If you want a happier, healthier, longer-lived pet bird, you want real help and real experiences from real people. Here, in one convenient package, you'll get 28 of my most popular previously published articles from Bird Talk and Birds USA, including 8 different surveys of more than 200 pet bird owners eager to share their top tips for a successful relationship with their parrots, conures, budgies, cockatiels, canaries, Pekin robins, and more. You can feed, clean, house, amuse, and even understand your bird better. Let me show you how.

Here are some of the key topics we'll cover:

The 10 Best Things You Can Do For Your Bird -- suggested by a survey of real bird owners

My popular birds & music series -- use music to thrill, calm, and amuse birds of any species

Better diets for birds who love food-- help you seed addict eat better, when and how to offer a low fat diet, treats birds should & shouldn't eat, the secrets of great sprouts and greens for vitamin K, and much more

Birds you may not considered -- Pekin robins and the perky mid-sized parrots

Bathe your bird -- keeping it clean without stress

Fun with birds -- vacation time, 30 ways to amuse a parrot, the free-flight time debate

Safety -- when a bird escapes, your home's 5 worst danger spots, & much more

Bird behavior secrets -- why birds act bratty, how birds feel love, how to keep your songbirds singing

Although the original articles were published through the 1980s and 1990s, they have each been carefully updated for the 21st century.