Why Birds Bite

bird bite

Birds bite.  Understanding why birds bite, is the first step to stop biting.  A close encounter with a bird’s beak at some point, is the one thing I can usually guarantee a bird’s owner.  That and a close encounter with bird poop.  They are the two things a bird owner should expect.  That’s the bad…

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How to Control Bird Hormones

hormones

Bird Hormones get blamed for a lot of undesirable behaviours in our pet birds.  From biting, to regurgitating – it’s easy to shrug off unwanted aggression as simply being due to the time of the year.  The reality though?  Hormones are a complex behavioural topic and there’s a lot of misinformation about them out there.…

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Training Lorikeets

Training Lorikeets

Can You Train Lorikeets? Training lorikeets is often considered to be harder than other parrots.  The main reason for this is the difficulty in finding the right training treat for them.  The average pet parrot will happily take a seed or a nut as a reward for an offered behaviour, but seeds and nuts are…

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Why Name a Bird Training Company “Works for Birds”?!??

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Bird Trainer – Melbourne might have been a better name? No I wasn’t drunk name brainstorming when I came up with “Works For Birds”.  I really did try to find a name that said: bird behaviourist, bird trainer, even trains chickens, a lot of parrot training, fixes problem behaviours, stops screaming, stops biting, stops plucking.…

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