title: The Ultimate Bird Lover: Stories and Advice on Our Feathered Friends at Home and in the Wild
author: Marty D.V.M.
description: <strong>Marty Becker, D.V.M., </strong>is the regularly featured veterinarian on ABC-TV's <em>Good Morning America, </em>resident veteran on <em>The Dr. Oz Show</em>, contributing pet-care writer for <i>Parade</i> magazine, and the host of <em>The Pet Doctor</em> on PBS<em>.</em> He also coauthors <em>PetConnection</em>, the award-winning weekly column on pets and their care which appears in newspapers across the United States and Canada through the Universal Press Syndicate.
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  Copyright © 2019 by Steve Curry
  
  
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