BirdTricks Tuesday | Flight Training Series Part 1 (OLDER BIRDS)
Added 2019-02-19 15:01:00 +0000 UTCWe are so excited to bring BirdTricks Tuesdays back to you guys! I had wanted to do this for a while, and starting a Patreon was just what I needed to pressure me into "just doing it". Because at BirdTricks we like to encourage proper exercise through flight when possible with pet parrots, I thought an entire series on flight training that applies to ALL circumstances could be really helpful.
Not only do we talk about the differences in small birds vs medium vs large but in this series we will focus on older birds (this part), clipped birds (part 2), baby birds (part 3) and outdoor flight (part 4).
Be sure to ask questions and give feedback so we can make sure this information applies to you and others as best we can and set everyone up on the best path to success.
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We rescued a 5 yrs old cockatiel name Doris. He wasn’t clip but had never fly. We also have Pikachu (another cockatiel)that we bought at a pet chop and was clipped but was maybe 4-6months old. He was a velcro bird. When his feathers grew back he became a fantastic flyer and do lapflys in our high cealing big room. His goes up the stairs flying and down the stairs too. 2 yrs from Doris adoption he now flys and sometimes would do just like Pika and take exercises lap fly around the house. He his not as confident has Pika but since he can move around by himself he doesn’t scream anymore. He hit the windows a flew times. We put up net on them so it won’t happen again. So being “mean” helps them same as being a parent mean you got to let the kid try for himself and get back up. I love you videos. I do a great job.
Genevieve Poirier-Arcand
2022-02-27 18:17:08 +0000 UTC😂😂😂😂
Kim Russell
2020-11-29 00:55:50 +0000 UTCWe discontinued many of our courses this year and put together new bundled courses. We decided to make our flight course our BirdTricks Tuesday videos on here instead. Maybe we will re-create a flight course, but it is so person and bird dependent that it can be really hard to teach a bunch of people with one method. Whereas here on Patreon we can really cater to our viewers better.
BirdTricks
2019-10-23 15:10:34 +0000 UTCI loved this whole series and I need to learn how to get my birds to fly to me. I clicked on the link but it said it isn’t there. :(. Indoor flight course
Deanne Hallforth
2019-10-22 20:22:38 +0000 UTCLoved this video! You guys are adorable. I'm going to make my friend join because she has fat old Amazons!! LOL
Peggy Smith
2019-03-30 02:05:58 +0000 UTCThis month we go over clipped birds in our flight training series!
BirdTricks
2019-03-06 17:40:38 +0000 UTCYes, this is basically implementing a cue - we do go over this in this series.
BirdTricks
2019-03-06 17:40:02 +0000 UTCOh I almost forgot. As a suggestion for future content, if you don't already have it planned, I would love info on how to stop a bird from flying to you. My baby quaker boy is constantly coming to me without being asked and harassing me for food and attention. My quakers free fly in their room as I can not afford a giant cage and I have been getting very annoyed with him lately. He also gets frustrated with me because I keep putting him back on his play stand instead of giving him whatever he wanted. And if my son goes in the room and forgets to close the door he will fly around the house trying to find me. I haven't seen in any of the videos I've watched you talk about this subject. It would be very helpful information for me. I am very much looking forward to learning more about training my 5 birds. Thank you so much for all the help.
Cherene Luksan
2019-03-06 09:42:42 +0000 UTCI have a cockatiel named Victor that I got 14 years ago at the age of 3 months. She came with clipped wings and even though I let them grow out she never learned to fly. She would scream and scream at us till we went and picked her up, or she would climb to the floor and run...as much as a tiel can run at least :). 5 years ago we adopted two males to be her companions. Very shortly after that she started showing signs of wanting to fly and is now finally able to get across her room, though she is very clumsy with landing. Watching the other birds fly taught her how to fly. She will still scream at us for attention and lean as far as she can to ask us to come get her and is not interested in flying to us. I'd like to train her to do so but I wasn't sure if she was too old to be taught. What do you think? Should I give it a go? Our two males are very afraid of people as they came from abuse so I am still on the 'I am not evil look I have a treat' faze with them, but she was my only love for almost 10 years so I have been surprised that she doesn't want to come to me. Maybe we spoiled her too much by always coming to get her when she called? Or maybe she is just a lazy old girl that doesn't like change :) is there any hope for us?
Cherene Luksan
2019-03-06 09:32:42 +0000 UTCWhen I think of older, I am thinking probably age 6 and up. But everyone will have their own definition of it, but that is what I would consider older for standards of learning to fly easily vs taking more work.
BirdTricks
2019-02-21 16:45:32 +0000 UTCLove the bloopers! 🤣😂💗
TheBioExplorer
2019-02-21 09:55:38 +0000 UTCI know this will vary by species but with regard to learning to fly... What is an older bird? In other words at what age will it be harder to teach them to fly? I know anything past fledging will be harder... but with an African Gray or Macaw... is 3 years old going to require the same tips as for "older birds". I know that's young for those birds but it's not a baby bird... or is it... with regard to flight?
TheBioExplorer
2019-02-21 09:39:22 +0000 UTCFunny story...as soon as I finished typing this I tried targeting my parrotlet to my arm and it worked!! He still wont descend but now can maybe slowly work on it.
Wendy Cottingham
2019-02-19 18:28:32 +0000 UTCI first want to say I understand the frustration with the clipped thing. Both of my birds were clipped when I went to pick them up uggh! Both breeders told me they wouldn't allow their birds to leave not clipped. My parrotlet sadly was clipped so horribly he dropped like a rock. He now flies like a crazy man but does not know how to descend and for some reason won't fly to me. He flies to one spot and then calls for me to pick him up. I'm trying to figure out how to stop that. My Ringneck has not gone thru his first big molt so I'm hoping I can teach him to fly to me before this happens so I'm really excited for the next one. I am now working on getting my Ringneck to forage for his pellets. I think it is a great point you make that a constant bowl full of nutrition is actually more harmful. I love my babies flighted and I hope that if I do get them so they will fly to me that if an accident did happen and they got loose outside there would be a far better chance of getting them back!!
Wendy Cottingham
2019-02-19 18:02:09 +0000 UTCOmg so first off, SUCH an entertaining video 😂😂 I was laughing and smiling and nodding along. Seriously so much fun to watch and extremely educational!! Second, I wanted to share a quick personal experience with something Jamie and Dave brought up - the simon says effect. This has become one of my most used tools for training something new and it is so incredibly powerful. Lately I have been using it with my free flight bird to teach him ascent/descent skills along with turning tighter in the air. It's amazing. Lastly, thank you so much to Jamie and Dave for tackling this topic. Unfortunately my older bird is not able to fly due to arthritis (which was discovered via a full body xray) but we plan on implementing the tree idea with her to still get her moving more. We had to start even slower though, just getting her used to climbing around on a single tree (her climbing and balance skills are not great due to her condition). However, through medication and working with her she has gotten so much more active and so much friendlier to be around!! Love BirdTricks Tuesdays!! Can't wait for the next one!!
Ashlyn Barnes
2019-02-19 17:10:43 +0000 UTC
