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Hand-Rearing Birds | 
 enlarge | Creators: Laurie Gage, Rebecca Duerr
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Category: Book
List Price: $79.99
Buy New: $63.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 596791
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 756
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7.1 x 1
ISBN: 0813806666
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.68
EAN: 9780813806662
Publication Date: July 1, 2007
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Product Description
Hand-Rearing Birds will provide the reader with a guide to the best methods of hand rearing all major species of birds. The book is broken into two sections. The first section covers standard hand raising methods and equipment, while the second provides individual chapters devoted to many major avian species. This book will be an invaluable reference for shelter veterinarians, zoo veterinarians, avian veterinarians, aviculturists, bird enthusiasts, and conservationists alike.
Book Description
Thousands of individuals are devoted to the rehabilitation, raising, and conservation of birds. Hand Rearing Birds will provide the reader with a guide to the best methods of hand rearing all major species of birds. The book is broken into two sections. The first section covers standard hand raising methods and equipment, while the second provides individual chapters devoted to many major avian species. This book will be an invaluable reference for shelter veterinarians, zoo veterinarians, avian veterinarians, aviculturists, bird enthusiasts and conservationists alike.
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The best book of its kind! November 30, 2008
I work at a rehabilitation center (Liberty Wildlife) that has been helping save Arizona's native wildlife for 27 years and receive over 4000 native animals yearly (most or which are birds), so we have a large wealth of knowledge there. This book gave us that extra edge in helping us to rehabilitate the more difficult and lesser seen orphaned birds as well as the common ones! It goes through everything from hatchlings to nestlings to fledglings and describes how the dietary needs of the birds change and at what stages to do that. This is especially helpful with finicky birds such as the corvids where it maps out a daily regiment to feed these birds. It also covers a very wide variety of species, from US natives to lots of different exotics as well as common diseases that can afflict the various species and what to look for/how to cure it. I found this especially helpful in the finch section that describes "sudden finch death syndrome" which we see often at the facility and now have new tools to combat it. I've never found a book on the subject that's even close to as informative as this. This is a MUST HAVE book for anyone hand-rearing birds. Even those who think they know it all will probably get some new and useful ideas from this book.
Bird hand-rearing techniques April 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Thanks for sending exactly what was ordered. It was a fast shipment and the book was in excellent condition! Thank you!
Hand Rearing Birds byGage January 3, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The prodcut arrived in a timely manner and was free from damage. The person who received it as a gift was very pleased and felt it had even more info than she originally thought. She is a bird rehabilitator so and takes care of lots of babies every year so if she thought it was a good book, it probably was.
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