Bird Treats for Training: Finding Yours

The easiest treats to train with are things that already come in small sizes such as sunflower seeds, pine nuts and spray millet. It's easy to hand your bird a single seed for a job well done or give them a quick bite of a millet stick. Other treats, such as peanuts or almonds, are more time consuming to prepare since you have to break them int...
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Flight Train Using Targeting

  To learn what it means to target train your bird, go to my blog entitled Target Training and Clicker Conditioning. The training that happens from your bird already knowing targeting, can be flight training your bird using the target stick. This training is very simple and happens pretty naturally for a flighted bird when just teaching them the...
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Parrot Tricks: Flight, Spin, Shake, and Yes

  Above is a video of my rose breasted cockatoo (commonly known as a galah) named Bondi performing some tricks she knows. The only one I left out was the bat but you can find that trick on my other video blogs. Here is a link to a complete parrot training guide. Article by Jamieleigh Womach. She has been working with parrots and toucans since ...
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Rose Breasted Cockatoos: 2 Months Old

 Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Orlando, Florida Of: Rose Breasted Cockatoos/Galahs "Bandit" and "Ace"  This picture was taken on my phone (hence the quality) of our two newest baby cockatoos named Bandit (ours) and Ace (a friend's). We picked up Ace and delivered him for our friends. Ace is in the forefront of his photo while Bandit is the one ...
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First Shower: Congo African Grey

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Orlando, Florida Bathers: Congo African Grey "Cressi" and Galah "Bondi"  Above is a polaroid photo I took of Cressi and Bondi. Cressi is now a 7 month old Congo African Grey and Bondi is a 3 year old Rose Breasted Cockatoo (galah). Bondi has been bathing for years now, but Cressi had her first shower a few months...
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Socializing: The One Person Bird

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Orlando, Florida Pals: Military Macaw "Cash" Meet Cash, our 2 year old military macaw (male). When we got Cash, we got two other macaws at the same time; Jersey and Chayko (female and male, sister and brother, blue and gold macaws). Because there were three birds, Dave and I split the bill. I mainly worked with Cha...
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