Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Coney Island, New York Shown: Baby Blue and Gold Macaw "Coco" After approximately 3 months of hand feeding, raising and training Coco, our friend's blue and gold macaw, we recently said goodbye to her and sent her home to him from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It was harder than I thought, which is why I always hate t...

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Moab, Utah Flying: Blue fronted Amazon parrot "Storm" I received this email from my dear friend Jeanne, who has Storm. I just had to share it, as it had me rolling this morning! Today was a pretty painful day for me and so I didn't do a great deal of moving around. That is until I decided I had completely had en...

Photo by David Location: Coney Island, NY Shown: Animal Open House Aviaries My cockatoo, Bondi, makes this obnoxious sound on metal. If I take all the metal away (which is impossible by the way because eventually she will even do it on the cage bars) she will find something to do this sound on. It's like she's feeding from it and no one reall...

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Coney Island, NY Cuddled up: Blue and gold macaw "Coco"  These three things are especially important if you have a new baby bird, they go a LONG way, trust me! And these are things I try to do daily with my own birds.  The first is training AND playing... they are different. With training there is an expectati...

Photo by David Location: Coney Island, NY Baby bird: Blue and gold macaw "Coco" For my friend Gary, I am bird sitting a baby blue and gold macaw named Coco for a couple months. Coco is super sweet, as all baby birds are, and watching her for my friend is making me really realize where people can go wrong with their own baby birds.  For whatever...

Recently we worked in Jinx, our blue throated macaw, into another segment of the show. Originally when this piece first went into the show, the flight Jinx performed was a straight line from Dave to me. Now, however, we have been able to train Jinx to fly forward and turn to land on me, making it more impressive for the audience and much more ...