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5 BIRD BONDING AND TAMING MISTAKES! (Budgie, cockatiel, conure, macaw) | BirdNerdSophie
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- čas přidán 14. 08. 2024
- Whether you have a budgie, cockatiel, conure, macaw or any other parrot, we all want to bond and tame our pet birds, but there are easy common mistakes a lot of people make along the way. When a bird comes home for the first time, they can be scared, so make sure you avoid these parrot taming and bonding mistakes. Building a bond on trust will give you a much better relationship!
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I wish EVERY bird owner would watch this before bringing home their new flock member!! So many people the exact opposite of these tips and it breaks my heart. Thanks for making bird lives better with this kind of content!
Thank you so much 🥰💙
Thank you Sophie! I've spent 3 months bonding with my cockatiel and think it's time to start training now! I think a lot can be said for doing a slow bonding process with a rescue bird. Wonderful video!!
Thank you for watching! 💙 There's no need rush with these little creatures, and rushing doesn't make someone a better parrot trainer! To have Kipling a year after he came home now laying in my hand is a huge accomplishment :)
just so much talent here
Thank you 💙😊
Finally! You are the first I heard to talk against clipping. People have been doing this for so long, it's just accepted. I say it's abuse. When a bird is growing up. flying is part of their developmental stage, just like a baby learning to walk. More people like you should be promoting non-clipping! ❤🩹 🐦
Thank you 💙 I truly hope it gets phased out, it’s a bizarre practice that makes everyone it claims to help worse!
Your birds grooming each other @ 6:22 onwards is so adorbs 🥹
Thank you! They do love to cuddle 🥰
I learn so much from you Sophie ( and David) thank you. Every time I am ready to give up on my grumpy old men (cockatiels that I rescued) I re watch your videos and start over.
Happy to help! 🥰🦜
Your videos have helped me so much with bonding with my conure and making sure she was comfortable as she could be in the first few weeks!
That is awesome! Thanks for watching 🥰
@@BirdNerdSophie no problem! I’m now using your videos to teach her how to wave! She’s doing really good so far
You simply the best channel out there🤩🤩
Thank you so much 😀
This is so dope 😍 Oh wow absolute awesome video
Thank you 💙😊
Yeah people need to actually respect animals which won't let you cripple their wings. Imagine doing this to a kid- suddenly it's bad. Human convenience is nothing against a bird's (or any other animal's) bodily autonomy.
Completely agree! 💙
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I want you on the cover of magazines 😁
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The very first interactions we have with our new babies are so crucial. Can start the relationship off good or bad. Honestly the work I put into bonding with Juno was some of the best times with her. Makes our relationship 100X better too.
Totally agree! It makes such a difference to take the extra time 💙
They look so cute preening at 4:30
They love their cuddles 🥰
👧 the best channel!!!!
Thank you 💙😊
This is really good advice and seems non generic and empathic. I'm researching Cockatiels rn because I may get two in the future and I've heard a lot of things but this sounds very reasonable.
Thank you so much for your kind words! 😊
I admire you so much 🥰
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You are so unique 💕
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Wow So helpful! Your videos are my number one place for bird videos 🙂🙂🙂
Thank you so much for watching 🥰
Thx for this video 💕
You're so welcome! 😊
Looking forward to the next video 🤗
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I always learn so much from your videos. Thank you!!!
Thank you for watching 😊
Perfect timing!!! I just brought my baby home a few days ago and I've been taking it super slow. Thanks for the video!!
I’m glad you enjoyed the video and congrats on your new feathered baby 😊💙
The video is perfect 👌
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This is so DOPE 🤗
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it only took me about 2 weeks of showing my bird some love and food for him to start asking for cuddles and head scratches, the people i got him from didn't have him for very long so his wings were still clipped from the pet store but he's finally growing the flight feathers back and it's beautiful. trust is everything with them
my pfp is my baby, his name is Toby and i'm proud to say i have successfully earned his trust and become his favorite person🥰
edit: i made sure not to rush him and let him make the decision to take treats and step up. if anything i feel like he was rushing me lol. i was not prepared for him to trust me that quickly and one day i had my hand on the cage offering him a treat and he walked up and snuggled up to my hand
Sounds like you’ve done so well with him 😍
@@BirdNerdSophie he has come so far, he used to be terrified of hands but now he constantly wants me to hold him. He tolerates my family and bites anyone new tho bc ppl tend to try to pet him, which I tell them not to do but they try anyway
Always the best from you ☝
I appreciate that 😊
So inspired 🤩 yesss indeed
Thank you 💙😊
I too hate clipping the wings but living in India and in hot wheather with no AC and cooler also with fan running, living with big family is very difficult to save them from moving fan blades with having closed encounter with one of my Cockatiel I got my bird's wings clipped and I still regret but done for it's safety only 😢 I do understand it's not good all but sometimes circumstances makes it
I totally get where you’re coming from, but it might be a better option to have a large cage for your bird, and have structured quality out of cage time where you turn the fan off for. A period of time so they can be out! We have to do this during heatwaves here as we have no AC and obviously can’t have the windows open when the birds ar dour!m
When a bird’s wings are clipped, they can still fly, but with no skill or control so it actually puts them at more risk of injury and crash landing!
@birdnerdsophie First I would like to appreciate your work and effort and great knowledge. Second I greatly agree with you as you are pro n much experienced than me/us but as I told you in my previous comment that my female cockatiel had a narrow escape (hit a little) from the fan and I got panic so I took the decision to clip otherwise I am against it. I got her clipped twice as she still could fly very well even with clipped wings once and able to sit on fan but that time after that incident I called my dealer to do so now she's not able fly properly now I regret alot 😥😔. My male one has already clipped when I got him and he was 2 months now he's 6 months and able to fly much better after his 1st molting I guess. Now I have to wait for her molting as she's 3 months old only, and I won't clipped theirs again ever or any bird I'll get and InShaAllah once I get financially stable I'll provide them bigger cage
I just bought a 10-week old sun conure. I had been in talks with the breeder and interacting with her via text messages the entire time. She never once mentioned that she would be clipping the birds wings. I purchased the bird anyways. I was already attached from pictures and videos. I just feel so badly. I think it should have been my choice. I'm trying to make the best of the situation now.
It’s so sad how they insist on doing it whether you want it or not 😟 but they will grow back in time!
Thank you Sophie for this video. I am currently working through one of my Budgies not wanting to step up when in the cage. She is scared for whatever reason. So I always take it slow and talk to her as well as offer millet. She will really only step up when she’s on her training perch. Need to think of something to encourage her. Since losing my oldest Budgie nearly a month ago it is harder to train. Probably still mourning her. Still we will work on it and slowly get there
Thanks for watching 💙😊 you could try targeting her closer and adding a perch on the inside of the cage door so she has somewhere easy to step up from!
@@BirdNerdSophie Thank you 😊 yes, that is the plan, perches. Although she is not targeting in the cage for whatever reason, outside yes but inside she is like another bird. I added a perch that comes across the door opening, one little flat perch on the door and another short stick perch just by the side of the door to give her opportunity to choose. She is more likely to hide in the corner when I open the door and sit like a frozen statue. I will leave her for a bit (until she shakes out her feathers, that usually means the mood has changed a bit) and then show her millet and she eventually reaches to take a grain. After a while she will follow the millet and hop on my finger and lets me carry her out. Just need to find what it is she is so worried about
I think I am in love 🥰♥️
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I have got a couple of problems. I have got two Cockateils, I got the Male, Buddy first and a few Months later I got a Female, Holly. I let them both out of their cages every day, but they both fight with each other. Especially Buddy he can be quite a bully to Holly. Also when I have them out, they poop everywhere. Is there anything I can do to stop them pooping on the carpet, or on the chairs and especially on me. I always have to do a lot of washing because of them pooping on me? Apart from that, they are both beautiful and I wouldn't want to be without them both now. ❤😊
Unfortunately you can't stop them pooping as it's part of their natural biology and digestive system When you try and potty train a bird, it can cause so many problems!
@@BirdNerdSophieok well thanks for your info Sophie. I guess that I knew that really, but I was hoping for some miracle solution, lol. 😆 😂❤️
Could someone answer a question for me, please? I've been clicker training my quaker, but I'm obviously using a vocal cue as well, as my bird now says "good boy" whenever he hears the clicker! Is this going to be a problem and potentially confuse him? Should I either try to not speak, or drop the clicker and rely on the vocal cue? Although Pippin is my first parrot, and I'm new to using a clicker, I come from a family of dog trainers and do have a basic understanding of training principles, I'm just worrying about the details, TIA!
Hey! It’s not a huge issue, but it’s better to use one or the other in formal training sessions! Or change what you say vocally as folks form of praise, such as good boy, nice , alright, yes etc so it’s different each time to differentiate between the clicker and verbal praise to make your training more precise 😊
@@BirdNerdSophie Thanks so much for your reply, that's really helpful :)
Hey birdnerdsophie! I adopted my cockatiel from a situation and they previously clipped the wings.... She or he, is not the friendliest but we are working on that thanks to your helpful videos. Will her wings, confidence, & trust grow back do you think?
I was told my bird is about 5 years old so I believe we have plenty of time to bond.
Yes absolutely, it will take time, patience and consistency but you’ll get there 🥰
Just leave your hand in the cage for 15-20 mins at a time a few times a day, just keep a millet in your hand and keep close as you can to bird with out freaking it out. Eventually they will get used to your hand and this method works really fast even on untamed birds 3-4 days as long as you do this multiple times a day not just ONCE a day.
It can definitely help in combination with different training techniques 😊
tHANKS Sophie! I got my 3 month old conure about a week ago. His wings are clipped so badly. Is there anything I can do to help him? I have perches everywhere = he loves hanging from the top of the cage.
You can build up his muscle strength but doing very short hop recalls 😊
clipping wings is such a terrible thing! I hate it!
I hope more people realise that it will make taming and bonding harder!
Yes!! And also declawing cats!! People are obsessed with hurting their pets for convenience
I just got my second cockatiel and he's clipped and I'm so worried about it affecting bonding :( especially since my other bird is very much flighted. I also think they may have clipped him too short because when he falls/jumps off of my hand he just falls to the floor. No gliding at all. I can tell the poor little guy is a bit off balance too. So it's combining to him being a little wry. He does want me to hold him but he seems scared to not feel absolutely solid where he's sitting. Like his favorite perch in his temp cage is a flat perch and I think it's because he doesn't have to worry about falling.
Also I had to restrain myself SO HARD the other day. Because the lady at the local pet store we got this new bird from was talking about clipping. Encouraging that I keep him clipped because I asked if they could not trim up his wings (he was already clipped I just didn't want him to like "touch them up" before pick up). My son overheard more than I realized. Because my first bird, Jade, was flying around and my son made the comment that we should clip Jade so he is safe. [Long story short, this is actually my 3rd bird. My second was unhealthy when I got him without me realizing it and he sadly passed away after 5 days so my son is HYPER vigilant about our animals being safe cause he's scared they will die. So when he brought it up it's because he was genuinely scared for the safety of our birds. Now that he knew what it was and heard it being toted as a form of safety he was convinced we needed to.]
So I had to have a conversation with my 7 YEAR OLD about why it's not nice to clip your bird unless they have a medical issue that necessitates it. The example I gave him for an equivalent though was himself instead of an animal. My son and I are both Autistic. Autistic kids tend to wander. When he was about 4 he opened the front door and we didn't realize it and went outside by himself. Luckily we live at a dead end and my neighbors stopped him before he was able to get to a busy street. Scared the hell out of us.
I told him that story and said. "When you wandered off it REALLY scared mommy and daddy. You weren't safe. Just like Jade wouldn't be safe if he flew outside. Would you rather we cut off your legs to keep you safe? Or find ways to keep you safely inside?" He obviously said he wouldn't want to lose his legs. So I told him that just like when that happened. And mommy and daddy got new locks he couldn't open. Fenced in our backyard so that he could go outside when he wanted without supervision (and so negate the want to go out front). We have to do the same for our birds. We have to be careful. We have to make sure we never open the front door when the birds are out. We have to make sure they can't get to rooms that aren't safe. Because just like our legs are how we get around, a birds wings are how they get around. I asked him if he would be sad if he couldn't run, jump, or walk anymore. He said yes and I said "And it's the same thing for our birds. Just like you would be sad without your legs, they are sad without their wings."
He may be a little unsure, but he can learn to trust you and know that you will keep him safe and listen to him!
Thank you for sharing your story with your son, that’s a great way to get the message across!
How early is considered “rushing bonding?” I’ve had my cockatiel for 5 months now and she is still scared of me regardless of me respecting her time and space. Am I rushing?
You can absolutely start bonding work, just go at their pace and be mindful of body language cues!
Keep it up 😉
Thank you 💙😊
Yesssssss a new video ❤❤❤❤
Thank you for watching 💙😊
@BirdNerdSophie hey do you have any tips for friendly bird interactions?
@@TheMotherofBirds in what way? 😊
@@BirdNerdSophie I have 2 cockatiels and a pineapple conure. I let them play ontop of their cages together. But sometimes my conure bullies one of my cockatiels a little to much. How can I get them to play a little nicer together.
@@TheMotherofBirds have you seen @theparrotteacher ‘a video on bonding two birds? Could be useful 💙
Hey Sophie. I've been spending about the last week trying to bond my two ties. It's going pretty good I think, but I am running into a problem.
How do I work with a clipped bird when one is not clipped? Jade is flighted and always has been. Jasper is clipped and I didn't have a choice in it. He's never known flight.
So this situation is happening where Jasper has seen Jade fly and so he keeps trying to fly. It's making handling him VERY difficult. I've already had a situation where he had a fall and favored a leg for about 4 days.
How do I handle and train a clipped bird safely? I'm so scared he is going to seriously injure himself at some point while I wait for his wings first molt.
You can build up his flight muscles slowly with controlled and trained recall and stationing - I have a video on this and you can start with very short hops and slowly change the angles so he has to fly slightly up or down to build up more strength 😊
@@BirdNerdSophie Thank you so much for the tips! What's the name of the video so I can find it?
@@jessirarara here’s the link: czcams.com/video/CgZAFpzr2rk/video.html
This is off topic but can a teen get a cockatiel?
I think it’s important to recognise how much your life might change growing up, maybe moving our, travelling, going to college etc, and whether a high maintenance pet would work on those scenarios!
@@BirdNerdSophie Thank you so much 😁
got my budgie to step up after 4 years but my fingers are sore any ideas?
That’s great! What makes them sore?
Her biteing me
@@jenschuh8548 I’d recommend filming a training session so you can see things from another perspective to see what might be going on!
Thank🎉you
@@BirdNerdSophie I’mreacting to her biting me
I agree with you, but to a certain extent.in essence, a whole process of domestication boils down to the fact that the bird as soon as possible begins to belive that its owner is not a threat, and that nothing bad will happen to it.if the birds have wings during the process of domestication ,they will then run away and whole the process will take much longer,however, if you cut off its wings,the bird will not be able to fly away and will be forced to be with you, certanily not by their will,but they will be.and it that process, the bird will very quickly realize that you are not a threat to it and that there is no reason to run away from you, and thus the taming process will take much faster and the bird will love you over time,much faster than with wings and begin able to fly away.and the wings will certinly grow.only pure logic is enough for that,and not to knew parrots in their soul.and what i have written to youis the living truth,not my opinion.and to emphasize that i also do not agreewoth cutting the wings of birds, but only in the case of domesticitation,wich will last much shorter in that case, and only for that time.greetings
It’s funny you think that butchering your birds wings is a great way to earn trust and teach them you won’t do anything to harm them. The ignorant hypocrisy in this comment is astounding. Cutting off their feathers makes you a threat. Forcing your bird to struggle just because you’re lazy and want fast results isn’t taming or bonding. It’s abuse. BFFR.
Parrots are not domestic and will never be domestic. To be a domestic animal
Means they have a job and purpose that serves us. Parrots are not this. They are companions. But that doesn’t mean they are domestic.
@@beaniebaby7075 beauty, if you can tell me something supported by arguments and logic, i would be glad to read it, but you dont have this claim of mine, which is true, i know that very well, so i wouldnt enter into a discussion with you that is based on mere insults and enumerating nonsense,this you are what you are.by the way, many greetings and let me know if you want me to tear you apart too😘
@@Grafitiislife you literally don’t know what you’re talking about lol. There are so many studies available now that PROVE how damaging clipping is to a birds emotional wellbeing as well as physical. Maybe step out of the dark ages and do some actual damn research. I’m not the educator on this page. I’m just the agro bitch that gets sick and tired of ignorant people spouting off their WRONG information.
@@Grafitiislife you cannot find and show me any scientific backing that proves cutting a birds wings is good for THEM (medical needs aside) Everything that supports wing clipping is solely for the benefit of the person.
Thx for this video 💕
You're so welcome! 😊
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