If your bird never fledged or has been clipped for a few years, he might not fly much or venture into other rooms at first, causing you to think that my suggestions are somewhat over-the-top. If you allow your birds to perch on your shower rod and happen to have a shower curtain, placing a second rod above the one that holds the curtain will prevent the need to replace that regularly. These can be protected either by using cord channels or black pliable irrigation tubing slit down the center and placed around the wire. By providing perches that hang from the ceiling, your bird will be more likely to choose those instead of your own furnishings.Įlectrical cords can be a hazard and replacing appliances gets to be a real drag. Birds naturally seek the highest place to perch. While these may seem, at first glance, inconvenient to install and maintain, they will make life so much easier. ![]() At the end of this post, I have included a list of perches that I know from personal experience to be attractive to parrots. Skillful placement of hanging perches, free-standing perches and table-top perches will help to guarantee that the experience is fun for all. It is a bird’s nature to follow the flock and a flighted parrot will follow you from room to room. The ideal environment will have a perch in every room to which your parrot has access. Therefore, you will need to provide your flighted bird with his own “furnishings,” in order to keep him off of your own. They enjoy sitting on top of doors to chew the molding. Many seem to have a particular fondness for lampshades. They will perch on bookcases and chew the spines of the books. His ability to move around is not compromised, so he can make a lot moreīirds want to perch up high and flighted parrots go where they want. Him to his cage whenever you can’t directly supervise. Have an out-of-control experience with your bird and will wind up relegating You’re going to have to accept the fact that you’ll be doing some training to maintain compliance. The ability to live cooperatively with flighted birds depends upon three main areas of management: (1) setting up the environment effectively, (2) training yourself to be continually mindful, and (3) learning how to efficiently provide behavioral guidance. ![]() Thus, I offer this blog post to you, so that you can avoid some of the hassles that I had due to my own inexperience. It’s much easier to have a bit of guidance from someone who has experience in this area. ![]() I don’t actually recommend this approach to those of you considering transitioning from living with a wing-clipped parrot to living with a bird who flies. So, I made the decision with an abundance of enthusiasm and the confidence No-brainer that they should enjoy flight. Had gained more hands-on experience with birds, it just seemed to be a I stopped clipping wings back in the late 1990’s.
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