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NEW hardcover book. Quick shipping from USA to lower 48 U.S. states. No International shipping please.This is a 2026 hardback (516 pages, 716 photographs, roughly 5 lbs.) and is the third volume in Silva’s in Field and Aviary series after Macaws and Amazon Parrots, also available.
Over the last 40+ years Silva kept or cared for every cockatoo species and bred all but three. Where his own experience stops, the book cites other keepers and field observers by name and date. The book contains:
Species accounts with a color-coded distribution map for every subspecies plus a data panel (length, weight, egg size, clutch size, incubation period, CITES status). These are followed by synonyms, type locality, etymology, diagnostic features, and sources.
Documented breedings by country and by named breeder, with years and numbers of young.
Hand-rearing: a dedicated chapter plus, in the species accounts, hourly feeding schedules and day-by-day chick weight tables from hatch to weaning.
Housing: aviary types and dimensions, suspended enclosures, nest-log sizes and hanging angles, substrates, and how to site aviaries so neighboring pairs do not interfere.
Diet: pellets vs. fresh food, calcium, which vegetables/greens and nuts suit which species, and feeding timing.
Mutations with inheritance (including a detailed list for the Galah/rose-breasted cockatoo).
Legband sizes by species.
The cockatiel has its own full account.
Photos are from actual aviaries and nests. The cockatiel is treated as a cockatoo, as taxonomy requires. 
Fairly priced and ready to ship from the USA.
