December 31, 2008 – 10:45 am
…and he doesn’t look so happy about it. All the same, I love that someone was partying in a San Francisco night club with a parrot in 1956. Thanks LIFE magazine for the great photo!
December 30, 2008 – 8:03 am
I’m a chicken hawk….
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Ty, the HeckledbyParrots.com mascot.
December 29, 2008 – 6:00 am
I occasionally have a foster dog come through my house and this means that I have to consider how to immediately train a dog not to eat the parrots. I’m a Brittany spaniel person so this means my dogs are pretty keen on birds. When one of my fosters was relentless about the parrot cages [...]
December 28, 2008 – 6:00 am
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One only has to start here and begin to click from one video to the next to see a tremendous variety of cats versus parrot species. I chose this one because it’s really cute. Maybe I enjoy the tension of cute vs common sense because I find myself watching it over and over. “Awwwww isn’t [...]
December 27, 2008 – 9:00 am
Barbara Heideinreich and I talk on her Wings ‘n Things podcast about parrot training and why falconry informs the way I train parrots. We were both at the Gabriel Foundation, recording this late at night. Barb was exhausted and I had a couple glasses of wine, but really, we always have that much fun.
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December 26, 2008 – 10:43 am
JoJo has a grey who amuses himself by grunting with exertion when she bends over to pick something up off the floor. JoJo didn’t plan on teaching her parrot to do this, but hey, it’s kind of funny. Why not get it on a verbal cue?
Okay, lets say you want to get your parrot to [...]
December 23, 2008 – 8:39 am
los angeles craigslist > SF valley > pets
greenwing macaw trade for a buddy pass of inter. airline ticket (anywhere)
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Date: 2008-12-22, 8:09PM PST
i HAVE A MALE GREENWING MACAW PARROT THAT IS 23 YEARS OLD, HE SPEAKS ENGLISH AND SPANISH. HE DOES TRICKS AND IS PLAYFULL BUT MOODY.TO TRADE FOR A BUDDY PASS OR A INTERNATIONAL [...]
December 22, 2008 – 2:55 pm
Getting vocal behaviors on cue is one of my favorite things to train. Perhaps its because I’m pretty quiet and poised (brooding and intense if you ask those who work with me) and making noise with a parrot gives me an opportunity to cut loose in private. Training vocal behavior on cue requires teaching the sound [...]
December 22, 2008 – 1:25 pm
Not to be outdone, my pal Matt Edmonds shows off with his Amazon parrot, Moby!
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FIRE!!!
Matt and I just saw each other for the first time in about 8 years, volunteering our time teaching at The Gabriel Foundation Behavior and Learning Workshop for Professionals. We were too busy to watch each other train (even experience trainers [...]
December 20, 2008 – 7:00 am
I’ve always loved working with Amazons. I’m a Grey Girl at my core, of course. The reserved and serious demeanor of my thinking parrot suits me better than the party parrots — dancers like cockatoos or singers like Amazons. Still, nothing steals a scene like a crowd pleasing Amazon. If I had more cocktail parties in [...]
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