Pet Bird Care

Bird Talk is a magazine for bird owners and enthusiasts. Each issue has articles which are generally focused around a specific topic, as well as several regular features. The topics vary from bird care, training, behavior, and health to discussion of new products and bird-friendly bird food recipes.

The December 2007 issue of Bird Talk magazine was its 25th year anniversary of publishing articles on the latest bird care information for pet bird owners. Thomas A. Bell published the first issue of Bird Talk magazine in 1982. As a startup magazine it soon faced going under due to usual publishing issues. The publisher offered Bird Talk magazine to Fancy Publications, a small publishing company, which also published Dog Fancy, Cat Fancy and Horse Fancy magazine. Under Fancy Publications, Bird Talk magazine was redesigned and published, in April 1984, with a new focus to provide bird care information to pet bird owners. The redesigned issued introduced new columns including the popular “Watch the Birdie” and “Causes and Cures.” Its motto is "Dedicated To Better Care For Pet Birds". The current editor Laura Doering, has worked for Bird Talk since 1998. In November 2006, Bird Talk launched their website BirdChannel.com. One of Bird Talk' s recent features interactive contests was the World's First Bird Dance-Off, where bird owners sent in videos of their birds dancing and BirdChannel.com visitors voted on the Top Bird Dancer. Zupreem sponsored the contest and Avian Fashions was the dance-off Official Outfitters.

2008 Bird Talk issues

• January 2008

Special Diet & Fitness Issue. Cover Bird: Amazon parrot - double yellow-headed Amazon parrot Cover Articles: Remembering Alex, Plus Alex Memorial Poster - By Leigh Ann Hartfield. BIRD TALK'S 2008 Guide To Exercise Products

• February 2008

Cover Bird: Parrotlet - blue mutation and green Pacific parrotlets. Cover Articles: He Said, She Said - By Liz Wilson, CVT, CPBC. Light Up Their Life - 5 ways to bring light to your bird.

• March 2008

Special Travel Issue. Cover Bird: Caique - white-bellied caique. Cover Articles: Get The Lead (& Zinc) Out - By Rose Gordon. 10 Steps To A Calm(er) Bird - By Rebecca K. O'Connor.

• April 2008

Special New Bird Issue. Cover Bird: Cockatiel - cinnamon-mutation cockatiel. Cover Articles: Set For Life, What you teach your parrot makes all the difference - By Rebecca K. O'Connor. Why Your Bird Needs To Relax - By Margaret A. Wissman, DVM, DABVP - Avian Practice.

• May 2008

Cover Bird: Conure - yellow-sided green-cheeked conure. Cover Articles: Sending The Wrong Signals? How you pet can send signals to your bird that you never imagined - By Mattie Sue Athan. Aspergillosis Hits Home, This deadly fungal infection grips the lives of a parrot and owner - By Katrina Coleman.

• June 2008

Special Cleaning Issue. Cover Bird: Cockatoo - Citron cockatoo. Cover Articles: Snowball Gets Funky, You've seen him rock out, now get to know the dancing bird sensation - Interviewed By Crystal Apilado. Clearing The Air, The truths & myths behind bird keeper's lung - By Margaret A. Wissman, DVM, DABVP - Avian Practice.

• July 2008

Cover Bird: Macaw (blue-and-gold macaw). Cover Articles: Bad For You, Bad For Them, Protect your bird from yourown bad habits - By Dr. Barbara Nefer. Chasing A Cure: Proventricularn Dilatiation Disease, Researchers grapple with this devastatingwasting condition - A Special Report By the Psittacine Disease Research Group.

• August 2008

Cover Bird: Quaker parrot. Cover Articles: Defuse The Bite - By Sally Blanchard. Faces Of PBFD, The Survivor - By Patricia Sund.

• September 2008

Cover Bird: Love Bird (blue mutation black-masked lovebird). Cover Articles: Whose House Is It Anyway? Have a nonparrot person in your house? Here's how to keep the peace - By Liz Wilson, CVT, CPBC. We Asked The Experts, Five avian experts share their philosophies on feather picking.

• October 2008

Cover Bird: African grey parrot. Cover Articles: Lories Make Us Rethink "Parrot," from diet, downtime & droppings, lories are atypical - By Margrethe Warden. The Untouchable, Connect with a bird that wants nothing to do with you - By Mattie Sue Athan.

• November 2008

Special Home Issue. Cover Bird: Pionus (Maximilian's Pionus ). Cover Articles: Think Your Bird Hates You?, Relax & reconnect with your bird - By Sally Blanchard. Bird Talk’s 2008 Holiday Gift Guide.

• December 2008

Cover Bird: Poicephalus (Meyer's parrot). Cover Articles: The Tipping Point, When does one more pet become too many? - By Melissa L. Kauffman. Winter Health Care, Help your bird weather the winter months - By Margaret A. Wissman, DVM, DABVP - Avian Practice.

References

1. ^ BowTie, Inc. (April 10, 2008). "BirdChannel.com Announces 'The World's First Bird Dance-Off'". Press release . http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS256345+10-Apr-2008+PRN20080410 . Retrieved 2008-07-22 .  

• About BirdChannel.com
• History of BIRD TALK Magazine
• The World's First Bird Dance-Off

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