Photo by Dave Location: Moab, UT On my shoulder: Blue throated macaw "Jinx" So, I'm going around with my husband Dave in January and doing "at home" consults with him for needy bird owners.  And today I was going through the many emails we received about people begging us to come to their home and help them with their parrot problems... trying ...

Photo by Dave Location: Sedona, AZ Freeflying: Blue throat macaw "Jinx" When we moved from Saipan to our house here in Florida all we cared about was space for our birds. Our house has a bird room that is 200 square feet and tile floor, and room for 3 6-foot diameter aviaries outside in our backyard. We back up to 100 wooded acres of nothing-ne...

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Orlando, FL Movie date with: Congo African Grey "Cressi" Somehow the other day the subject of having a movie night with your parrot came up between Patty and I and we looked at each other with the expression of, Hey, why NOT have a movie night with your parrot? Everyone should try it!  So here I am writing about it...

Photo by Dave Location: Musha Cay, Bahamas Shown: Blue and gold macaw "Chayko"  It seems that most bird owners have a harder time with starting training at all in the first place, but sometimes people once they dive into the wonderful world of training, get a little too excited and can push a training session too far.  Just recently I had someo...

Photo by Dave Location: Orlando, FL Training: Hyacinth Macaw "Hymie" When I took on a 4 year old hyacinth macaw named Hymie, I had a good idea of what I was getting into. This bird was not shoulder-trained so he went up there anytime he pleased and refused to come down until HE wanted to. The cure? Stationing. I taught him to “station” which me...

Custom Artwork of my family by Luiza RL Life with our birds after a 2 year long tour has been very different. It’s nice not to need to have expectations, I will admit that. We were never really into much of a routine on the tour. The number of shows each week changed, the times changed, and the miles we drove and places we stopped and arrived t...