What is a husbandry behavior and why train it? I think of it as the difference between fighting with your cohabitants over little behaviors and coming to an agreement over mutually beneficial behaviors. These behaviors are important whether we are talking to companion parrot lovers...
The concept of leaving your parrot flighted or clipping its wings is a huge topic with much debate. There are many opinions going both ways based on health, safety, welfare, and psychological benefits...
In this broad conversation, Paige Davis, a curator at the World Bird Sanctuary in St. Louis, Missouri, and I sit down and talk about bird of prey training, falconry, species differences, weight management, and social media. We covered a lot of ground when it comes...
You know I love a good myth-buster series. At the risk of going down the road of talking about what people do wrong instead of how to do it right, we look at a few practices that circulate raptor training circles in both falconry and...
There are lots of myths and easily perpetuated narratives about how we should care for and manage our parrots and their behavior. Many of these narratives are not rooted in science or academic information but something that is worse (eep! sorry scientists): that which looks...
Anthropomorphism is assigning human like qualities to non human things. This can be animals, planets, plants, even computers. Anthropomorphism isn’t all bad, but it’s important to understand how it influences things like our conservation choices (choosing the cute animal over the less cuddly one, regardless...
In this episode, we speak frankly about death and the loss of an animal. We talk about the body’s response to emotional pain and research that discusses animal-human relationships. We also discuss some complicated topics about empathy, accountability, and responsibility in the animal world, for...
In this broad reaching podcast, we tackle the problematic way we solve behavior problems that is still so prevalent on community forums in social media. This podcast gives three important questions for you to ask and enact right away that will help you vet and...
Owls are iconic, mysterious, and deeply ingrained in our culture. They make important conservation ambassadors, albeit challenging ones. Our Masterclass on How to Raise an Ambassador Owl focuses on how to work through the specifics of these challenges as well as why this makes a good...
Losing trust is a big deal. It can lead to our parrots spending more time away from us, even in their cages or aviaries in order to bite us less. It can make us do what seem to the outsider as funny things, like wear...