Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Orlando, FL Pictured: 3 Budgies I'm a stickler about weighing my own birds anytime I have them out and a scale is nearby. I have charts devoted to recording their weights. And most of my birds weights are memorized based on their "stuffed full" weight and working weights. Then they all have an average weight when...

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Orlando, FL Shown: Triple bird cage Not only should you be changing your bird's bottom of the cage (liner/newspaper) at LEAST once a week, but actually washing down your bird's cage is just as important. If your cage fits through your doorways, simply wheeling it outside for a nice power wash is key. If it is to...

Photo by Dave Location: Orlando, FL Flying: Hyacinth "Hymie" It has been getting easier and easier to ask Hymie to fly and here's why: When he was younger, he used to fly around his owner's house with a green wing macaw in tow. So he has had experience flying before and enjoyed it enough to want to experience it again. I've been spending ...

Photo by Dave Location: Orlando, FL Shown: African Grey "Cressi", Galah "Bandit", Camelot Macaws "Tusa" & "Comet" & Blue Throat Macaw "Jinx"   I was out at Blue Jacket Park in Orlando, Florida (like I have been so much recently) and it was actually on Valentine's Day because I was out there freeflying my parrots. Well, this lady came ...

I'm a HUGE believer in working with your bird's NATURAL capabilities and habits. For instance, my cockatoo "Bondi" is most talkative in the car above other places. So, since we were on a road trip from Washington to Arizona, I thought I'd use that to my advantage and grabbed my training bag with me up front. Now, she is mostly talkative with D...

I talk about desensitizing your bird pretty often with different things like dropping books or introducing a new toy, it can be something simple or something really odd (like a giant piñata!)   The purpose of desensitization is to get your bird use to as many different things as possible as a way to reduce the impact of change so it doesn't caus...