How to Train Multiple Birds at Once

Photo by Dave Womach Location: White Sands, New Mexico Pictured flying: Camelot macaw "Tusa" and Galah "Bandit" (Email info@birdtricks.com for our freeflight course) There’s a lot of questions that come up when it comes to training more than one bird. There are times when it works for the better to train birds at once (more than one) and there ...
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There's This One Thing That Really Annoys Me About Parrots...

Photo by David Location: Coney Island, NY Shown: Animal Open House Aviaries My cockatoo, Bondi, makes this obnoxious sound on metal. If I take all the metal away (which is impossible by the way because eventually she will even do it on the cage bars) she will find something to do this sound on. It's like she's feeding from it and no one reall...
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Show Off Your Parrot

Photo by Dave Location: Sandpoint, Idaho Show off: Galah "Bondi"  I love showing off my parrots and they love showing off! Especially my rose breasted cockatoo (galah) Bondi. She is the typical cockatoo - a complete ham in public! She loves having all the attention and will yell, "Hey Cutie!" at anyone who ignores her. Showing off your bird c...
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How to Clicker Train Your Bird

Have you been hearing a lot about clicker training but have NO IDEA how to get started or even, how the heck to do it? Well, I'm going to fill ya in! What you need to clicker train is...  1. A clicker 2. Your animal's favorite treat The reason you clicker train is to teach your animal to LEARN. It is a way for you to communicate with your animal...
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A Touch Training Trick I Discovered Using 2 Birds

 Photo by Dave Location: Holland America Cruise Line Theater Pictured: Galahs "Bandit" and "Bondi" I touch trained my 4-5 month old rose breasted cockatoo, Bandit, in two days with three training sessions. It’s the very first thing I taught him (aside from flight training outdoors) and it was actually harder to touch train (or target train) h...
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