Cockatoos: Cockatoos in Field and Aviary is the third title in Tony Silva’s in Field and Aviary series, after Macaws and Amazon Parrots, and the first new book we have published in four years.
It runs to 516 pages and 716 photographs. Each species account opens with a distribution map showing every subspecies in its own colour and a panel giving length, weight, egg size, clutch size, incubation period and CITES listing. Then it gets practical: nest log dimensions and hanging angles, legband sizes, hand-feeding schedules by the hour, chick weights day by day from hatching to weaning, mutations with their inheritance, and breedings documented by country and by breeder. The Cockatiel has its own account.
The author first handled a cockatoo in 1976 and decided to write this book in 1982, after a summer watching them in the field in Australia. He finished it forty-three years later, having kept or cared for every species and bred all of them but three.
Two things have changed besides the book. Shipping to the USA and Canada now takes 1 to 2 weeks instead of five to six, and shipping to Australia and New Zealand 1 to 2 weeks instead of eight to nine. And books ordered together travel in one parcel and pay one shipping charge, so several breeders can order together and split it.
Cockatoos is 70 €. The full details are on the book’s page.
We will be at the eleventh International Parrot Convention at Loro Parque in September, and the author will be there too.
Dr. Jan Sojka, publisher