This was super! Thanks for all you share. I will use this with several people who are having difficulty or are just learning!

I Bought some of YouR videoes – and I am hooked.. So today I ordered the organic pellets.. And I have to wait till there’s more money in the bank before I buy YouR Cook book. The first video I watched was an eyeopener deluxe, Cus it told me how much my parrot needs to be fed. My Billie had a ton of seeds in her cage, which I promptly reduced to a spoonfull.. Her breeder have all his Birds on seeds and nuts and only some bits of apple ad their only fruit n greens. Till I have the pellets, she gets Whitters I serve outside the cage, I Cook organic bulgur, barley seeds, White beans, red lentels and add finely chopped herbs. I add fresh fruit to that. blueberries, physalis, dates are among her favorites. Dandylions too – especially the dandylionroot…. I have had her for a month now and she will eat or try every thing I give her. My whish is to have my lovebird Dolly eat just as healthy as Billie (Senegal parrot baby girl neeJan 30th.) I have just started touch training with Billie and she gets it!!!! She is so timid and scared of most things, So I am going to take my time to Get it Right. If my hands ain’t holding food, they are avoided like the plague. LoL.

My yellow nape, who raised from a baby, is now 30. He is a total delight and I love him more then words can say. He is a joy to have, easy to handle and loved by all. As life happens and as you can well imagine, I have gone through many phases with him. I have all your trick training tapes and he certainly has is repertoire (wave, batman, tough bird, etc.). But I wanted lots more and started working on the retrieve. I did it exactly wrong and over trained. You are SOOO right about 2-5 min max! It has been over 2 years since I tried any serious training. I’d really like to slooooowly add to his trick base. I’m thinking I need to either start the “new” training sessions in an entirely new environment or figure out a behavior to capture rather then do any direct training. Any suggestions??? Also, it is a joy to see your precious little girl. I really enjoy seeing her! Thanks for sharing so much with us.

Hello, I received my one day miracles. April 16th I love love love it. I have 2 parakeets, 1 cockatiel, and a GW macaw, I got them all 2 weeks apart. At first I wanted to get a Cockatoo. But the pet store doesn’t sell them. :0( Anyway on the way to see what they had my husband ask me if I felt that it is right to buy a bird and put them in a cage. My first responds to him was, wouldn’t you rather have us buy one and love it then to someone else who wouldn’t take care of it. When we got to the store and there was only 1 cockatiel and he keep looking at all the parakeets. I guess my words keep repeating in his head. That day we left with 1 cocktail and 2 parakeets ;0) . Two weeks later we went to a bird store and he wasn’t going to tell me that he wanted to get me a cockatoo. (I guess he seen how quick I trained the biting nasty cockatiel to give kisses and step up. By the way -> which I learned on your youtube videos) ;0) there were no Cockatoos. As we walked around the store he see this GW macaw. He looked like a little boy at christmas time seeing his nice shiny new red bike he has asked for. Well guess what the macaw Riptide is our new baby. That smile was priceless. so when we got home I joined your newsletter and now he wasn’t into teaching birdtricks. LOL but I talked him into letting me get your one day miracles. He was amazed how quick Riptide was learning new things. Not to mention the other 3 birds.We took Riptide back to get his/her nails clipped and one of the ladies told us that Riptide love to nip and bite at people in the store. I said I was clicker training. She just couldn’t believe how good she was behaving. I also used it on a neighbor’s cocktail. They were also amazed how much their cocktail learned in one day. THANK YOU :0) We also have a older dog and 2 cats 6 years old. Now that you know our back ground. My 4 questions…Question 1) should I get my cockatoo while Riptide (which just turned 1 year a few weeks go) is still young and new or do I wait. I am just afraid Riptide might get too attached and if and when we bring another bird into the house there might be some jealousy. Question 2) which bird is better and would get along with our GW macaw? rose breast cockatoo or Umbrella Cockatoo. Question 3) Should we get Riptides DNA to see if it is a boy or girl. I know they have different behaviors. Does it matter? Question 4) When and if we get a Cockatoo should the GW be the same sex or doesn’t matter? Sorry this is so long and my 2 Questions turned into 4. Thank you in advance.

Really enjoying the short vignettes. Gleaning a lot of ideas and refreshers. Thanks for the comment about leaving birds in cages. I feel better now leaving the kids in cages. When we only had one macaw she had the run of the house, when we got two more, they got into too much mischief . We now keep all three macaw’s in their separate cages during the day. When we’re home, they’re out, (they still get into trouble when together..lol) but my husband and I still feel guilty about leaving them in cages during the day. I do try to vary the toys (use your toy of the month club) also tie branches on top (outside) of cages w/wooden clothes pins hidden amongst the leaves but so they can reach thru and still grab- (though they find them as fast as I clip them) but glad of your comment and it makes sense when related to training.

just a quick question ..are you guys going to do a screaming when you walk out of the room tip ?

Do you actually do the training in person and then show me how to do it? I need hands on training and not just your books? If so, how much? Thank you! Jd

What you guys are doing for the bird community is just great. A lot of people do not have the money to hire a professional trainer and the way you present the video’s and answering all the questions is just way to cool. I am sure it has made a big difference the way people can interact with their birds. Hopefully keeping some of them out of rescues. Thank you so much. I hope you keep up the bird trick Tuesday’s I look forward to watching it every week. Thanks

Love the video – especially those little ‘WOW’ interjections from your daughter. Lol. The video answered some questions I had and hadn’t asked yet like ’ how do I get my parrot to wave?’ Because my bird when she steps up uses her beak first so pulling my hand away last minute was not going to further our trusting bond. Hahaha My question today is re: the shower. Charlie ( my green checked female conure) baths herself regularly in her bowl but when I’m doing dishes or having a shower she gets really excited and wants me to bath her. The only way she lets me bath her is if she sits in my hands which I love. ;) but I’ve always wondered what temp the water should be? Especially when I’ve read that others let their birds shower with them?? Right now I use lukewarm because it’s not too cold for my hands but not hot for her. Thanks again for your videos Lynn

This video was great. Your daughter is adorable and the clips of your show were an awesome treat too! I know you mentioned covering a video of screaming, but I was wondering if you could also cover talking in that. I feel like you would you the clicker to help your bird repeat a word, but what is the best method to teach them a word? I have see that you guys use other bird talking to teach, but I feel like when I do that with my Amazon he freaks out and starts screaming. Any suggestions on how to handle this?

lol idk why but after I sent the comment the video loaded Hahahahahahahahahaha. Weird!!!

The video would not upload for me ????

Thank You so much for the awesome videos on Tuesdays. I’ve learned so much in a couple weeks. I especially liked the example of getting your bird on to the new surface(box) with target training. My bird Grady is so much more friendly now that he has learned to target with your help. Do you have any tips for getting my budgie, Lucky, to step up? He will fly over to my finger and perch there, but will not come on to my finger if held close to him, strange.

Enjoyed your video. I would like to train my blue front amazon to allow me to trim its nails. Any thoughts on how to start?

We are bring home a 1 year old scarlet macaw and what is the first step to clicker training. Is it simply click and treat? I just found your site and I am so grateful I did. Also how do you decide to keep flighted or cut flight wings? Just want to make the safest choice for our new Fid.

I have really been enjoying the Birdtricks Tuesday! There is always something new that I am learning and reinforcing my behavior as in training. I have been trying to get my bird used to a vet visit (she had something in her eye and it had to be removed), but through that process I saw how misbehaved she is. I think most of it was that she was scared as she was in an unfamiliar place, but the first step I am working on is getting her used to a syringe and stationing to one place. This video was great to go back to the basics of touch training her with the syringe! Thanks!!

This video is great. I have used a lot of your videos to help me with my green cheek Conure. I’ve had to stop using the clicker though as I get bitten when holding stuff, but never with the touch training stick, so I’m working on this. I’m looking forward to your next video as I have used your techniques to achieve my recall so my Conure flies to me when I ask him and I can send him back to his Perch. This was all done using touch training and clicker training so the next video will be very interesting to see if I’ve done it right. Thank you for your videos.

The expanded description and demonstration with clicker training has greatly helped in better understanding the practical elements of using a clicker that I had not fully picked up on in earlier Bird Tricks videos and DVD’s.

Always keep them flighted. It’s best for their health, behavior and well being.

Thanks so much for making this video! I’m sure it will help me tons. Capri is just to cute! I love how calm she is with the birds. I am very grateful for all the things you cover in your videos. I have a question. I have a cockatiel and he is not afraid of the clicker or the stick, but every time he sees my hand he flys away. I tried to target him on my hand in the cage. It was going good till he saw my hand and hissed and raw away. You and Dave or Dave and you (who ever is reading this) are awesome. I can’t wait to watch the video next week! Once again, thank you for making the videos.

Love Birdtricks and your dedication to help us be better to our parrots!!!!

My wife and I have over the last 3 years compiled a collection of birds and are now at the point of trying to get control of the flock. The birds are generally well behaved, well behaved if you consider a bite now and then not to mention a few undesirable words at the wrong times from the gray one. We have 12 birds, a 5 year old male gray, a 5 month old Female Yellow nape amazon, A 5 month old Illegret Macaw (mini macaw), a not quite 2 year old female ringneck, a 3 year old femaole green check conure, a not sure how old male red breasted conure, a female love bird and two pairs of Parrotettes. I am looking to train most of them and am looking for tips of hints because of not only the range in type of birds but also their ages and temperments. I have started to clicker train the larger birds with a little success, The grey seems to be the most recepative, after only one session he knows the click but he has never let me approach him and other than presenting a treat he doesn’t think much about me approaching him, The amazon is my baby, she at this point could care less about a clicker and is always looking for a treat. the last session with her lasted about one minute, When I clicked the first time she looked down at my hand for a treat. She takes a very long time to eat even the smallest piece of a almond and rarely has any interest after that long break. All but 3 of the birds were raised by us (only two actually hand feed by us) the other three were re-homers. One of the re-homers is the Gray which belonged to my daughter which moved back into our house with the bird, lived there with us for a year and remained when my daughter moved back out. A shove in the right directions is what we are looking for, a recommendation on video’s or what ever else might be helpful.