Bird Talk
Encyclopedia
Bird Talk is a monthly magazine
for bird
owners and enthusiasts published by BowTie Inc. Each issue has articles which are generally focused around a specific topic, as well as several regular features. The topics vary from bird care, training, behavior, and health to discussion of new products and bird food
recipes or raising a colony of mealworm
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sponsored the contest and Avian Fashions was the dance-off Official Outfitters.
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
for bird
Bird
Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...
owners and enthusiasts published by BowTie Inc. Each issue has articles which are generally focused around a specific topic, as well as several regular features. The topics vary from bird care, training, behavior, and health to discussion of new products and bird food
Bird food
Bird food is food eaten by birds. Humans generally make or buy bird food to feed to pet birds or use in birdfeeders. Birdfood can be natural or commercial...
recipes or raising a colony of mealworm
Mealworm
Mealworms are the larval form of the mealworm beetle, Tenebrio molitor, a species of darkling beetle. Like all holometabolic insects, they go through four life stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult...
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Overview
Thomas A. Bell published the first issue of Bird Talk magazine in 1982. The fledgling magazine experienced publishing issues which forced its sale. The publisher offered Bird Talk magazine to Fancy Publications, a small publishing company, which also published Dog Fancy, Cat Fancy and Horse Fancy magazines. Under Fancy Publications, Bird Talk was redesigned and published, in April 1984, with a new focus to provide bird care information to pet bird owners. The redesigned issued introduced new columns including Watch the Birdie and Causes and Cures. Its motto is Dedicated To Better Care For Pet Birds. The current editor Laura Doering, has worked for Bird Talk since 1998. In November 2006, Bird Talk launched their website BirdChannel.com. One of Bird Talks recent features interactive contests was the World's First Bird Dance-Off, where bird owners sent in videos of their birds dancing and BirdChannel.com visitors voted on the Top Bird Dancer. ZuPreemZuPreem
ZuPreem is a brand of Premium Nutritional Products, Inc., which manufactures and sells animal feeds, particularly for zoo animals and exotic pets.- History :...
sponsored the contest and Avian Fashions was the dance-off Official Outfitters.