If you're interested in bettering your relationship with your bird, trick training is an ideal method to do so! Check out my elite trick training course, it's shows how to train a bird with UNTRAINED birds learning for the first time ever. The more tricks you teach, the easier your bird learns. In the above video you will see me teaching my b...

Hormones are very apparent in our pet parrots in the spring and the fall, and it's not usually fun for anyone. If you need help dealing with your parrot's hormones; determining the triggers, etc... check out our Hormones Course. In the meantime while you wait for that course to download, you can watch the above video and see some characteristi...

The majestic macaw Without a doubt, the macaw is one of the most beautiful animals to inhabit our planet. From the striking blue of the hyacinth, to the vibrant red of the scarlet, to the rich green of the military, they bring to us nearly every color of the rainbow.Who wouldn’t want to share their life with a creature so stunning it makes yo...

I Can't Believe Jinx Taught Morgan THIS!  I am MOST excited about this video footage because it demonstrates observational learning better than I've ever been able to capture before. To actually see it in its entirety - is pretty amazing and powerful. Jinx only had ONE training session before this session (his second). So it's pretty amazing ho...

Something I want to point out that I feel is really cool, is that I started intentionally working on teaching Morgan, a 7 year old camelot macaw, to be BRAVE through desensitization training.  Literally, I just posted about it in a previous blog post here.  The next thing that happened? Morgan got brave enough to not only make her first flight...

This session is definitely the one I've been waiting for.  We were having incredibly long training sessions due to the amount of time it was taking to get Morgan to step OFF of Patty. Why was this becoming a trouble area? Inconsistency = unclear communication.  Patty was constantly inconsistent with the step off. Examples: Sometimes a...