I saw a comment the other day that really struck me. Someone said that because they didn't teach their bird to fly as a baby, that it would simply never be able to learn. I don't want anyone believing that about their birds that didn't learn to fly at the fledging age. Yes, a bird learning to fly as a baby is ideal, it's how nature intended, HO...
If you have macaws or have spent time around them, you have no doubt experienced the blush. Sometimes it presents itself as just a bit of pinkness around the nares and sometimes the entire face becomes almost alarmingly red.
The blush is caused by the same thing that makes people blush. In response to certain stimuli (excitement or stress), t...
Jealousy among parrots can usually result in two very different outcomes:
Aggression towards one another.
MOTIVATION!
I've experienced both, and there's a fine line you have to be sure not to cross to keep in the "motivation" side of things and be able to USE that jealousy to your training advantage.
In my last post I showed you a real tra...
My male galah Bandit already says "baby boy" but he says it whenever he feels like it, not whenever I want him to. So I decided it was the next phrase of his I wanted to put on cue!
He currently says the following on cue already:
Cue: Waving of my fingers // Word: Bandit
Cue: Word "kiss" // Action: Leaning in, giving a kiss on the cheek with t...
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