I've talked about this before, because it comes into play every single time we flight train a bird for outdoors. But the last time I really talked about it was years ago regarding an older Moluccan cockatoo, read the article here. I've never ever met a parrot owner that we haven't had to drill this lesson into. It's normal. It's hard for us, as...

Photo by Dave Location: Bothell, WA Special Needs Aviary with Roger I’d never been to a parrot rescue before that I felt the need to donate to until I went to Zazu’s House Parrot Sanctuary in the state of Washington. Someone had written on the birdtricks facebook about us needing to check it out and I didn’t really give it much thought other ...

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Florence, SC Shown: Banana pieces on top of the aviaries I was trying to pick out certain pictures this week and having a really hard time figuring out if I really liked what I was looking at. My birds were making a lot of racket, and I was getting annoyed and feeling like just giving up on my project because I co...

Photo by Dave Location: West Palm Beach, FL Flying free: Wild parrots of Florida During my week long stay in West Palm Beach, Florida I got the honor of seeing these beautiful wild parrots in the area. As I was used to the local wild birds of the area, one night as the sun was going down I heard something different. Dave actually noticed it b...

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Musha Cay, Bahamas Pictured: Blue and gold macaws "Jersey" & "Chayko"  My friend Rosie, who is just 12 years old, has recently had a big interest in birds. She loves being around mine, and always asks if she can help clean cages (heck yeah!) and be there when we fly them in the arenas in every city before loa...

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Erie, PA Showering: Blue throated macaw "Jinx", Camelot macaws "Comet" & "Tusa" Sometimes you have to make showering a game in order to get your bird to do it. This is how my mom initially got my galah, Bondi, to shower. She would play the "sink game" with her where she'd run the faucet and Bondi would get sp...