From the Editor’s Perch
One Year of Good Bird™
By Barbara Heidenreich
Feature Articles
Introducing…. The S Files
By Lee McGuire and Susan Friedman, Ph.D.
My Bird is Afraid of Everything
By Barbara Heidenreich
Who’s Your New Friend? Introducing New Members of the Family
By Rebecca K. O’Connor
Transporting Your Parrot Safely and Comfortably
By Laura Wade, DVM, Dipl. ABVP (Avian)
The Feather Distribution Project: Protecting Wild Parrots from Home
By Catherine Vine
New to Training? Watch and Learn
By Sid Price
Enriching Parrots with Foraging Branches
By Gay Noeth
Regular Features
Profile of an Animal Lover
Rebecca K. O’Connor
How Did They Train That? Experts Share Their Training Strategies
Training a Cockatoo to Voluntarily Accept a West Nile Vaccination
By Katie Cicora and Jim Nemet need bigger photos
Training your Bird to Stay on your Hand
By Barbara Heidenreich
What Is Your Bird Saying? Learn to Read Bird Body Language
Science for the Bird Brain (A Synopsis of Scientific Papers Related to Avian Medicine)
Hypothesis on Psychogenic Feather Damage Behaviors (FDB)
By Diane Starnes
Your Good Bird! Reader Success Stories
Bartie Learns to Fly
By Emily Heenan
Training? Moi? Surely You Jest!
By Dean Moser
Problem Behavior Leads to Training Success
By Pat Phillips
Changing Sally’s Self Destructive Behavior with Science
By Beverly Penny
Out of the Mouths of Parrots
The Pickles Chronicles
By Georgi Abbot
Test Your Avicultural Knowledge
By John Del Rio
Pick the Principle? Positive Reinforcement, Negative Reinforcement or Punishment?
By Barbara Heidenreich and Susan Friedman, PhD
Pickin’ Parrots
Your Bird’s Secret Hide Out
By Cheryl Rose
Conference, Event Reviews and Press Releases
Upcoming Events and Seminars
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