Love this video!!! I would add to not reading your bird’s body language, misreading body language. We have a tendency to misread body language, especially when it comes to so called playful behavior (like dancing, fast head movements (looking at you, macaws) talking and singing a lot, etc.) We all have to remember to read between the lines a little when it comes to body language, and also not to anthropomorphize (i.e., the human signals of discomfort and fear doesn’t necessarily translate to how parrots display fear).
When Ollie, a Ringneck, bites me I call "playtime over" and throw a blanket over myself. (Retreat) I do not speak again or react to him on the blanket. I stay put until he goes to his cage. This is at night of coarse, he puts himself to bed. The next day I act like nothing happened and everything is fine. He is always the sweetest thing after wards until it happens again. I just do the same thing. I know now he gets it! But... being a parrot he will bite again. But everytime he does i lure him back into the cage with a favorite treat he can't resist and playtime is over. I ignore him for about 20 minutes. Then going forward I act like nothing happened. He has learned not to bite. Do I think he won't again. Of course not! But I find that by retreating he learns that "Hmmm... I bite then I have lost my friends attention... which he loves 💘 🤔 Hmmm....every time I bite this happens. I like being with my person more than biting. Anyway... this is what works for me. I never raise my voice or cry out ouch! Just simply say "playtime is over" and stick to it.
Another thing to do with reinforcing biting; I had so many issues with my galah, Gary, because he seemed to prefer biting than getting sunflower seeds as a treat. So when I would train him and offer a seed, he'd bite my finger instead. I was able to minimise this by doing a treat test and finding a higher value treat that was more valuable than biting, it would also add variety and prevent boredom which leads to bites. It turns out that he likes pine nuts, pecans, walnuts, and almonds way better than sunflower seeds, and biting.
I've only been bitten once by my cockatiel, and that's when we first got her and she shot out of the box into the curtains instead of the cage, which forced me to scoop her up to plop her in. After that, though, she's never bitten me specifically because I always watch her body language very carefully when interacting with her, and don't push her when she gives me her warning signals, such as a pinned crest, open beak, or an angry squeak. If I missed those somehow, I would withdraw when she did a warning lunge, and not press her into a bite. Now she's learned that she doesn't need to bite me to get her point across, which means that the most I get from her is a light tap or squeeze when she's in a particularly bad mood. Obv. this may not fully track to larger birds, because they have bigger, more powerful bites, but responding to their first warning signals will teach them that they don't need to go directly to a bite to get what they want, which can make things more tolerable. Remember, they're trying to communicate with you in the only way they know how, so meeting them halfway is essential for avoiding mutual frustration!
Great video! Cheeky hasn't bitten me in the kitchen since! Except the one time I asked her to do a trick and she got mad at me even asking but that's separate from the food aggression lol. Always a huge learning curve with cockatoos, super informative video. I'm sure it will help so many people! 😁🤞💕
Great video. Another time a bird will unexpectedly bite is when he senses possible danger and he will bite you to say,"GO! LET'S GET GOING!" What have you been able to do when your bird is hormonal with the man who he kept attacking in your bedroom?
That is totally true! Thanks for adding! So we had to do a whole hormone overhaul. I took all my pillows off my bed whenever Bogie was out (annoying but it helped with the territorial nesting behavior) really started to change his diet (chop in the morning helped significantly) and really tried to get Bogie to sleep for 12 hours a night. I used to make bogie little nests and forts and I don't do that anymore EVER. I also had Scotty be the person who did all the fun stuff with Bogie... ie take him out of the cage, do training with him, give him treats etc, so Bogie would "like" him more haha. Often our birds have favorites because 1 person does most of the "Fun" stuff.
You had mentioned males especially get hormonal, do you think that would be a deciding factor between getting a male or female galah? I've read so many forums and almost everyone says they're pretty much identical, but do mention hormones. What would you recommend?
My conure bites because they’re nippy. I try to get him to step up, even with food motivation and he chooses to bite. It’s just a bit annoying really. Have you recall trained Bogie? I would love a video on this if you have/are in the process of training!
I once learnt that birds do not see us as one thing. We are a mishmash of foodcsource, play gym, nesting, even mate. Understanding context during behaviours is important. I don't allow birds on my head or even shoulders if they are above eye height as this reinforces that we are territory/nest and lower in bird hierarchy. Then jealous or threat from things like phones is understandable. Ie either defending territory/mate from other attention source/(weird bird that makes noises) by correcting your behaviour because your bird is the boss of you. Same principle as making bed forts.
A lot of birds bond with male or female humans, some don't like men some don't like women. Also remember that a bird bonds with just your head, not your arms legs feet. when they are on your shoulder they think they are sitting in a tree with their mate. if something irretates them they will peck or bite to get you to fly away to safety. as for your earings, they just love shiny stuff, earrrings rings bracelets etc.. they are also fearful of changes in their enviroment, hang a new picture change the color of the pillows add new furniture are all triggers for these beautiful creatures. i lived with a macaw for 15 years and others in that time. I also calmed his horomones by letting him feed me, it's kind of gross but it works at keeping him calm or less aggressive that time of year. also the ground up food, birds like to discover food on their own take peas out of the pod, shell nuts, pick corn off the cob. I think why he picks so much at his food, most peels or skins on food like the seeds and pits are toxic to them, he would eat better if he had whole food that he could eat himself. sorry to ramble, but Rufus has been gone for 10 years and I still miss him everyday. PS you have a sweet bird, try a macaw when the hormones kick in, 350 pound bite will cut you to the bone.
I actually got it from the Birdtricks nutritional feeding system. Check out the link below. There are other variations of bird chop online though if you just google it :) www.birdtricksstore.com/FlockLife BOGIETHEGALAH for 10% off
My galah cockatoo won’t stop biting every time when I let her hang out in my room fly around and when I’m laying on my bed she’s on my fan and flys on my face and bites me how do I prevent that from not happening
Please tell how to gain trust of parrot because I also have a lovebird for 1year but I did not gain trust please tell how to gain trust of birds please
I highly recommend you buy the Birdtricks beginners training course. They really outline how to effectively gain trust and train parrots through positive and negative reinforcements. This is what I used when I first got Bogie two years ago www.birdtricksstore.com/FlockLife BOGIETHEGALAH for 10% off
hi i have a perrot for seven months but not a cockatoo. but no trsut will not let me know how long it will take me to gain his trust and how i love you and bogie
I just inherited a doubled-yellow headed amazon. She's about 40 years old & she hates guys. She aggressively tries to bite my husband. She loves me, but She'll randomly bite me. It's not hard or anything. It's usually if I pick her up to put her back in her cage. I've found though that she'll come over to me wanting love & then she will rub her beak on my hand & bite me.
Great video ive been researching why my bird bites our ears. Our gracie will come when we make kissy noises to her. When she lands on our shoulder the reaction now is to cover our ears with our hands. Then she will nip fingers if she cant get our ear. When she does that i try my best not to react and place her back in on on her cage. Is there anything else i can do that will help us ? Thanks 😁😁🐦🐦🐦🐦
So idk if you can give me some tips but we got a galah from our cousin because he couldn’t take care of it and we’ve had it for maybe a couple months, I’m not sure if it’s a boy or girl tbh but it bites for seemingly no reason sometimes. I’ll be petting him just fine and he’ll put his claw up like when he wants to be picked up and when I move my arm so he can get on it he’ll bite it
I agree with the people trigger. when my family had a white cockatoo it despise me, but that's because i would shove sticks in it's large cage thinking I'm making it a step ladder, (i was 5 years old) reality was he hated me doing that, he would show anger by raising his head crest, wings and start squawking loudly whenever i approached him Very Good video keep up the work
Dogs domesticated for 30-35,000 years and cats for 10-15,000 years whereas birds have only been captivity for a about 3,000 years and during that time they weren't really pets but more show animals kept in cages. Domestication is usually done for the animals to do a job and birds were never kept for a job except to be beautiful. Birds are wild and only tamed so they bite and act out. You gotta learn their signals and respect their boundaries. I love my birds but I've had some pretty nasty bites from my amazons. One particularly bad one from my grey as she is triggered by cans. Birds are amazing but are not for everyone
My bird doesn't like the word no. Like for instance today my bird woke up on the wrong side of the cage she is 5 and very hormonal and so some days are better then others. But today I was trying to let her be out and about and she was in a bad mood my mistake already but today she tried to bite my sons switch so I got her to step up and told her no you can't bite that and then brought her over to me and told her Lulu you have to calm down today come over here. Started petting her head my son is said something so I looked at him and she literally just lunged and bit my eye. In attack mood to be honest if I hadn't jerked back and closed my eye I would be blind in that eye right now.
Oh gosh! If it makes you feel better, Bogie almost pierced my ear today... HURT LIKE HELL... I actually had to bend down and cover my head because he was attacking me. And this was caused by the fact that I was in the kitchen with his chop out... So, the switch could be a trigger and I would avoid triggers at all costs. Also, positive reinforcements work wonders on birds. So, instead of saying "no", reframe as "come here for a treat" and that was he isn't being taken away from what he wants, but he is rewarded for coming to you!
Thank you so much. My 5 month old Galah ( Chucky )is going through the biting faze. He doesn't like the word " NO". If he wants something he will NOT take NO for an answer. So it's a real challenge...
Love this video!!! I would add to not reading your bird’s body language, misreading body language. We have a tendency to misread body language, especially when it comes to so called playful behavior (like dancing, fast head movements (looking at you, macaws) talking and singing a lot, etc.) We all have to remember to read between the lines a little when it comes to body language, and also not to anthropomorphize (i.e., the human signals of discomfort and fear doesn’t necessarily translate to how parrots display fear).
YES! pinned this comment :) agree! body language needs to be a whole other video
@@flocklife Definitely! And especially for cockatoos 😂
When Ollie, a Ringneck, bites me I call "playtime over" and throw a blanket over myself. (Retreat) I do not speak again or react to him on the blanket. I stay put until he goes to his cage. This is at night of coarse, he puts himself to bed. The next day I act like nothing happened and everything is fine. He is always the sweetest thing after wards until it happens again. I just do the same thing. I know now he gets it! But... being a parrot he will bite again. But everytime he does i lure him back into the cage with a favorite treat he can't resist and playtime is over. I ignore him for about 20 minutes. Then going forward I act like nothing happened. He has learned not to bite. Do I think he won't again. Of course not! But I find that by retreating he learns that "Hmmm... I bite then I have lost my friends attention... which he loves 💘 🤔 Hmmm....every time I bite this happens. I like being with my person more than biting. Anyway... this is what works for me. I never raise my voice or cry out ouch! Just simply say "playtime is over" and stick to it.
Can never have enough educational vids on parrot biting :) really enjoyed this
We all need more parrot education right?? me included :)
@@flocklife and the thumbnail 😂🤣👍
My galah peanut is the exact same I say no he bites. He's so spoilt 🙄. But he is amazing the love I get is amazing he's hard work but so worth it
Agreed :)
You have great patience.
Another thing to do with reinforcing biting; I had so many issues with my galah, Gary, because he seemed to prefer biting than getting sunflower seeds as a treat. So when I would train him and offer a seed, he'd bite my finger instead. I was able to minimise this by doing a treat test and finding a higher value treat that was more valuable than biting, it would also add variety and prevent boredom which leads to bites.
It turns out that he likes pine nuts, pecans, walnuts, and almonds way better than sunflower seeds, and biting.
That is awesome I love hearing that the treat test showed positive results
I've only been bitten once by my cockatiel, and that's when we first got her and she shot out of the box into the curtains instead of the cage, which forced me to scoop her up to plop her in. After that, though, she's never bitten me specifically because I always watch her body language very carefully when interacting with her, and don't push her when she gives me her warning signals, such as a pinned crest, open beak, or an angry squeak. If I missed those somehow, I would withdraw when she did a warning lunge, and not press her into a bite. Now she's learned that she doesn't need to bite me to get her point across, which means that the most I get from her is a light tap or squeeze when she's in a particularly bad mood. Obv. this may not fully track to larger birds, because they have bigger, more powerful bites, but responding to their first warning signals will teach them that they don't need to go directly to a bite to get what they want, which can make things more tolerable. Remember, they're trying to communicate with you in the only way they know how, so meeting them halfway is essential for avoiding mutual frustration!
Great video! Cheeky hasn't bitten me in the kitchen since! Except the one time I asked her to do a trick and she got mad at me even asking but that's separate from the food aggression lol. Always a huge learning curve with cockatoos, super informative video. I'm sure it will help so many people! 😁🤞💕
Cheeky is a great name for a parrot I must say 😂
Hey you are becoming better at making videos
thank you! It's a learning curve :) appreciate the comment
Hi I love bogi, I was just wondering what his favourite food is?.XOXO
Such a helpful video! 💕
I'm so glad :) thanks for watching
Thank you you explained a lot I have a 1-year-old cockatoo it's a female and it's been real Moody lately
Great video. Another time a bird will unexpectedly bite is when he senses possible danger and he will bite you to say,"GO! LET'S GET GOING!" What have you been able to do when your bird is hormonal with the man who he kept attacking in your bedroom?
That is totally true! Thanks for adding! So we had to do a whole hormone overhaul. I took all my pillows off my bed whenever Bogie was out (annoying but it helped with the territorial nesting behavior) really started to change his diet (chop in the morning helped significantly) and really tried to get Bogie to sleep for 12 hours a night. I used to make bogie little nests and forts and I don't do that anymore EVER. I also had Scotty be the person who did all the fun stuff with Bogie... ie take him out of the cage, do training with him, give him treats etc, so Bogie would "like" him more haha. Often our birds have favorites because 1 person does most of the "Fun" stuff.
Laughed so hard when he was going at Scotty!!!
Spring season gets crazy!
You had mentioned males especially get hormonal, do you think that would be a deciding factor between getting a male or female galah? I've read so many forums and almost everyone says they're pretty much identical, but do mention hormones. What would you recommend?
My conure bites because they’re nippy. I try to get him to step up, even with food motivation and he chooses to bite. It’s just a bit annoying really.
Have you recall trained Bogie? I would love a video on this if you have/are in the process of training!
Yeah Bogie is very well recall trained. He's probably biting because he doesn't want to be picked up for whatever reason.
I once learnt that birds do not see us as one thing. We are a mishmash of foodcsource, play gym, nesting, even mate. Understanding context during behaviours is important. I don't allow birds on my head or even shoulders if they are above eye height as this reinforces that we are territory/nest and lower in bird hierarchy. Then jealous or threat from things like phones is understandable. Ie either defending territory/mate from other attention source/(weird bird that makes noises) by correcting your behaviour because your bird is the boss of you. Same principle as making bed forts.
A lot of birds bond with male or female humans, some don't like men some don't like women. Also remember that a bird bonds with just your head, not your arms legs feet. when they are on your shoulder they think they are sitting in a tree with their mate. if something irretates them they will peck or bite to get you to fly away to safety. as for your earings, they just love shiny stuff, earrrings rings bracelets etc.. they are also fearful of changes in their enviroment, hang a new picture change the color of the pillows add new furniture are all triggers for these beautiful creatures. i lived with a macaw for 15 years and others in that time. I also calmed his horomones by letting him feed me, it's kind of gross but it works at keeping him calm or less aggressive that time of year. also the ground up food, birds like to discover food on their own take peas out of the pod, shell nuts, pick corn off the cob. I think why he picks so much at his food, most peels or skins on food like the seeds and pits are toxic to them, he would eat better if he had whole food that he could eat himself. sorry to ramble, but Rufus has been gone for 10 years and I still miss him everyday. PS you have a sweet bird, try a macaw when the hormones kick in, 350 pound bite will cut you to the bone.
Will you please share your fresh chop recipe? X
I actually got it from the Birdtricks nutritional feeding system. Check out the link below.
There are other variations of bird chop online though if you just google it :)
www.birdtricksstore.com/FlockLife
BOGIETHEGALAH for 10% off
What brand of bird seed do you use?
I don’t typically use bird seeds! I feed pellets and fresh chop as well as a bunch of dry mix ingredients ! I have been into Parrots R Us stuff
My galah cockatoo won’t stop biting every time when I let her hang out in my room fly around and when I’m laying on my bed she’s on my fan and flys on my face and bites me how do I prevent that from not happening
Please tell how to gain trust of parrot because I also have a lovebird for 1year but I did not gain trust please tell how to gain trust of birds please
I highly recommend you buy the Birdtricks beginners training course. They really outline how to effectively gain trust and train parrots through positive and negative reinforcements. This is what I used when I first got Bogie two years ago
www.birdtricksstore.com/FlockLife
BOGIETHEGALAH for 10% off
Thanks a lot for this information
hi i have a perrot for seven months but not a cockatoo. but no trsut will not let me know how long it will take me to gain his trust and how
i love you and bogie
Hi Message me on IG and I can direct you to some good which helped me :)
I just inherited a doubled-yellow headed amazon. She's about 40 years old & she hates guys. She aggressively tries to bite my husband. She loves me, but She'll randomly bite me. It's not hard or anything. It's usually if I pick her up to put her back in her cage. I've found though that she'll come over to me wanting love & then she will rub her beak on my hand & bite me.
Great video ive been researching why my bird bites our ears. Our gracie will come when we make kissy noises to her. When she lands on our shoulder the reaction now is to cover our ears with our hands. Then she will nip fingers if she cant get our ear. When she does that i try my best not to react and place her back in on on her cage. Is there anything else i can do that will help us ? Thanks 😁😁🐦🐦🐦🐦
So idk if you can give me some tips but we got a galah from our cousin because he couldn’t take care of it and we’ve had it for maybe a couple months, I’m not sure if it’s a boy or girl tbh but it bites for seemingly no reason sometimes. I’ll be petting him just fine and he’ll put his claw up like when he wants to be picked up and when I move my arm so he can get on it he’ll bite it
He’s our first big parrot we’ve had so we’re pretty new any tips would be greatly appreciated
It might be easier to DM me on instagram!
I agree with the people trigger.
when my family had a white cockatoo it despise me, but that's because i would shove sticks in it's large cage thinking I'm making it a step ladder, (i was 5 years old) reality was he hated me doing that, he would show anger by raising his head crest, wings and start squawking loudly whenever i approached him
Very Good video keep up the work
Oh i could totally see why that frightened the bird! You were so young you wouldn't have known better
Dogs domesticated for 30-35,000 years and cats for 10-15,000 years whereas birds have only been captivity for a about 3,000 years and during that time they weren't really pets but more show animals kept in cages. Domestication is usually done for the animals to do a job and birds were never kept for a job except to be beautiful. Birds are wild and only tamed so they bite and act out. You gotta learn their signals and respect their boundaries. I love my birds but I've had some pretty nasty bites from my amazons. One particularly bad one from my grey as she is triggered by cans. Birds are amazing but are not for everyone
My bird doesn't like the word no. Like for instance today my bird woke up on the wrong side of the cage she is 5 and very hormonal and so some days are better then others. But today I was trying to let her be out and about and she was in a bad mood my mistake already but today she tried to bite my sons switch so I got her to step up and told her no you can't bite that and then brought her over to me and told her Lulu you have to calm down today come over here. Started petting her head my son is said something so I looked at him and she literally just lunged and bit my eye. In attack mood to be honest if I hadn't jerked back and closed my eye I would be blind in that eye right now.
Oh gosh! If it makes you feel better, Bogie almost pierced my ear today... HURT LIKE HELL... I actually had to bend down and cover my head because he was attacking me. And this was caused by the fact that I was in the kitchen with his chop out... So, the switch could be a trigger and I would avoid triggers at all costs. Also, positive reinforcements work wonders on birds. So, instead of saying "no", reframe as "come here for a treat" and that was he isn't being taken away from what he wants, but he is rewarded for coming to you!
1st view
What kind of parrot is that hes gorgeous
Wait I meant cockatoo
Thank you so much. My 5 month old Galah ( Chucky )is going through the biting faze. He doesn't like the word " NO". If he wants something he will NOT take NO for an answer. So it's a real challenge...
oh i know how that goes 😂😂😂 we have to try to out smart them! and not take things personally