... Maybe ET was just someone's lost pet trying to get home again... Parrots: more than pets, friends for life. Chris Biro chrisbiro@... (206) 618-2610...
I’m so glad that you got him back so soon! He sounds like a neat parrot. Wasn’t there a previous surprise burst out of the flight by another one of your...
... I've never taught my birds to station, although I do think it would be handy. I've never worried about a bird flying out of the flight since they are all,...
WE have a flimsy outer door to the inner aviary aviary. You have to shut one before opening the next. Casper can push them open but he has not learned learned...
Dot Schwarz
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Jul 13, 2008 10:10 pm
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If you don't want to teach them to stay on certain perches when you enter, you could just hang a piece of plastic or bed sheet or pretty much anything safe to...
Hanging bead curtains work. I use those inside the house. Double doors on the aviaries. Linda/FL [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
1. Please cut and paste ONLY what you are responding to - to NOT do that makes reading in digest a living nightmare (also stinks if you aren't!). 2. When...
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Jul 14, 2008 6:14 am
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Welcome to Free Flight! Please take a moment to go to Chris Biro's website, www.thepiratesparrot.com and click on freeflight. The articles that Chris has...
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Jul 14, 2008 6:14 am
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At least, that's what I think I've found here: Chris Biro's Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/chrisbiro1 Incredible - every single clip -...
From FBwiki www.wingsatliberty.com Chris Biro on Training The following links contain discussion by Chris Biro of subjects related to training parrots for...
I recently received an email from Kathy Heaton. It was a copy of an email she sent to three Yahoo Group lists: Bird Breeder-Hobbyist, CelebrateParrots, and...
Annoying when people do that . Can you tell us if you notice any difference in Byrd since his overnighter. Casper's first overnighter when he was 8 months old...
Dot Schwarz
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Jul 15, 2008 2:21 pm
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... overnighter. ... of him demanding spoon feeding for several weeks afterwards. He also had bars on his feathers feathers. Subsequently he never showed signs...
Byrd is a grey isn't he? If so, (but I'm sometimes so terribly wrong and apologize if I am), our cag, Maggie, age 13, has been here 3 years. She's only caged...
Dot had asked if there was a change in Byrd since his overnighter. I have noticed that he has been in a crouched, quivering position a few times since the...
I'm curious, if he isn't happy on the stick so that he wants to fly away from it to the perch, why is he willing to step up on it in the first place? I don't...
What is an overnighter? Jay Dot had asked if there was a change in Byrd since his overnighter. I have noticed that he has been in a crouched, quivering...
I apologize for crossposting without permission, but your message triggered a desire to share what I perceived as the upside of the story. (See Forwarded...
... first place? ... him to ... Hi Curtis, It goes back to when he came to stay for a few months this last time I took care of him. (The previous owner...
... Hi Jay, An overnighter is when a bird spends the night outside. It occasionally happens with the birds we fly outdoors. See Message #69948 "Byrd Phones...
This morning I repeated Byrd's flying training. He seems both a bit unsure but excited about flying. When I presented the stick, he eagerly stepped up on it...
... birds ... stick. ... step ... the ... Sometimes ... a ... something ... Hi guys: This list gets in all kinds of discussion regarding what is or is not an...
I've had similar experiences with several Timnehs Janet. 5 non flying Timnehs. 3 wild caught 2 captive bred. The wild caught stick trained fast and learned to...
Dot Schwarz
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Jul 18, 2008 4:11 pm
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Mona wrote: ... Hi Mona, Not wanting to start up the usual debate, but I can't just let this slide. This article is so riddled with errors that I nearly...
So who ever Murray Sidman is, ... Well, I can see I was wrong about that! I should have Googled Murray Sidman before I trashed his good name. Now I'm guessing...
... I agree 100%!!! The article is complete rubbish! It was so bad, I had trouble finishing it. Dana is correct. Punishment has nothing to do with whether...
Artha is an African Grey hen hatched in 1999. She was sole parrot for 18 months and had an 150 word vocabulary of which maybe 40|% words was used in correct...
Dot Schwarz
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... reversion to how she behaved years ago? ... Hi Dot, I think birds speak/imitate to entertain themselves. For some reason, Artha didn't find speech...
NEI ? That gives me a pause. Those birds are never sole birds with humans are they? Artha talked when a single bird but when with a companion bird and yet more...
