The Healthy Bird Cookbook: A Lifesaving Nutritional Guide and Recipe Collection

The Healthy Bird Cookbook: A Lifesaving Nutritional Guide and Recipe Collection is the perfect solution to all of your bird's nutritional needs. It provides 150 creative, healthy, and easy-to-make recipes that are appropriate for almost all species of pet birds. The book also offers a thorough, extensive section on avian nutrition that clearly explains the roles of pellets and seeds, the food groups, vitamins, minerals, and amino acids in your bird's diet. You can take comfort in the quality and nutritional value of these original recipes---the author is an avian expert who spent ten years consulting with veterinarians and doing hands-on research to compose them.

The Healthy Bird Cookbook features: ---150 recipes that are easy to make and healthy ---Illustrations of many of the delicious dishes included ---A thorough nutritional guide, including sections on special diets, specific nutritional needs, and foods to avoid ---Helpful hints, cooking tips, and safety suggestions throughout ---Many recipes that are great for people, too!

Robin Deutsch is a bird trainer who has been cooking for birds for more than 25 years. She was initially inspired by a veterinarian who advocated balanced meals instead of an all-seed diet for parrots. Her articles on bird training have appeared in Bird Talk magazine and the Pet Bird Report. She lives in Yelm, Washington, with her husband, Stephen; two children; and an assortment of parrots.