Black Cockatoos as Pet and Aviary Birds

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This title, featuring 300 colour photographs over 160 pages, is available in hard and soft cover. Chapters on Black Cockatoos in Captivity include Taxonomy, Conservation, Housing, Nestlogs, Feeding, Breeding, Infertility, Nest Inspection, Artificial Incubation, Handrearing, Companion Birds and Diseases and Disorders. The individual species section features all the black cockatoo species and subspecies of the genus Calyptorhynchus, the Palm Cockatoo Probosciger aterrimus and the Gang Gang Cockatoo Callocephalon fimbraitum.

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Neville and Noddy Connors experiences with black cockatoos span over two and a half decades. They maintain one of Australia's major parrot collections named Casuarina Parrot Gardens.