Remember all the ways to bathe your bird from Bathing Your Parrot Properly? Well, I wanted to show you how much parakeets enjoy bathing! I use a lot of different bathing methods due to traveling so much but the one I use when I'm at home is using a spray bottle to mist my parakeets. Here is a video clip I took to show you how I do it and just ho...
Just like people have specific love languages, so do parrots! And we recieve in them all. Sometimes during a little down time you might have, it might be a real treat to enjoy some cuddling time with your birds (or bird). This is a great way to relax with your birds and make a few "deposits" into your bond with your parrot.
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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 ...
Photo by Dave Location: Orlando, FL Lawn Mowing: Galah "Bandit"
Putting natural behaviors on cue is FUN and EASY! You need to know the basics of clicker conditioning and you're ready to go. I'm going to explain the steps I took to do so with my rose breasted cockatoo, Bandit, and how you can follow what I did with your own bird at home!
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Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Orlando, FL Pictured: Blue Front Amazon "Storm"
So, for 1.5 months I agreed to be a "foster home" to Storm (pictured above) who is a 35+ year old blue front Amazon parrot, sexed male.
The only history we know about Storm is that he was originally living in Florida when a hurricane hit and he got lost in it and...
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...
