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<br/>Birds have been an important part of <b>Julie Rach Mancini</b>’s life ever since her father built a window shelf to feed pigeons as mealtime entertainment for her when she was a toddler. Her parents got her first bird, a parakeet named Charlie, when she was six, and she kept a special African grey parrot named Sindbad for more than ten years. Professionally, her interest in birds began to combine with her love of writing when the editors of <i>Pet Health News</i> asked her to write about bird health in 1988. She assisted in the preparation of the first issue of <i>Birds USA</i>, a successful annual publication aimed at the first-time pet bird owner, and became managing editor, then editor, of <i>Bird Talk</i> in 1992. Julie has been a freelance writer since 1997, with pets as her primary focus.
<br/>Birds have been an important part of <b>Julie Rach Mancini</b>’s life ever since her father built a window shelf to feed pigeons as mealtime entertainment for her when she was a toddler. Her parents got her first bird, a parakeet named Charlie, when she was six, and she kept a special African grey parrot named Sindbad for more than ten years. Professionally, her interest in birds began to combine with her love of writing when the editors of <i>Pet Health News</i> asked her to write about bird health in 1988. She assisted in the preparation of the first issue of <i>Birds USA</i>, a successful annual publication aimed at the first-time pet bird owner, and became managing editor, then editor, of <i>Bird Talk</i> in 1992. Julie has been a freelance writer since 1997, with pets as her primary focus.