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From: ooblick@intercon.com (Mikki Barry)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Cockatiel feather picking
Message-ID: <26BF7F01.15BF@intercon.com>
Date: 8 Aug 90 02:54:56 GMT
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In article <1990Aug7.185758.14290@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> plemmons@brain.mth.msu.edu (Steve Plemmons) writes:
>Could someone e-mail me subscription info for Parrot World Magazine?

>P.S.  Is it as good as Bird Talk?  I think that Bird Talk is a goldmine
>of information for the price.

Bird Talk is basically the MacWorld of bird magazines.  It's a general
pet bird magazine that often has good articles, but once in awhile gives
information that is exactly WRONG.  Use your common sense.

Parrot World is the magazine of the National Parrot Association and is
slanted towards aviary owners, breeders, and those with lots of pets
and/or hand feeding babies.  It's quite low quality as far as typeset,
etc., but often has good information.  You can get them at:
	National Parrot Association
	8 No. Hoffman Lane
	Hauppauge, NY  11788.
Parrot World also contains a hotline listing for each state with people
who know their birds.  Try calling the person in your state to ask about
good vets.

Bird World is yet another magazine that is somewhere between Parrot World and
Bird Talk.  It has an Avian Vet. classified section.  Of course, being listed
there only means you have paid the fee, not that you are a good vet as
is attested by one of the listings in the Virginia area of an idiot who
calls himself an avian vet.  You can subscribe to them by calling
1-800-332-6111.

American Cage Bird is another magazine that has an avian vet listing.
It's much smaller than Bird World's and is an ok magazine except for the
caveat that it allows advertisers to write "articles" telling you that
you need to buy their products.  They are at:
	One Glamore Court
	Smithtown, NY  11787

And, of course, there is the AFA Watchbird magazine that you get when
you become a member of the American Federation of Aviculture.  The AFA
is having their yearly convention this week at the Hyatt in Crystal
City, Virginia.  I will be found at the American Bird Company booth
helping them out.  I'm sure they'll have a sign up table there.

Mikki Barry
Natural Intelligence Aviary