The New Softbill HandbookThe New Softbill Handbook Werner Steinigeweg Everything about care, feeding, illnesses and breeding. With a special chapter on understanding behaviour and descriptions of popular species. With thirty colour photographs by eminent photographers, and thirty drawings by Gertrud Thomas. Paperback, published 1988, rare, fair condition

'Soft-Billed Birds brings the reader the author's long and successful experience with keeping fruit- and insect-eating birds of many kinds in cage and aviary

Ca-D-pantothenat

vitamins and minerals for a good and efficient growth and development

these will colour much better and will not be inferior to their peers in nature

This book is based on a lifetime's experience of the aviculturalist Colin Vince who in the 1970s founded the Tropical Birds Company

Grass seed

It is particularly useful where fresh nectar cannot be supplied daily and this product – supplied neat or mixed with water – will enable your birds to thrive

After continual requests Jonathan Stephenson invited Dajo Wielens to formulate a specific Nectar for Lorikeets

saddle-bill storks

Fruit Doves

published 1999 by The Parrot Society UK

We also feed it to our Swift Parrots and Lorikeets