A Guide to Black Cockatoos as Pet & Aviary Birds

General topics include taxonomy, habitat, distribution in the wild and captive management including housing, feeding and diet, breeding, incubation, handrearing and diets, growth rates, health and diseases, and black cockatoos as pets. Bushfires in Australia have destroyed vast areas of forest which affect nesting and feeding trees for a variety of wildlife including black cockatoos.  Habitat loss for vaious reasons is also an increasing problem.

Individual chapters detail 11 species and subspecies. Chapter on health and diseases is written by an avian veterinarian.