Special issue bird keeping and breeding

Special issue Bird keeping and breeding

The big special issue on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the trade journal Gefiederte Welt offers an overview of practical bird keeping and bird breeding of relevant species: parrots, finches, European birds, exotic soft and grain-eating birds, pigeons, canaries, birds of prey, chicken birds and waterfowl. Specialist articles on nutrition, veterinary medicine and aviaries round off this comprehensive edition.

A practical aid not only for beginners, but also for advanced readers, who get a unique and at the same time up-to-date, cross-species view of the subject. 

An edition to be picked up several times and a valuable read for many years to come. A reading pleasure for all bird lovers with the following specialist articles:

- Parakeets and Parrots - Basic Information on Keeping by Jörg Ehlenbröker

- From Common Canaries to Song, Posture and Colour Canaries by Olaf Hungenberg

- Asian Bullfinches - Rarities in our Aviaries by Horst Mayer

- African Glossy Starlings - Husbandry and Interim Balance after Five Years by Werner Lantermann

- Turacos and Go-Away Birds - Practical experience with interesting aviary inhabitants by Rainer Berenz

- European insectivores - keeping and care using the example of the wren by Thomas Wendt

- Keeping chicken birds - a guide by Heiner Jacken and Hubert Jütten

- Fruit Doves of the genus Ptilinopus and the European Fruit Dove Project by Jens Riebe

- Grey-fronted Doves - long kept under a false name by Marc Ovelgönne

- Exotic wild pigeons in fashion - general information on keeping and breeding by Marc Ovelgönne

- Charadriiforms - a biotope aviary is recommended for keeping and breeding by Dirk Wolniewicz and Matthias Hakemeyer

- Scoters and mergansers - associated with husbandry challenges by Dirk Wolniewicz and Matthias Hakemeyer

- Husbandry and reproduction of Harris's Hawks in private husbandry and zoological institutions by Dr. med. vet. Dominik Fischer

- Keeping cranes successfully - a large enclosure is a prerequisite by Matthias Hakemeyer

- Evolution in action: Lonchura species in Papua New Guinea, Australia and surrounding islands by Prof. Dr. Sven Cichon

- Health management in bird keeping - the basics of a healthy flock by Matthias Hakemeyer

- The Schama - Symbol Bird of the Feathered World by Dietmar Schmidt

- Keeping and feeding ostriches in Germany by Prof. Dr. Petra Wolf

- Can bird photography benefit science - e.g. in the context of citizen science? by Jörg Asmus

Language: German