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Cockatoos is a book in Barron's series of Complete Pet Owner's Manuals . These large parrots are native to a wide area that stretches from the Philippines to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. They appear in a variety of colors. Written especially to introduce inexperienced and prospective pet owners to the pleasures and duties of pet care, Barron's Complete Pet Owner's Manuals also make fine guides to pet care for older children. These heavily illustrated books are filled with helpful information on purchasing, housing, feeding, health care--and where applicable, grooming and training pets. Each book is individually written by an expert--a trainer, breeder, veterinarian, or other animal specialist. These manuals cover every popular dog and cat breed, as well as bird varieties, hamsters and other small caged animals, fish varieties for aquarium hobbyists, terrarium pets, and even exotics, such as reptiles, amphibians, and scorpions. All books have 70 or more color photos, and most also have instructive line illustrations. ... Read more

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This handsomely illustrated book gives you a wealth of information on bird purchase, caging, health care, and much more. Books in the Complete Pet Owner's Manuals series present basic information about pets for new or soon-to-be owners, as well as detailed information for other animal hobbyists. Advice and instruction covers purchase, equipment, general care and maintenance, and much more. Texts emphasize the basics and are easy for all readers to understand, but most titles in this series also presents facts that even experienced owners and hobbyists will find new and useful. All books in this series are filled with high quality full-color photos and instructive line drawings. Length averages between 64 and 104 pages. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (6)

Misses the mark
This book misses the mark, and it is by no means a "Complete Owner's Manual".

Cockatoos Complete Owner's Manual
This was just the book I was looking for.I am contemplating adding a Cockatoo to my family,(I already have two Macaws)....and this book was very informative and gave me alot to consider before adding one to my family.

Great Book
I have a goffin cockatoo and I thought this book was great.Very easy to read, good advise, worth the money.

Very informative.
This is a great book if you need a quick summary and synopsis about cockatoo ownership. In my case it helped me to see that while I am an experienced bird owner, a cockatoo is not an appropriate pet for me at this time in my life.

Brief but reliable
A great introduction to cockatoos and how to care for them, and it's honest about the challenges as well as the benefits of sharing your life with one of these guys. It has up-to-date information on how to house them, feed them, and keep them busy, and a very helpful section of brief descriptions of each spieces, which lets you compare the sizes, care, and temperaments--read before you choose a 'too! There's lots more to know, but this is a good place to start. ... Read more

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· Learn about your pet!

Cockatoos are large, intelligent and attractive birds. Of the twenty-one recognized species, fourteen occur in Australia, with three of these also found in New Guinea. Seven species are distributed across the islands of south-east Asia. While many species are common or abundant, an increasing number face extinction due to habitat loss, the illegal bird trade and global warming.

Extensively illustrated, Cockatoos looks at the ecology and conservation of these iconic birds, including their evolution, distribution, feeding and reproduction. It examines the pest status of cockatoos, the impact of the illegal bird trade and the role played by aviculturists in cockatoo conservation programs. ... Read more

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Packed cover to cover with full color photographs and plenty of scientific information
Filling the skies of Australia, cockatoos have long captured human imagination. "Cockatoos" is another entry into the Australian Natural History series, discussing this indigenous bird that battles extinction in the modern day. Tracing the story of the cockatoo from its earliest history to modern conservation efforts, "Cockatoos" is packed cover to cover with full color photographs and plenty of scientific information, making it an absolute must for bird lovers.
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All aspects of caring for cockatoos are covered in this comprehensive book.The Guide to Owning a Cockatoo contains information about housing, feeding, and training these loving and intelligent birds.An in-depth section on health care, in addition to a thorough discussion of the species' natural history and behavioral traits, is certain to prove useful to experienced owners as well as those just beginning to know and love these spectacular parrots. ... Read more

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Dont recommend...
This has nothing more to offer on Cockatoos than any parrot book. If you find something useful, you probably should not own a cockatoo because it is very general and anyone involved with parrots should know this already.
Nice pictures though.

Great guide
This is a concise and well written book on Cockatoos.It is well balanced in its opinions and advise.I recommend this to anyone thinking of adopting a cocatoo. ... Read more

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Publisher: T. Nelson and SonsPublication date: 1881Subjects: DiligenceParrotsJuvenile Fiction / GeneralJuvenile Fiction / Animals / GeneralJuvenile Fiction / Animals / BirdsNature / Birds ... Read more

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Count to twelve with help from tumbling tigers, winking owls and more, while you search for the two cockatoos hidden on every page. This clever counting adventure makes the perfect gift when paired with Alligator Alphabet. ... Read more

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...And 2 Cockatoos
My daughter LOVES THIS BOOK!! She loves saying "and 2 talk-a-toos" (cockatoos)... another book we read ALL the time and i really believe it has helped with her numbers and number recognition. Pictures are colorful and enjoyable. another book that is hard to get tired of. I generally read the 1 enourmous elephant and my daughter reads the "and 2 talk-a-toos" (cockatoos) part. Get the book and you'll see what i mean. Great for any 1.5+ year old.

Counting Cockatoos is a real gem!
Bright bold colors, adorable animals and a repetitive text will entice young children to read this book over and over. Along with the cheerful illustrations, the hidden cockatoos make this book stand out among counting books. Children enjoy finding hidden pictures in any storybook and the slightly camouflaged cockatoos in this story add to the enjoyment of this book. As a teacher, I am always looking for books that young children can retell, books that reinforce basic concepts, and books that can be used to inspire children to create their own stories. This is one of those books. More important, however, than its usefulness to promote learning, it is a delightful book, full of wonderfully appealing illustrations. It's the kind of book I want to give as a gift, to be enjoyed over and over.

One two three this is one Great Book!
I love the illustrations, and my children and my kindergarteners LOVE to find the cockatoos on each page. (I teach kindergarten) I highly recommend this book and I prefer it to Count!...its much more interactive.

i love this book
i read this to my little sister and she finds the birds. she can count to 12. ... Read more

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These six novels and stories probe beneath the confused surface to expose the true nature of things. This book includes "A Woman's Hand", "The Full Belly", "The Night, the Prowler", "Five-Twenty", "Sicilian Vespers" and "The Cockatoos". ... Read more

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Brilliant Very Funny Satires
Human social hierarchy in juxtapose .White is the eye in the sky .Funny and very cleaver .

Good but not the best from a Nobel Prize winner...
This is a collection of short novels and stories by the 1973 Australian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Most of the stories analyse in thorough detailthe same themes, studying with ruthless detachment the behaviour and thoughts of ageing coupleswho have drifted apart as incomprehensibly as they originally came together or irrational eruptions of violence or senseless rebellion against the superficial orderliness of mediocre lives.

Three of the stories stand out from the collection: "A Woman's Hand", "The Night the Prowler" and the story which gives the collection its name ""The Cockatoos".

In "A Woman's Hand" an elderly couple meet an old bachelor friend of the husband. Even though she is appalled at the shabby life the friend, a retired sailor lives, and even though she does not particularly care for him or for her husband's friendship for him (and in fact rather dislikes the ex-sailor), she decides to intervene in his life by throwing him together with a spinster friend of hers, who used to be an uncomplaining lady's companion. Rather unexpectedly, the bachelor and the spinster, decide to marry, for companionship in their old age, only to drive each other to madness. Two stories are brilliantly intertwined by the author.The first couples' life unfolds in White'scharacteristic detailed fashion in front of our eyes and constitutes an elegantly written winding down of a rather uneventful life. The second story unfolds in fits and starts, from snippets of news, conversations or observations and is the slow unravelling of the the second couple, which leads to the spinster's commitment to a mental institution and in the bachelor's probable suicide. The title is grimly ironic, since the wife's excuse for meddling in the bachelor's life is that she feels his life and homelacks a woman's hand.

"The Night the Prowler" particularly remind me of some of Graham Greene's short stories from the 1930s and 1940s but also pre shadow some of White's better known novels like "Riders in the Chariot". A sexual molester breaks into a solid, middle class home and apparently rapes a young woman. Her life falls apart, her parents are bewildered by the changes she carries out in her own life and in the end never ever really try to understand or reach out to her. However, as the story unfolds, we learn that though a man did break into her bedroom, she reversed their position, terrified the rather pathetic would-be molester and starts a double life in which she prowls her middle class neighbourhood at nights, breaks into other homes and vandalizes them in cold rage.

"The Cockatoos" again explores the relationship between an ageing couple in a small, drab, nondescript outback town, who have given up speaking to each other. As with many small towns in the literature, the story of the couple cannot be told without involving some of their neighbours: the woman with whom he has a rather long-standing and passionless affair, the woman's irritable neighbour, a gossipy would be do-gooder, his wife and their outsider son. A mob of white cockatoos inexplicably descends on the town and we are carried along with them as they visitate the characters of the story, touching and changing their lives. The mob is a brilliant literary device and Patrick White makes it work to perfection, carefully blending observation, points of view and staying away from heavy handed symbolism
which would have ruined the whole delicate effect. The couple starts reaching out, and there is a hint of locked doors being slowly unlocked, of light dawning and hearts blossoming, or perhaps more accurately budding, recovering a measured sense of wonder, a creaking, halting reconciliatory motion, a growing sense of potential for sharing and of falling away from everyday mediocrity. At this point, the whole delicate structure which has been painstaking built up is, it most be said, brilliantly smashed, as the irritable neighbour slides into madness and starts shooting atsome of the cockatoos to stop them from eating his magnolia blossoms, only to end up shooting the husband who has rushed out of his lover's house. The rest of the story is anticlimactic, and though it hints that some fragile common bond has somewhat diffidentlytouched the widow and the lover, it also shows that the senseless violence which erupted from the irritable neighbour has also taken seed in the outsider son and will continue its destructive path.

White is a brilliant craftsman and his prose carries you along effortlessly. I have always considered that Patrick's White most fatal flaw in his writing is his lack of closure: his endings do not end, they simply peter out. Even in his short stories, White is a novelist, his stories are rarely surprising in their development, let alone their dénouement, and in this sense bear little resemblance to such master storytellers such as Graham Greene or the undeservedly lesser known V.S. Pritchett. White simply and slowly overwhelms you with a sense of inevitability for which there is no neat ending; perhaps it can be said that White does not bother to end his stories: he simply decides when the reader can continue the story on his own. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (6)

out of date and no information
PLEASE do not order this book if you are looking for any info on owning a COCKATOO.
It gives NO detail information on Cockatoo's.
I will say it has some nice pictures.

big help
when i good my bird i did not know any thing about them this book has become like a bible to me not that the bird listens but i now know more then i did.

Taming and Training Cockatoos
This is a well written book for the beginner Cockatoo owner.It has a lot of information that is important to know.Cockatoos are very different from the Macaws that I already own....which came as a surprise to me.I have not yet purchased a baby Cockatoo.....and after reading this book, I am not sure they are the bird for me.Just like I prefer Mules to horses.....and they are very different from eachother.If you are considering a Cockatoo......this is great reading.Enjoy!

Taming And Training Cockatoos
This book don't have much on how to train your bird.It only tell you a few starter points if your bird is wild. Mostly has pictures of different type of cockatoos and telling about them, It also has about clipping wings and nails. If you want the basic of two steps in tamining and training this is the book for you. Too me the title don't go with this book !!

Terrible!
This book is a big waste of money! Personaly, I'm VERY supprised anyone published it!It doesn't tell you anything but what you already know from common sense, and it is extreamly repetive. It seems like the author didn'thave enough things to say so she repeated herself so the book would belonger. Please don't waste your money on it! ... Read more

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Taming and Training Cockatoos by Risa Teitler
This book needs to be taken off the market. The information is so old and out dated. It mostly deals with imported Cockatoos. Cockatoos and other parrots have not been imported since 1996, so it is unlikly anyone will be dealing with such a bird. Also the act of clipping only one wing has been declared cruel.

I really felt ripped off when I started reading this book, because I knew from the start the information was too out dated to be of any good. This book does not deserve a rating of 1, it is a total zero.
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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Animals / General; ... Read more

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When Professor Dupont's pet cockatoos decide to scatter, sharp-eyed readers are challenged to help the distraught professor find his fine feathered friends. ... Read more

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Cockatoos
Ten cleaver cockatoos lead the absent minded Professor Dupont through a zany adventure, covering every room of his old house.Young readers will delight as they spy the birds hiding in unlikely places.Parents will be thrilled as well, as the children count, and recount the elusive cockatoos.The illustrations are exceptional, as we have all come to appreciate in the work of Quentin Blake. ... Read more

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cockatoos
Older book however, has good basic information about Cockatoos. Not too much literature on these birds. This book has info all in one place.

pretty good but very basic
Layout is good but too many photos and not enough text. This is a very basic guide and left me hungry for more which I am having trouble finding. Can you believe I have found more indepth information on Tarantulas than Ican find for Cockatoos?

Beautifully illastrated. Informative.
Gave a good background on cockatoos for the new owner ... Read more

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A delightful counting and hide-and-seek book rolled into one

One cockatoo on his own in a tree.
Two cockatoos fly over . . .
. . . that’s three!

Small children will love learning to count from one to ten as they search for the cockatoos hidden in the pages of this gorgeous picture book.


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Very informative, and attractively presented
This is a standard, well-done pet owner's guide for cockatoos, including scads of information on the increasingly-popular pet. I wish that the book took more of a stand against the capture of these beautiful animals from the wild, but sadly, it merely warns against the health threats of smuggled birds.

Once you're over the moral quandary of obtaining your bird in an ethical manner, the book provides all of the information you could hope for. It not only gives you the basics of feeding and housing, but also has sections on breeding your cockatoo, and on understanding your cockatoo's verbal and physical cues.

The drawings are well-done, and many of the color photographs are simply gorgeous.

If you're considering getting a cockatoo as a first-time owner, I urge you to read this book cover-to-cover before you commit to getting your bird, as they have long life spans and are quite high-maintenance in some ways, and you should know what you're getting yourself into. Also, please support a local breeder rather than paying for the taking of these beautiful animals from their natural habitat.

Cockatoos
This book is no longer usefull.The info. is quite out dated foe example the author tells you that cockatoos need ONLY a seed diet. This was so 20 years ago. Pellets have been proven to be the diet with seeds (if fed) should be 10% of the daily diet. He does say feed fresh veggies,fruits etc.Also you are told about importing birds. This is against the law & has been so for YEARS.Not very much info. most info is only a few lines.under usefull literature & addresses he gives you names & addresses of magazines that are no longer in business. Over all the book is not worth the ink to print it.

Best Cockatoo Book Out There!
I gave this book 5 stars because it was very susccinct and informative.

PRETTY GOOD
This book was OKAY. It didn't really talk much about how big they can get etc. Also, half of the book talked only about bredding which IS NOT the reason I bought it. I wanted general information on just SINGLE cockatoosnot pairs!

simple but to the point
Upon reading this book, I found it to be a little too short in the areas I'm interested in. I've been breeding birds and taking in neglected birds which is one of the reasons I purchased this book. It is okay for someonewanting general information.( The pictures are nice to look at, says myson.) This is not to be used as a "bible". ... Read more

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12 x 12 closed, 12 x 24 open. All square wall calendars are 16 month style, so you can start using them from September. The text is in 5 languages: English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. The date grids are sensitive to U.K and European holidays as well as for the U.S.A. Moon phases and horoscope dates are shown on the date grid. ... Read more

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British artist Elizabeth Butterworth, has captured the beauty and variety of parrots, macaws and cockatoos. These are presented in this book in a series of paintings and sketches. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (5)

Beautiful book!
The pictures in this book of Elizabeth Butterworth's artwork are really incredible. This book would be an awesome gift for anyone who loves parrots. The pages are heavyweight paper and could be framed and put on the wall. I thoroughly enjoy this book and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys parrots and gorgeous artwork. I am a parrot breeder and many of my customers have enjoyed looking at the book.

Not what I expected
I was looking for books to help with the behavior of my macaw.This book is full of pictures, beautiful pictures.However, I really need help with my bird.Maybe I didn't read the description thoroughly enough.

"For the Parrot & Art Lover Both"
This is an oversized book of vividly colored line-drawings of the Cockatoo, Macaw, and Amazon parrots species.It's a truly magnificently produced book with Elizabeth Butterworth's beautiful artistic drawings that are just so realistic.You could actually frame many of these drawings, they are that good.There's a wonderful introduction about all these parrots by Elizabeth that is inspirational.If you're a lover of birds, or have companion parrots yourself, don't miss this book.

Excellent
One of the best bird drawings I have seen, they are so well done, that one wishes to frame each one of the them, if you like birds and you like colour this book is for you.

Parrots, MacAws and Cockatoos : The Art of Elizabeth Butterw
If you are a lover of cockatoo, macaw and amazon, the line-drawings of these birds will take your breath away. When I first opened the book, I gasped! Ms. Butterworth has captured the essence of their character, evenmore so than a photograph. The line-drawings in this book deserve to beframed and showcased in a prominent position in your home. I bought 3books. I framed pictures from the first, and kept the second for reference,and gave the third book as a gift to Dr. Bernadette Plair who is with theCincinnati Zoo. Dr. Plair recently (March 2000), successfully reintroducedthe blue and gold macaw back into the wild in Trinidad. ... Read more