Training Tidbit – Bird Have Opinions If you have a bird, you know quite well your bird has opinions! There are foods he will eat, there are foods he […]
Training Tidbit – Capturing Cute Noises
Training Tidbit – capturing cute crow noises How often does your bird make a cute noise? Would you like to hear cute noises more often? Would you like to be […]
Training Tidbit – New Year New You!
Training Tidbit – New Year, New You Welcome to 2018! Start the year off on the right foot by starting some fun training with your bird. Often people think either […]
Training Tidbit – Perch Step Ups
Training Tidbit – Perch Step Ups We are getting closer to the time of year where the days are getting longer, the weather is wetter, and maybe even getting […]
Training Tidbit – Generalizing
Quentin is a parrot who is comfortable doing a “Step Up” in many new situations. He accompanies me to the Parrot Club, where he will step up to myself and […]
Training Tidbit – Learning to Look
Training Tidbit – Learning to Look Look at these two photographs. This is Jenny, the Congo African Grey Parrot. She enjoys […]
Training Tidbit – SCARY OBJECTS!!
Training Tidbit: Scary Objects! Sometimes our birds are afraid of the funniest things. I recently worked with a bird who was acting strange. Would not come out of her cage! […]
Training Tidbit: Step up!
Training Tidbit – The Rules for Step Up I hope many of our birds are already comfortable with stepping onto peoples’ hands. We call this “step-up”. Sometimes there are situations […]
Training Tidbit: Success is easy!
Success is Easy! Or perhaps I should say, Success SHOULD BE Easy! Often when we start training our parrots, we have a great idea of the end goal. Put the […]
IAABC Conference 2017
I had the immense pleasure of attending the IAABC conference in Los Angeles this April 7 and 8 2017. That’s the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants. I’ve been a […]