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Foraging Strategies with Feeding Activities

Our birds need to forage as part of their daily activities, yet sometimes, we have to take steps in teaching our birds to forage successfully. Caretakers can use various pet products to create different levels of foraging activities that empower a bird with a sense of accomplishment!

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All Behavior, Play & Training Articles

  • Preparing Your Parrot for Your New Baby

    This article I will address the challenges that you may face when bringing your first “human” baby into the home without making your parrots find a new one!

  • Parrot Training: The Trouble with Punishment

    As the human-parrot bond is broken down through these trust destroying techniques, many negative behaviors become more pronounced.

  • Enriching Bird Diet With Grains, Seeds And Nuts

    Good quality seeds, grains and nuts, especially in freshly packaged mixes such as Tropimix, can be a great addition to a companion bird’s array of enrichment foods. While healthy seeds have some nutritional benefits, HARI recommends that fatty seeds be limited to prevent obesity.

  • Enrichment Foods and Tropican Consumption

    Healthy seed mixes, fresh fruits and vegetables, sprouted seeds, treat sticks, and millet sprays all make up good choices for most parrots enrichment diet.

  • Creating foraging opportunities for your bird is not difficult. When food or treats are incorporated into toys, parrots will stay interested much longer.
    Parrot treats for Foraging & training
  • Tropican Bird Food Diet Conversion Techniques

    The right cage choices, food dish placement, as well as optimal times to offer Tropican bird food can make a big difference in encouraging our parrots to eat a minimum of 70% Tropican. Often caretakers offer too much variety in their bird’s diet and that not only contributes to improper nutrition, these mistakes can also…

  • Occupational Therapy Devices or Bird Toys?

    No worries-there’s no data charges to contend with. But, all birds need something. We at HARI like to refer to what is commonly called “Bird Toys” as Occupational Therapy Devices and for a good reason!

  • Adapting a Bird to a Flight Harness

    a quality made flight harness is just the tool required for responsible flying.

  • “Seizing the Moment” with Parrot Fledglings?

    Theory and Philosophy of HARI’s “Seizing the Moment” with Avian Enrichment Specialist, Robin Shewokis.

  • Offer safe, quality toys to your bird as an outlet to encourage natural bird behaviours, mental stimulation and to promote exercise.
    toys for Functional play
  • Weaning for Success: Towel Training Quakers

    HARI presents techniques and methods used in weaning baby parrots.

  • Weaning for Success: Quaker Parrot Nutrition

    While the focus of this series is on the Quaker parakeet, this weaning process is applied to the many species of companion birds raised at HARI.

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Do companion birds need a detox?

Inspired by the natural geophagy behaviour of birds in the wild, Clay-Cal Bentonite Clay for companion birds is milled specifically to provide this natural clay to pet birds to help improve their overall health and well-being.

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