Photo by Dave Location: Moab, UT With me: Blue throat macaw "Jinx"
No one has an entirely perfect parrot. Every parrot makes noise, every parrot makes a mess and every parrot bites whether it means to or not. Sure, there’s that abnormally calm cockatoo that hardly every screams or that super sweet and cuddly macaw that comes around every so oft...
Photo by Dave Location: Bothell, WA At Zazu's House: Blue and gold macaw
Unless your plucking parrot has a medical condition, these are the tips we give to those with plucking parrots. I thought it needed its own blog post to get those of you asking for help started with the proper links and beginner help.
Here are the first things we recomm...
Photo by Dave Location: Moab, UT Kissing: Camelot Macaw "Comet"
It’s never too late for a bird to learn; whether it’s learning to stop screaming, stop biting, fly for the first time or trick train or merely step up on a stranger... don’t give up on your bird by not ever giving it the chance by just assuming it’s too late. We’ve had 85 year old ...
Photo by Dave Location: Little Rock Zoo, AR Shown: Catalina Macaw
I recently got asked how to get a bird to enjoy being in its cage more, so to want to spend more time in there. Now, I definitely want my birds to enjoy being in their cages so that they aren’t miserable in their so-called “bedrooms”, and so that they won’t refuse to go back into...
Photo by Rachael Baker in Moab, Utah
Socializing your bird with new people can be really hard, not usually because of the bird, but because people react to things and sometimes they can react really dramatically. You don’t want the interactions your bird has with new people to be negative, and that’s why it’s best to start socializing with peo...
Our military macaw has always struggled with flying well. Mostly because he would spook and panic if he missed his first attempt at a landing, and end up crashing. We tried training him in a flight aviary where he could learn on his own time, we tried batting cages, we tried having him watch birds that were good at it and learning from them (o...
