Normally my female galah, Bondi, is the best at everything out of our entire flock. But man, this hula hoop flight training is not her favorite thing in the world...
She was doing really great for a while, as you can see in the video below:
But the further I got back from the hoop, the more likely she was to land on the actual hoop. So I w...
Photo by Dave Location: Orlando, FL Eating pasta: Hyacinth "Hymie"
I had company for 10 days this month and it was sort of... crazy. Fitting in time for Hymie was harder in those ten days but I did have some great progress. I got him to eat three new foods! They are:
Plain penne pasta
Oatmeal
Creamed corn
I was eating oatmeal one mo...
I don't quite think people understand what it means to respect your bird, but it is so so so so SO so so... important. Honestly, if you simply show your bird some respect, he will respect you right back and start to like you.
To prove this, I am going to show you a video of Dave and a Hyacinth Macaw (the same one we decided to take on for 6 wee...
Photo by Dave Location: Sagle, ID In photo: African Grey "Cressi", Galahs "Bondi" & "Bandit"
This morning I went to work and found an email from Greg Frewin, a client we trained two blue and gold macaws for (Merlin and Mika) wondering if Aves Internationl parrot website was mine because my photos were all over it. Guess what? Apparently ...
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 ...
Recently Dave joined me this month in trick training and just overall training our parrots new things... and one of the ideas he had was training them all to fly through hoops! So we got home hula hoops from our local Walgreens and started the training immediately.
Dave had already trained Tiko, his brother's blue and gold macaw, how to do t...
