A professional in animal behavior has created an easy-to-read
step-by-step guide that uses positive reinforcement for
teaching your parrot acceptable behavior. This book will
help you deal with screaming, biting, feather-picking, bonding,
and other difficult parrot behaviors. Chapters include Preparing
the Companion Parrot Owner, Screaming, Biting, Bonding to
One Person, Cage Bound Bird, and Feather Picking.
Training is a form of teaching. The companion parrot learns
when the trainer positively reinforces (or rewards) each
small step the subject takes towards the desired behavior.
Using the principles described in training, it becomes easy
to teach birds what is the desired response. The beauty
of training using positive reinforcement is that it works!
In this book the author prepares the trainer in the first
chapter. She then describes some typical problem behavior
scenarios experienced by companion parrot owners. She then
provides an explanation as to why the behavior may be occurring
and offers a step-by-step explanation of how to address
the problem behavior using training techniques based on
positive reinforcement.
Barbara Heidenreich has been a professional in the field
of animal behavior since 1990. After receiving her Bachelor
of Science degree in Zoology she began her career teaching
birds to present natural behaviors in zoos. In her fourteen
years of working for various zoos, companies, and as an
independent consultant, Barbara has been involved in the
production of over fifteen different free flight bird presentations.
Currently the President Elect of the International Association
of Avian Trainers and Educators she is now a private animal
training consultant working with zoological parks, nature
centers, and the companion parrot community. Barbara hopes
everyone can experience that truly rewarding relationship
that can happen when animals are trained using positive
reinforcement.
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