Gouldian Finches: Everything About Purchase, Housing, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, and Diseases [Paperback]

Matthew M. Vriends (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 15, 1991

Here's advice and valuable information from a renowned American bird expert on all aspects of feeding, housing, health care, and keeping a happy and healthy Gouldian Finch. Approximately 30 full-color photos and line drawings.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series (February 15, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812045238
• ISBN-13: 978-0812045239
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 6.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #709,389 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good to buy book!!, November 4, 2000

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pascal haddad (hazmieh Lebanon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gouldian Finches: Everything About Purchase, Housing, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, and Diseases (Paperback)

I found this book very interesting, and providing helpfull information for the average finch keeper. I have been raising and breeding exclusively gouldians for about 13 years now, so I find the genetics section in this book (though not VERY elaborate) of primordial importance. I also liked the vivid description of the nuptial dance, the sound and chirps etc... as well as the pictures. So, if to say, on a scale of ten, 1 being a very silly book and 10 an extensive genetical analyisis and nutritional guide for expert breeders, I give this book a well-earned 7.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Place To Begin, July 2, 2000

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J. J. Edwards-davis "jildavis" (Magnetic Island, Queensland Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gouldian Finches: Everything About Purchase, Housing, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, and Diseases (Paperback)

This book is one of a series of pet books which do actually tell you most of what you need to know if you want to keep the pets concerned.

For once, I did things the right way round and bought the book BEFORE the birds, and as a result I have learned a number of tips which I hope will make my keeping of these beautiful birds more successful.

The photos are excellent but I query whether the average finch keeper would need quite so much detail on finch genetics - and am left amazed that breeders seem to be going to such lengths to breed all colour out of a finch whose chief attraction, to me at any rate, is its bright plumage!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, February 13, 2006

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Jonathan Kopke (Cincinnati, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gouldian Finches: Everything About Purchase, Housing, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, and Diseases (Paperback)

If you've already studied all of the Gouldian Finch information on the Web, and now you're looking for a resource that will be more comprehensive and authoritative, then this is NOT the book for you. A simple Google search will easily unearth more information, and the Gouldians you will read about on the Web are far more robust than the seemingly suicidal birds described in this little volume. In fairness to the author, I'll add that this book was published in 1991, and much of the information on the Web was probably extrapolated from this author's pioneering work.

A more petty grievance about this book is that the author deserved better editing by his publisher. Someone should have renovated all of the awkward sentences, the possessives without apostrophes, and the outright errors, such as where we're instructed to PALPITATE (instead of PALPATE) a bird's belly.