Photo by Dave Location: Augusta, GA Bathing: Galahs "Ace" & "Bondi" Bathing your parrot often is crucial to your parrot's health and feather condition. Some birds love to bathe (Comet, my Camelot macaw will literally take a bath ANYTIME!) others... not so much... like my military macaw will hang in the back while everyone else gets wet. He ...

I realized just the other day how I've used mirrors A LOT in my training of parrots. It sounds weird, but every time I use the mirror to train one of my birds... it seems to train something completely different. Okay, I've only had two examples of this but now that I've caught onto it I will be using it on ALL my birds eventually. So far, it's j...

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Coney Island, NY Shown: Aviaries locked with 3 combination locks & chain  We do a number of things to protect our parrots. Recently, I was asked on our youtube account if we worry about having our parrots outside as they could attract thieves. And we've all heard the horror stories of pet parrots being stolen...

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Savannah, GA dressing room With a bandaged toe: Galah "Bandit" I can't tell you how many times I've almost shut the door on my parrot's foot or toes. And then there's the amount of times I actually have done it. C'mon, don't give me that reaction, you've done or almost done it too! Our parrots are fast, they wedg...

Photo by Dave Location: Orlando, FL Shown: My hand wearing bird ring by Sora Designs  I love all accessories related to birds. This one in the photo was a Christmas present to myself. I knicked myself a bit with the sharp edges of this ring, hence the redness in my fingers, but I still love this ring!  I'm also a huge fan of Etsy and all it ...

To my surprise, I've gotten asked a lot "How do you tell when your parrot is about to go to the bathroom?" and I guess I never realized that I knew this, but I do and in a lot of my videos you see me move my bird before he/she goes. It's a valid question so along with the video above (feel free to leave comments on how YOU tell with your own b...