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Part One: Aviculture

• Chapter One - Identification and Profiles
  Joanne Abramson

• Chapter Two - Anatomy & Physiology
  Joanne Abramson.
  Illustrated by Marsha Mello with Contributions by Brian L. Speer

• Chapter Three - Chromosomal Analysis
  Marc Valentine

• Chapter Four - Acquisition
  Joanne Abramson

  • Lawrence T. Ring - Breeding Loan Agreements

  • Sally Blanchard - Common Pet Behaviorial Problems: Prevention and Solutions

• Chapter Five - Housing
  Joanne Abramson

• Chapter Six - Nutritional Requirements
  Joanne Abramson

• Chapter Seven - Breeding
  Joanne Abramson

  • Ingrid Davis - Experience with an Egg Destroyer

  • Bob Elgas - Nest Box for Birds That Destroy Eggs

  • Robert R. Gabel and Bob Elgas - Hybrids do not belong in Aviculture

  • Von Kment - Blue throated Macaw: breeding and husbandry

• Chapter Eight - Incubation
  Joanne Abramson
  John Forgách - Parent Raised Hyacinths

• Chapter Nine - Pediatrics
  Joanne Abramson
  Janet Tashjian Hanson - Growth Rates of Macaws

• Chapter Ten - Emergency Evacuation
  Katherine Kay Muser and Michael D. Moll

• Chapter Eleven - Mortality
  Joanne Abramson

  • J. Phillip Angle - Preservation of Bird Mortalities for Shipment to a Museum

  • Bonnie Farmer - Instructions for Blowing Eggs

• Chapter Twelve - Aviculture For Conservation
  Joanne Abramson

  • Laurella Desborough - Aviculture For Conservation

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Part Two: Veterinary Medicine

• Chapter Thirteen - Closed Aviary Concepts
  Brian L. Speer

• Chapter Fourteen - The Normal Macaw
  Brian L. Speer

• Chapter Fifteen - Infectious Diseases
  Brian L. Speer

• Chapter Sixteen - Non-Infectious Diseases
  Brian L. Speer

• Chapter Seventeen - Breeder Medical Management
  Brian L. Speer

• Chapter Eighteen - Pediatric Medical Management
  Brian L. Speer

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Part Three: Conservation

 

• Chapter Nineteen - Conservation: Problems and options in macaw conservation
  Brian L. Speer

  • Charles A. Munn - The Blue-throated Macaw in the Wild

  • Neil Rettig - The Harpy Ealge: An occasional preditor of macaws

  • Robin Bjork and George V.N. Powell - Buffon's Macaw: Some observations on the Costa Rican population, it's lowland forest habitat and conservation

• Chapter Twenty - Hyacinth Macaws in the Pantanal Conservation and management
  Neiva Gerdes and Lee Harper

• Chapter Twenty-One - Nesting success and techniques for increasing reproduction in wild macaws in southwestern Peru
  Eduardo Nycander v.M., Daniel H. Blanco Z., Kurt M. Holle F., Alvaro del Campo, Charles A. Munn, Jose L. Moscoso G., and David G. Ricalde R.

• Chapter Twenty-Two - Scarlet Macaws in Carara - Perspectives for management
  Leonel Marineros and Christopher Vaughan

• Chapter Twenty-Three - The Lear's Macaw - Notes on factors limiting their survival
  Judith K. Hart

• Chapter Twenty-Four - International Trade - Loved to death?
  Teresa A. Mulliken and Jørgen B. Thomsen

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Part Four: Anthropology

• Chapter Twenty-Five - The Sacred Bird -
  The Scarlet Macaw among Puebloan peoples
  Sally Thompson Greiser

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