by Chris Biro | Feb 9, 2010 | Information
Selecting The Species of Parrot To Fly Written By Chris Biro, Copyright 20 November 2010 Not all species of parrots are equally good flight candidates. Some have physical features that make them better (large, loud and colorful) and some have mental features that make...
by Chris Biro | Jan 31, 2010 | Training
Clicker Training Written By Chris Biro, Copyright 31 January 2010 Success training parrots to fly out doors depends largely on your ability to set the animal up to change its behavior. Before attempting to flight train a parrot outdoors I recommend you master basic...
by Chris Biro | Jan 5, 2010 | Behavior
Terms of the Four Quadrants Identified Written By Chris Biro, Copyright 5 January 2010 Increase Behavior Decrease Behavior Add Something Positive Reinforcement Positive Punishment Remove Something Negative Reinforcement Negative Punishment A Freeflight list member...
by Chris Biro | Oct 20, 2009 | Information
A Word About Information Sources This page is intended to be a caution against relying on internet information available from internet marketers claiming to be professional trainers. First off let me mention some legitimate trainers and information sources that we do...
by Chris Biro | Feb 13, 2009 | Behavior
Written by Chris Biro, Copyright 2-13-2009 A freeflight list member wrote “I am reading all these messages about the benefit of empowering parrots. This sounds like something I need for my birds as food training is starting to bore them. Can someone please...
by Chris Biro | Aug 23, 2008 | Behavior
Written by Chris Biro, Copyright 8-23-2008 A freeflight list member wrote: “Chris can give you his thoughts on this, but I have to agree with what he said to me. He felt there was a biological imperative to roost and my birds sure acted like they were driven to find...
by Chris Biro | Aug 23, 2008 | General
Hand-Feeding Baby Parrots For Flight Training Written by Chris Biro, Copyright 8-23-2008 There have been some questions about what my position is regarding hand feeding baby birds for freeflight training purposes. So let me go over this here. We have discussed various...
by Chris Biro | Apr 15, 2008 | Flying & FreeFlight
Written by Chris Biro, Copyright 2008 The Question: “I saw in this last post the mention of the use of a harness for restraining the movements of a parrot. Is it common? Is there a site I could see such a device?” I do not like the idea of anything...
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