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Good Bird Inc Parrot Training Talk
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Good Bird Parrot Training Talk provides information and stories about training parrots. Professional Animal Trainer Barbara Heidenreich shares her experiences teaching people about parrots, including advice for addressing parrrot behavior problems. Barbara is the author of two books on parrot behavior, producer of a DVD series on parrot training and publisher of Good Bird Magazine. For more information visit www.GoodBirdInc.com.
Recent Posts
Transitioning Baby Parrots to a New Home
All that training paid off! The baby parrots have transitioned to their new home at the Kaytee Learning Center. I mentioned in a previous blog, that one of the best things we can do for a young parrot is train him. Young parrots are sponges. During t...
Traveling with Parrots
Twenty hours in a car. That is how long it took to get the baby parrots to their new home. And I am happy to report the journey proceeded without incident. This is in part because of some advance training. Both Beni and Wrigley had already learned to...
Training Baby Parrots
It is a bittersweet week. The baby parrots, Beni and Wrigley have completed their training with me and are about to make the journey to their new home at the Kaytee Learning Center. I know I will miss them terribly, but at the same time I am excited ...
Parrots and Children
Recently, the baby parrots had their first introduction to children. This was going to be a big new experience. There were four children who were very excited to meet the parrots. There were also three adults (including myself) to make sure the situa...
Teaching Parrots to Like New People and Places - Making Progress!
Beni and Wrigley are progressing nicely. To keep things moving forward we traveled to another new environment. Travel in the crate would be a bit longer this time as our destination was about 20 miles away. My friend Heather is an animal lover and al...
This Parrot is Gonna Be a Talker!
Wrigley the double yellow headed amazon was quite entertaining last night. He is certainly starting to stretch his vocal abilities. He is mostly just producing sounds at this point, but every once in a while says "good bird", "hi", "hello" and does a...

