Birds

Training

Training advice for birds, written from real experience.

Training

How to teach your bird to talk

Plenty of people buy a budgie or cockatiel hoping for a chatty companion and end up with a bird that only whistles. Here is how talking actually happens, which birds are realistic candidates, and the patient method that works.

Tom Reeves

Training

How to potty train your bird

Birds cannot be litter trained the way a cat can, but most can learn to go on cue and hold it until they reach a spot you chose. Here is how the method actually works.

Tom Reeves

Training

How to get your bird to trust you and step up

You cannot rush a bird into liking you. Here is how to build real trust with a nervous or new parrot, at its pace, and teach the step-up that everything else is built on.

Tom Reeves