Does Anyone Have This Book

[Navre]

Comparative Avian Nutrition (Cabi Publishing) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0851992196/re ... HwbE924QMD

I'm wondering if anyone has this book. If you do, thoughts? It's not cheap, other wise I'd just buy it to see what's in it.

[Wolf]

Nope, not me, wish I did have it.

[Pajarita]

Sounds good but I wonder how really practical it is for everyday feeding of pet parrots...

[Navre]

There seems to be so little information.

[Pajarita]

o you mean about what the book is really about or about parrots dietary ecology? Because the first one is done on purpose (if you want to know, you will have to buy it ) - as to the second, yes, there is! I have the advantage to come from a country where we have wild parrots so I try to remember as best as I can what I have seen or heard about them eating and, when I don't, I ask my family so they can find out. For example, I have come through the argument that oranges are too acidic for parrots but those people have never seen parrots eating the oranges still on the trees back home! Salto is a department (it's the equivalent of a state here in USA) that is famous for its oranges and I remember going there when I was 14 years old to a month long celebration of the 15 birthday of a classmate that came from there (I was a year ahead and we celebrate the 15th and not the 16th birthday in Hispanic culture). We stayed in the capital (also called Salto) at their and an aunt's town house that was across the street but a small number of us also went an entire week to their hacienda (so we could ride horses and such - I started riding when I was a young child and it was one of my favorite pastimes when I was younger) and I remember seeing the half-eaten oranges in the fields and hearing the constant complaint from the peons about the parrots eating the oranges - so how could they be too acidic if they eat them in the wild?

But even going to what they eat in the wild is hard to translate into what we should feed a pet parrot!

[Navre]

We give oranges in the chop at the rescue. Someone asked about the acid and I told them about you seeing the birds eating the oranges in Uruguay!

Of course, I see seagulls eating all kinds of stuff that it'd probably be bad to feed them.

[DanaandPod]

Nope. The next book on parrots that I hope to read is: Max and Me!

[Pajarita]

We give oranges in the chop at the rescue. Someone asked about the acid and I told them about you seeing the birds eating the oranges in Uruguay!

Of course, I see seagulls eating all kinds of stuff that it'd probably be bad to feed them.

Seagulls are one of the very few avian species that are completely and truly omnivorous!