Getting Started: Clicker Training for Birds

Good book, easy to read

as described

Includes comprehensive general parrot care and behavior needed to click train a parrot to do tricks. Can't understand how to approach clicker training with your bird if you don't understand it's behavior. The book even has a small write-up on how to teach your pet bird to go potty in a designated area. Now I know reading how to do that in a book and actually managing to teach it to a parrot are two different things but I hope to success. Maybe I can makeup my how trick and teach those birds how to deposit their empty seed hulls in a waste bin!It's a lengthy book but nicely written and more handy than searching YouTube for the different topics it teaches.

The author explains everything very well. So well detailed, structured and so easy to read at the same time!!Chapter 4 (How Learning Takes Place), Chapter 7 (Clicker Training Basics), Chapter 8 (Prop Behaviors) and Chapter 9 (Non-prop Behaivors) are worth reading to all clicker trainers of any kind of animal.Among the "clicker books" i have bought (for dogs, cats, ....) I haven't found any so complete and well structured when describing how "clicker training" is placed among all Learning methods!! Plus Chapter 7 gives a very well description of how to prepare any "training plan" and its diary!! :)I got the book, coz when I was a kid I used to had parakeets and tried training them (unsuccessfully), and now that through cats I've discovered "clicker training" and Karen Prior, I wanted to see and "dream" what could be achieved with Birds. And I admit i have been DELIGHT by the mentioned chapters!! I have found them very usefull to create my cats' Training Plan Diary. "ESKERRIK ASKO / Thank you very much" to the author and to Karen Pryor for putting all the Clicker Training related things together.

This book is mostly about behavior in parrots. There is a lot of good information on that subject but not enough on the clicker training which is the reason I bought the book. Still, there's enough to give you the idea of how and why it works to make it worthwhile reading. What I would rather have seen is a book that concentrated on just the clicker training aspect.I think for a new bird owner this would be a good book to read. If you've had birds for a long time, like I have, you've probably read or you've learned by trial and error most of the behavior stuff already. The clicker training part was new to me and I have enough information to get started but I still have a lot of questions. I wish I could recommend another book on the subject, but I'm still looking and reading reviews here to find one. There are a lot of books about clicker training for dogs and cats but not so many for parrots. While the basic idea may be the same, parrots have their own type of personality and just the fact that they have wings, only 2 feet and a beak make it different. This book left a lot of questions still unanswered for me on clicker training.

This book is very good for learning how to build a trusting relationship with your bird--whether a parakeet or macaw. It contains a lot of information on bird behavior and how to solve some common bird problems, like screaming and plucking. I don't have any of these problems with my birds, lineolated parakeets, but wanted a few tips on how to train my birds using methods that increase trust from your birds--and this book delivers! While I had already read some books on clicker training animals, I bought this book for specifics on birds and was not disappointed. This is not really a book about teaching tricks to birds, although there are some tricks that are given as examples, but rather a foundation of the methods you can use to teach your bird anything! I would definitely recommend it to bird owners as a manual for living with birds.

It's great that clicker training has finally gone to the birds! Clicker training, indeed any training with positive reinforcement techniques, is rewarding for both you and your bird. This book is a great place to get started with training, and building a positive relationship with your bird.What many people realize after they start working with their bird is that training tricks/new behaviors offers up a whole new world of behavior for them. For you, it creates an entirely new way of interacting with and appreciating your feathered companion.You are also likely to experience a reduction in problem behavior frequency (biting, screaming, feather destruction, etc) when your bird learns new behaviors (like they can with clicker training). While this book of priceless information offers much more, a reduction in problem behaviors alone is WELL worth the investment.This book is a great guide for both beginners and experienced teacher/trainers alike.

Great book for training your birds! I appreciate the background information on training instead of just, "do this." Tells the importance of training and mental health benefits. My cockatiel asks me to start school in the morning.

I got this book to train my parent reared baby green cheek conure. When I first got him, he was totally terrified and wouldn't let me anywhere near him. Just by following the advice in the book, within a week he was stepping up and down onto my hand, would twirl around and now many months later we have moved on to lots of complicated tricks. It's great for me because he is now so well socialised but it was also great for him, as it really gives him a mental workout every day.I put it down to this book that I have a happy, well rounded little bird who is content and always excited to come out of his cage. He has no behavioral problems whatsoever (which is very common in parrots), nor does he self mutilate. We are both very happy!

This is a nice book but it is very brief so not really enough for me with my parrot. I am an experienced clicker trainer with other animals but new to parrots and found it tough at first so for me it was a good start but in the end I sorted the problems I was having myself . I feel the author could have put more in but still a nice book with good advice

Well I was really enjoying this book until I accidentally left it out in the rain, so thought I'd order it again only to realise it's gone from £14. Up to £30. Not happening. Such a shame.

very informative book, Although hubby has trained birds succesfully , I hadnt and found this book very helpfull, and informative

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