Category: Behaviour & Training

Detailing the author's personal learning and teaching experience with her parakeet.

Meeting Birdie, a small bird with big feather-plucking problems, and helping her to heal.

Teaching new behaviours as a way of automatically reducing problem behaviours.

Asking the question: should companion birds be allowed on caregivers' shoulders?

Learning how to effectively handle an over-exuberant bird.

Assessing what seem like new phobic behaviours in your parrot.

Highlighting the work of Dr. Susan Friedman, who has helped pioneer efforts to apply to animals the scientifically sound teaching technology and ethical standard of Applied Behavior Analysis.

Filling the behaviour-change toolbox.

Profiling one of the best-known animal trainers in the world, Steve Martin, who has pioneered the art of training birds and other animals with positive reinforcement.

Understanding how to identify and eliminate risk factors, and providing enrichment and training to help address feather-destructive behaviour in companion parrots.