While other parrot books usually only cover a selection of parrots and parakeets and subspecies, this opus is the first work on parrots, parakeets and lories to provide both text and illustration on all the 840 members of this extensive, fascinating family of birds. Apart from identification the reader is able to access essential information on their life in the wild, latest status, natural diet and breeding biology as well as their keeping, feeding and breeding in aviculuture - all in a handy and updateable ring-binder format.