Freestyle Flyer's Club in California

Photo by Gilbert Location: Palm Springs, CA The Freestyle Flyer's Club is all about people interested in freeflight training their parrots for the outdoors and Dave and I try to visit as many places as we possibly can to share the gift of freeflight with everyone through our YouTube channel and our Facebook and Instagram accounts. If you are in...
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Parrot Attacks Police

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Musha Cay, Bahamas Fighting: Blue and gold macaws "Chayko" & "Jersey" It's not every day a celebrity parrot makes it in the news! You can read the article here. Article by Jamieleigh Womach. She has been working with parrots and toucans since the age of 17. She isn’t homeless but is home less than she prefers...
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Getting Your Parrot to Be Mellow...

Photo by Dave Location: Cruise Ship Backstage Preening pal: Congo Grey "Cressi"  I love to spend quality time building my bond with my parrots, but sometimes they are just so high maintenance that it makes it on the line of miserable. I don't want to always be "baby sitting" my birds, I'd like to just have us both do our own thing and be happ...
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Day Trips with Your Parrot

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Somewhere in Nevada Road trip pal: Congo Grey "Cressi" Taking your parrot on day trips is SO important for mental stimulation AND bonding. A good rule of thumb to remember is being the "familiar in a world of unfamiliars" which basically translates to... even if your bird isn't your BFF, when you take it somewher...
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Rough Housing Your Parrot

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Orlando, FL Playing: Grey Parrot "Cressi" Rough housing your bird is actually a VERY good thing to do with them early on. It's a form of play that some birds LOVE and NEED. Other birds, maybe not so much, but every bird can enjoy it. Even my most mellow parrot, Bondi, lets us know she wants to play rough once in ...
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Parrot Tricks: Running on Cue

Recently I thought that it would super cute if I could train my Camelot Macaw, Comet, to run to me on command. The command I wanted to be my finger like you would tell someone to come here. Since Comet is already recall trained, it made it really easy to put the running on cue. He has done the running thing more naturally than any of the other...
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