Behavior & Training
Parrot behavior can often be complex and mis-understood. More often than not, the answer to correcting a behavioral problem is to have your parrot learn to trust you. Granted you need to first determine if your bird’s behavior issues are different than normal since parrots are amazing at masking illness. You can help ease boredom behavior by providing a safe, enriching environment and as many foraging opportunities as possible. Training your companion will keep him entertained and active and out of trouble.
Clicker Training Your Parrot to Modify Behavior
Many inexperienced bird owners, tend to blame to a pet parrot for behaviors such as screaming, biting, messiness, or destructive chewing within the house... Read More
Preparing Your Parrot for Your New Baby
Bringing Home Baby, Not Bye-Bye Birdie. In rare circumstances it may be necessary to re-home your bird when a child enters the picture, but why give up before trying... Read More
Parrot Love: Reading Bird Body Language
Just as bird body language can indicate something wrong, it can also demonstrate that it is absolutely right. Owners can look for behaviors indicating health and comfort.... Read More
Training Your Budgie: How To Tame a Parakeet
Many people incorrectly think that only male budgies can learn to speak, females can talk too. The closer the bond with you, the more motivated your bird will be to want to learn... Read More
Parrots & Birds: Positive Reinforcement Training
Dominance and respect are an on-going controversy in the animal and avian worlds. How far should we go to turn our pet bird into the perfect companion... Read More
Nature or Nurture: How Parrots & Birds Learn
A Bird is a Bird is a Bird... Or Is It? Too often bird owners who believe that their own particular way of raising the bird will make it into something it is not... Read More
