Avian Behaviour, problems and practitioner skills.

PBC418

Topics covered in this course include:

Parrots in nature v captivity
Small to medium birds in nature v captivity
Feeding, Diet and the need for a foraging regime
Food frustration
Aviary and Cage care
Cage frustration
Sound signal training

Species:

Macaws
Africa Grey
Small parrots and Lovebirds
Conures
Lories, Lorikeets and Parakeets
Cockateils and Cockatoos
Canaries, Waxbills and Finches

Aggression:

Directed towards owners
Family, Friends and Strangers
Intraspecific - bird v bird
Towards other home pets

Sexing and disease tests including dna testing

Excessive-vocalisation
Displaced sexual behaviour
Owner attachment
Withdrawn behaviour
Frustration behaviour
Obsessive and compulsive behaviour
Over-preening and Feather-plucking
Destructiveness – in the cage and in the home

Distance Learning Only - NO workshop

Course Tutor: Dr David Sands

Module duration Maximum of one year

Total cost £385.00

The Tutor:

Dr David Sands PhD FCFBA

Dr David Sands is a human-companion animal practitioner at the Animal Behavioural Clinic based at Chorley. He is one of only a handful of behaviourists that has specialised knowledge in the treatment of behavioural problems displayed by tropical parrots.

He is internationally known as an animal-related author and photographer having researched psychology and zoology.

David undertook doctorate in ethology at the Faculty of Science of Liverpool University. He is a Fellow of the Canine and Feline Behaviour Association and a member of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) and scripted videos and written a practical booklet for Croft Cages, ‘Parrots for Pleasure’.

The Cambridge Institute of Pet Behaviour & Care, Applewood House, Ringshall Road, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire HP4 1RN
01442 843187