buddy
CPQ #65
Is There Really a Problem with Parrot Overpopulation?
Don't Make Your Parrot do Anything He Doesn't Want to Do ... Good     Advice or a Misunderstood Recipe for Disaster?
Making Waves ... Making a Difference - My Life in "Aviculture and My
   Weekend at the AFA"
CPQ #66
Biting Revisited: The Easiest Problem to Solve
Why Parrots Become Extinct
CPQ #67
Ideas for Setting up Your Parrot's Living Area
Friends of the Double-Yellow Heads: Paco, Rascal and Pascal
CPQ #68
Fearful Behavior in Companion Parrots
The Most Destructive Parrot as an Easy-care Pet?
Friends of the Cockatiel: The Come-on
CPQ #69
Rules for Letting Your Parrot on Your Shoulder
An Essay on Why I Think What I Do, Creativity, Rigidity, Parrot
   Intelligence, Operant Conditioning, and Why I Am Not a
   Behaviorist
Rascal Finds a New Home
Change in a Grey's Behavior
What the Heck is That?

CPQ #70
What Cockatoos Have Taught Me I
CPQ #71
What Cockatoos Have Taught Me II
The Importance of Social Security


MORE TO BE ADDED


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Articles In Other Publications
(Not available as reprints from Pet Bird Report)

Bird Talk Magazine Articles

11/88-A Day In The Life Of A Wild Parrot—Comparing Daily Lives of Wild and Pet Parrots
1/89-The Importance of Toys and Play—The Dynamics of Parrot Play
1/90-Trust and Empathy in Parrot Taming—Slowing Yourself Down to Win Your Bird's Trust
1/90-The Psychological Importance of Food—Why Birds Need a Healthy Varied Diet
2/90-Shake, Rattle & Roll—Parrots and the San Francisco Earthquake Emergency Preparedness
4/90-Hand-taming A Timid Parrot—Winning Trust Through Patience and Perseverance
5/90-Understanding Sexual Maturity in Pet Parrots—Mature Parrots Can Be Great Pets
7/90-Don't Spoil Your Handfed Baby—A Spoiled, Poorly Socialized Baby Becomes a Pet With Behavioral Problems
8/90-Understanding and Helping Phobic Parrots—Helping a Parrot Who Seems to be Afraid of Everything
11/90-Socializing One-Person Birds—Getting Your Parrot to Accept New People
12/90-Physical & Psychological Household Dangers Around the Holidays (and All Year Round)
1/91-Why You Can't Punish a Parrot—Treat the Underlying Causes of Problem Behaviors Rather than Using Quick-fix Punishments
3/91-What Those Screams Mean—Understanding and Working with Problem Screaming
4/91-Outsmarting Finicky Eaters—Converting Birds to Better Diets
6/91-When a Good Bird Goes Bad—Correcting Behavior Changes Before They Get Totally Out of Hand
9/91-The Parrot Learning Process—How Do Parrota Learn from Their Human Flock Leaders?
10/91-Understanding Why Birds Bite—Biting is One of the Easiest Problems to Solve
11/91-Games Parrots Play—Ways that Parrots Manipulate Their Owners by Establishing Their Own Rules
3/93-Be Careful What You Teach Your Parrot—How We Teach Our Parrots to Bite and Scream
2/94-Developing Pet Potential—How to Raise the Best Baby Parrot Possible
02/2007-Setting up an African Greys Cage


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BIRD TALK PARROT PSYCHOLOGY COLUMN TOPICS:
10/91 to 12/00
10/91 Towel Trick
Greys are Vocal
Old Double Yellow-head-New Tricks
Cockatiel in Love with Reflection
11/91 Spoiled Patagonian
Moluccan Releasing Energy
Feather Picking Moustache
Six-Month-Old Congo Biting
12/91 Inactive Cockatiel
Finger Nibbling Blue & Gold
Lesser Sulfur-crest Starting to Bite When Returned to Cage
Drawing: Vacuum Cleaners & Waterfalls
1/92 Moluccan's Security Cage
Silent Canary
Drawing: Cockatoo Exuberance
2/92 Change in Senegal's Behavior
Establishing Rules for a Spoiled Moluccan
Deep Voiced Grey
3/92 Two in a Cage
A "Bat" Dusky Conure
Memory Capacity of Birds
Rainbow Lory Going Wild
Drawing: Trashing the Food Bowl
4/92 Halfmoon Conure & Meyer's Parrot
Early Risers Greeting the Day
Excitable Shivering Screaming Blue-front
Drawing: Toy Tantrums
5/92 Flying Cockatiel Fatigues Easily
What to Buy-An African Grey?
Two Blue-crowned Conures Bonding
Getting a Conure Used to Traveling
Out of Control Maroon-belly Conure
Drawing: Greeting the Sunrise
6/92 Do Birds Forget Abuse? An Alcoholic Husband and an Amazon
Wants Solutions with Specific Steps—Not Anecdotes!
Two Budgies Not Talking
7/92 A Severe Macaw's Fear of Strangers
Aggressive Yellow-nape Named Killer
Toilet Training A Quaker
Afro-American Woman-Is My Macaw Prejudiced?
Drawing: Championship Wrestling-Lory with Toy
8/92 Citron Cockatoo Biting
Unlocking Toes on Conure
Gaining Goffin's Trust
Zombie Blue-front Bonds to Owner's Friend
9/92 Don't Use Quick Fixes for Nanday Conure Biting
Feather Picking Grey
Drawing: The Rose-breasted Cockatoo "Roadrunner" of the Parrot World
10/92 Moluccan Mood Change
Husband Uses Abusive Discipline with Amazon
Drawing: Shoulder Territory
11/92 Taming A Neglected Handfed Timneh Grey
General Macaw Information
Sexual Behavior in an Umbrella Hen
12/92 What to do with an Insecure, Force-weaned, Poorly Socialized, and Hyperactive Grey
Is a Moluccan a Good Pet Cockatoo?
1/93 Grey Behavior Change at the Bird Sitters
Toilet Training Reaction to Placing Bongo Over Toilet
Lovebird Mood Change
Wood Chewing Grey
2/93 Depression After Grooming: Wings and Toenails too Short!
Adding a Bird to the Home of a Blue-fronted Amazon
Why Don't Parrots Always Return When They Fly Away?
3/93 Cagebound Blue and Gold Macaw
Husband's Jealousy of Bird
A Talking Mitred Conure
4/93 4/93-African Grey Night Frights
The Bird Room as a Living Space
5/93 "Spoiled" Umbrella Cockatoo Not Eating Unless He is Fed
Life Changes for a Senegal
Drawing: Finger Tame Parrot
6/93 The Balance Between Nurturing and Spoiling
Uncaged Sulfur-crested Cockatoo
Phobic Umbrella Cockatoo
7/93 Good Results with a Wild-caught Blue-fronted Amazon
8/93 Timneh Hanging Upside Down
Setting Rules for Out of Control Birds
9/93 Monster Cockatiel wants to be Friends Again
Perch Training a Back-stepping Macaw
10/93 Poorly Socialized Grey Feather Picking
Night Frights in Cockatiels
Phobic Rose-breasted Cockatoo
11/93 Protective Yellow-nape on Shoulder
Digging Grey Baby
Agitated Budgie
12/93 Does My Umbrella Want Another Bird?
Bath and Blanket Behaviors in a Cockatiel
1/94 "UP" Command Hand Training
Proper Socialization and Food Transitions for Baby Parrots
2/94 A Grey and a Yellow-collar Macaw Adjusting to Change in a Cross-country Move
A High Energy Bite After Jogging
Are Good Talkers Aggressive?
3/94 Plucking Blue-crowned Conure
Bonding in Birds-a Double Yellow-head and an Eleanora's Cockatoo
4/94 Screaming Problem in an African Grey
A Squawking Problem in a Bare-eyed Cockatoo
A Nippy Blue-fronted Amazon
Do You Dislike Your Bird-An Unloved Citron Cockatoo
5/94 Grey Plucking in Portugal The Importance of Proper Socialization for a Baby Grey
Flock Leader Double-yellow Head
One Person Cherry-headed Conure
6/94 Sexual Behavior in a Moluccan Lory
Biting Yellow-naped Amazon
Cage Placement
Multiple Birds Bonding
7/94 Cranky Blue-fronted Amazon-Does He Have to Go Into a Breeding Program?
Cockatoo Bites When Owner Returns From Vacation
8/94 Phone Ringing Grey is Driving Me Crazy
Taming a Toucanet
9/94 Greys Bonding to Each Other
Getting and Introducing Another Parrot
Confused Blue and Gold and Responsive Severe
Eclectus Toweling to Trim Wings
10/94 Guidelines for Knowing If Advice is Good or Bad
Grey Good on Weekdays-A Beast on Weekends
11/94 Blue and Gold Become Territorial and Cagebound at Independence Stage
Umbrella Cockatoo Wandering
Unusual Grey Behaviors are Not Unusual (Digging, Head stretching, etc.)
12/94 Becoming a Two-bird Family
Helping a Lonely, Neglected Parrot
1/95 Scarlet Making Holes In Everything
Timneh Pet Potential
Wean Parrots Abundantly
2/95 A Macaw Chewing for Attention
The Importance of Greeting A Meyer's
A Commuting Grey
3/95 Dispelling the Amazon Myths
A Grieving African Grey
4/95 Potty Training Parrots
Caique Characteristics
Appeal to Breeders to Teach the "UP" Command
5/95 Choosing a Cage for a Young Grey
Becoming a Parrot Psychologist
Hahn's Macaw Love Triangle with New Boyfriend
6/95 Regaining a Meyer's Parrot's Trust
Feather Shredding Grey
7/95 7/95-Do Macaws Make Good Pets?
Those First Few Months
8/95 Adding a Macaw to an Amazon's Household
Improve Lighting for Feather Condition
Stay Calm with Green-winged Macaw
9/95 "Come Pick Me Up" Wing Fluttering in an Amazon
Blue and Gold Loves to Hide Things
10/95 A Misunderstood Moluccan Screamer
A Biting Parrotlet
11/95 Daydreaming Macaw
Single Lovebird Can Be a Great Pet
Uncuddly Grey
12/95 Pinching Toes to Stop Biting-An Ineffective Aggressive Quick-fix
1/96 Choosing The Right Bird
My New Grey Hates Me
2/96 Bathing Fears in a Grey
Overload Behavior in a Tres Marias Amazon
3/96 Finger Chewing Macaw
Well-socialized Cockatiel
4/96 Quick Fixes Create More Serious Problems for Biting Umbrella Cockatoo
5/96 Amazon Mood Swings
6/96 Myth About Military Macaws
Winning the Trust of an Unloved Conure
7/96 Taming and Training Pionus Clutch mates
8/96 To Talk or Not To Talk-Amazon Won't Talk To Me
Repairing the Bond with a Moluccan Cockatoo
9/96 Feather Picking in a Parrotlet
African Grey Disturbed by Change-Don't Create a Rigid Routine
10/96 Weaning Trauma in Baby Parrots
11/96 Misbehavior is Often Temporary
Birds are affected by Owner's Mood
12/96 Teaching a Parrot to Talk
1/97 15 Ways To Teach Your Parrot to be a Good Pet
2/97 Mutilating Moluccan
3/97 Proper Nutrition and Eating Behaviors
4/97 Height and Dominance Theory
5/97 Do You Need to Breed Your Birds?
6/97 Develop Your Bird's Pet Potential-Yellow-collared Macaw
7/97 Learn to Work with a Phobic Parrot
8/97 Keeping a Baby Parrot Tame
9/97 The Exception to the Rule-Wing Trimming
10/97 The Importance of "UP"
11/97 Raising a Well-behaved Cockatoo
Taming a Macaw
12/97 Non-talking Grey at 8 months
2/98 Is Beaking Behavior OK-Beaking and Biting: Not the Same
3/98 Handling the Second-hand Bird
5/98 Dealing with a Screaming Umbrella Cockatoo
6/98 Too Calm Cockatoo, Parrot Behavior Compatibility
7/98 Tips to Tame and Train
8/98 Ways for Breeders to Socialize Young Parrots
9/98 The Game of Hit and Run and Overload in a Severe Macaw
Feather Picking Grey
10/98 When a Parrot Challenges Your Authority-Blue and Gold Macaw, Special Cage for Sleeping
11/98 Helping Phobic Birds
12/98 Caique Behavior
Just about any Parrot is a Good First Bird for an Educated Buyer
1/99 Is Eye Contact A Threat? Will A Smaller Cage Tame This Macaw?
3/99 A Rose-breasted Cockatoo as a New Pet
4/99 Feather Picking Amazon
5/99 Buying An Older Bird
6/99 Minimize Biting Behavior
7/99 Silence the Screaming
Which Cockatoo Species Should I Get?
8/99 How Long Should I Handfeed? Tips for Successful Food Independence
9/99 My African Grey Doesn't Like Me
11/99 A Beak Rubbing Habit
Is My Bird Afraid of Me?
3/00 Adopting A Rescued Bird
4/00 Dealing With Sudden Fearful Behavior in a Senegal Parrot
6/00 Mimicry or Conversation: Do Parrots Really Understand What They Are Saying?
7/00 Which Bird is for Me? A Macaw or a Cockatoo?
8/00 Answer That Ringing Parrot!
9/00 Successful Food Independence (Weaning)-A Matter of Time
11/00 Coaxing a Parrot From His Cage
12/00 The Parrot Puzzle
02/01 The Truth About African Greys

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BIRDS USA

1989—Parrot Grooming Tips for Owners
Tips on Handling and Bathing
Wings and Nail Trimming
1991—Understanding Parrot Psychology
The Basics of Nurturing Guidance
1992—The Five Truths of Parrot Behavior
1993—Importance of Play-Why Birds Need to Play
1994—Keeping your Lifelong Parrot Tame-Setting Rules for a Lifetime Pet
1995—Basic Training for Companion Parrots-Setting Basic Rules
2001—Twenty Tips For Continuing Socialization in the New Home
2006— Eight Mistakes People Make with their Parrots

Sally Blanchard has also had articles published in Parrot World, Psittascene, Pet Age and several other bird and pet related publications.




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