Live Chat (Indoor Flight Training) Recording
Added 2021-02-06 20:11:32 +0000 UTCHey guys! This one took us a bit to get uploaded but here it is from last month!
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I have a Gold&Blue Macaw I rather be in the same size birds but also would like to learn other sizes cause I do have a Blue headed pionus
Edwin Conde
2021-02-23 07:17:40 +0000 UTCI would also appreciate indoor flight training classes. It would help me to have different levels in one class to get a better sense of how to trouble shoot issues.
Ellen O'Callaghan
2021-02-21 23:05:28 +0000 UTCI would love indoor flight training with clipped babies..
Carolina Perez
2021-02-20 00:23:24 +0000 UTCBtw zoom is so much easier than the Instagram live chats albeit I wasn’t able to attend at that time ( I Volunteer at Wilson’s Parrot Rescue that morning) but excited about indoor flight lessons
Lisa Fahlstrom
2021-02-11 02:37:13 +0000 UTCI’m late at this comment but would enjoy indoor flight training with various size birds but on same level as mine
Lisa Fahlstrom
2021-02-11 02:29:26 +0000 UTCNot sure how easy it would be to divide the group that way but it is an idea we will consider!
BirdTricks
2021-02-10 18:30:13 +0000 UTCIm thinking that each bird, regardless of size/species, will have different needs or concerns based on size, age, clipped,unclipped etc.. I think having like a beginners, intermediate, advanced course with different sizes and species of birds would be awesome! This way there would be birds starting at the same level but with different addressable needs that the whole class would learn about! Love you guys!
Gina Conrad
2021-02-10 16:45:52 +0000 UTCI am very much on board for this idea. And I actually love the idea of the mixed sizes.
Everwynne
2021-02-10 15:47:03 +0000 UTCHey heyyy! Loving the idea of an indoor flight course.. personally I have a small yard and A TON of prey birds constantly flying over my home.. eek. I wonder if we could be grouped into similar bird sizes/ages/clipped vs not clipped and then we get to learn from each other in a 6-8 week course ?! I’d love that.. seems attainable, incredibly educational and I’d 100% sign up for that.
Missy Sanchez Lee
2021-02-10 06:07:46 +0000 UTCThis was awesome! I really appreciate it and enjoyed it. I'm sorry it is so late that I am getting to listen to this (having some medical issues). I sent an email suggesting that perhaps those who are not chosen could watch the group who's going to get trained?
Paulette Melick
2021-02-09 20:26:30 +0000 UTCYes we have considered that but it would definitely be on a case by case basis for the outdoor course.
BirdTricks
2021-02-08 21:55:18 +0000 UTCI've so been looking forward to this recording. I had an emergency the day of the live and couldn't attend. This is a subject that I've so wanted to learn more about! I have a 20 month old Quaker that was hand fed. I bought him from the breeder with clipped wings. He tried to fly constantly the first couple of months, but quit soon after. He was usually cage free, and has play stands or t-stands all over the house. Two months ago, after watching a video of Blueberry flying, and I started encouraging him to hop to me from a few inches. We progressed quickly, and a couple of weeks later he was flying across the room. He now flies all over the house, and in my opinion is wild! He will fly by me with his wings touching my face as he goes by. He also flies around corners, and dive bombs toward the floor only to ascend an inch from hitting the floor. He no longer will recall for me unless I bribe him with treats he can see. This past summer, I took him outside daily to a cage we have in our pool area, and he loved it! I am now terrified of him getting out of the house! I am very interested in a indoor flying course.
Melinda Coker
2021-02-07 21:39:36 +0000 UTCI wish I had been on this live chat. I would be very interested in an indoor flight course. My 8 month old pionus was clipped by the breeder. He can't fly more than to assist what is really a jump. His stocky body makes him too heavy to fly on clipped wings. He hasn't had a molt of his large feathers yet (tail or wings), just head and chest at about 4 months when his baby colors were growing out. The big molt and new wing feathers will be coming in a couple of months if not sooner. 🤞 I'd like to get ahead of that so he already has some recall skills before the wing feathers grow in. I think he'll take to flying once he is able. He typically obsesses over newfound skills or athletic goals. He spent I don't know how many hours teaching himself how to flip around his perch. This is not something I ever tried to teach him. He thought of it on his own and practiced until he could do it. I couldn't count how many times he got stuck dangling upside down or by his beak from his perch and falling before he was able to do it. I thought there was no way he'd ever be strong enough to pull his stocky body 360 degrees around a perch. It was like my childhood fantasy of bng able to swing all of the way around the swingset in a loop. I saw several videos of tiny slender birds doing it but none of larger birds. Then one day I was sitting beside his cage and surprise he flipped around his perch like it was nothing. Well not nothing. You can tell that it's a big physical effort when he's doing it. Not like the tiny birds who can maneuver so effortlessly. Of course I trained him to do it on cue as a trick. It's now his go to move to beg for a nut. He has been trying to pull himself up by his beak on a cagetop perch even though there is a lower perch he can easily use like a ladder. Every single day he tries. I'm sure these athletic stunts are substitutes for learning to fly. He also loves target training. He'd probably do it all day if people were willing. At this point he doesn't try to fly very often because he understands that he can't but I think he would be all over it if he suddenly could do it I hope his flight feathers grow back while he still has this determination. Very excited and we definitely want to be involved. We can be your clipped baby/juvenile birds test case. Since Hal is a smaller medium sized bird with a stocky build and pionus are known to be excellent long distance flyers, he might cover a lot of bird types. 🤩❤️
Holden Kendrick
2021-02-07 18:31:05 +0000 UTCReally excited about all these new ideas you guys are coming out with. I’m currently holding out on getting my first bird until I have all the resources available. Especially the baby bird course as there currently isn’t any rescues in Northern Ireland. I’d be super interested in this course when I get my bird, but was wondering if after you took the indoor flight course could you move up into the outdoor course at like a reduced cost? But then I’m thinking if I wanna do free flight in the end may as well jump in there 😂 🤷♀️ thanks for all the hard work guys loving this zoom version so much more. Can’t wait to join one this month 😂
Casey Thompson
2021-02-07 17:38:58 +0000 UTCI'm really excited about this course! I've got a 2 year old GCC who was clipped by the breeder, but who is fully flighted now and flies around the house. We've been working on recall, moving targets, ascent and descent, but as others stated, we don't know what we don't know, so this will be fantastic! The main goal for us is to minimize the risk of losing her should she get outside.
Heather Wolf
2021-02-06 23:47:05 +0000 UTCI would love to do this course! I have two GCC one is great at flying (goes around corners, working on flogging into dark rooms). One Indian ring neck also an amazing flyer (corners, want to work on faster recall). Then a clipped 6month Jenday (he is really challenging me over all). But as they said in the zoom, I don’t know what I don’t know. Super excited to see this course come to fruition!
kaitlyn halitsky
2021-02-06 22:32:24 +0000 UTCI would be interested in a course depending on the price. I have 2 parrotlets, an Indian Ringneck and a green cheek. They are all amazing fliers except one of my parrotlets. She was never clipped but was in a tiny cage and never let out to use her wings so she struggles but I have finally got her to fly to my finger. My other parrotlet is a stubborn little stinker and does not want to land on my finger, we are still working on it. So I have 4 birds all with a little bit of different troubles. About 25 years ago I had a quaker escape and I thought he could fly really well that's when I learned they don't naturally know how to descend. My brother had to climb the tree! I would give anything to be able to fly my Ringneck outside he is such an incredible flier and I know he would love it!! I just worry without a flock it just wouldn't work . i hope we can come up with something that will work for everyone!! Thank you for all you do!
Wendy Cottingham
2021-02-06 22:22:47 +0000 UTCI would definitely take a 6-8 week indoor flight course. I want my bird to be confident and capable of navigating the house, and just in case she ever got out, I’d like her to have the best chance of getting her back safely. I have only a limited understanding of what skills she needs to learn, so a course like this would be soooooo helpful!!!
Veronica Park
2021-02-06 21:25:56 +0000 UTC
