Parrot Tricks: Teaching Parrots with Positive Reinforcement Kindle Edition

Overall, it's a good book.Unfortunately, the author is so totally wrong about clicker training that the way she trashes it may do a lot of harm to people for whom clicker training may work wonders.First, clicker training is not a method, it is a technique, and a clicker is a tool. The method is positive reinforcement. One trainer may prefer to use a clicker as positive reinforcement tool, and another trainer may prefer to use a whistle, or just a praise. It doesn't matter so much. What matters is positive reinforcement.Tani Robar's description of her experience with clicker training makes me think that she had negative preconceived ideas about it and was unable to overcome her negativity. It is not so much about clicker training, but more about her attitude towards it.Where Tani Robar got the idea that a bird is supposed to drop whatever it was doing and come for a treat as soon as there is a clicker sound I don't know. One of the first steps in clicker training is to teach your bird that reward may be delayed, but it is coming. My birds don't drop what they are doing, I sometimes click 2-3 times through a trick to encourage my birds. They get their jackpot treat at the end.Her technique of working with birds is good if a bird is relatively tame. It won't work if the bird has high level of anxiety, scared of human hands, etc. But clicker training is a very successful technique to use with anxious birds.And so on.If someone wants break descriptions, suggestions, know how to divide breaks into smaller steps, this book is good. But don't believe a single word the author says about clicker training. This is where she is totally wrong.

I'm not into show tricks, but this book teaches you more than that - it teaches you how to train your bird and how to train important skills to make their life easier (following a target, accepting nail trimming, how to not freak out at the vet, etc).Parrots like to be entertained and have attention, and naturally would forage for their food so they rarely get it without work in nature - the same way some dogs love to learn new tricks because it is a bonding moment, some parrots do too. If so, you and your bird will enjoy the more 'fun' tricks in the book.

This book gives clear instructions for training, and best of all, gives you prerequisites so that you don't start doing things that you and your bird are not ready for. It is good at exposing not only the differences, but also the likenesses of all hook bills from Parakeets to Macaws which I really appreciate. I've learned a lot about just basic bird husbandry from this book and am thrilled to have it and hopeful that my wonderful cockatiel Levin appreciates it too.

A good book for teaching your bird to do tricks. Easy to do.

What i read so far is helpful

This book is okay. It does go into more detail than many, which I appreciate. And it has several tricks. She spends a lot of time trashing the use of clickers, which is what I had started just prior to purchasing this book. But if you can get beyond that, it is useful.

This book is great if you want to learn to teach your bird a lot of tricks. Some are like proffesional tv tricks with special props and some you can do at home. I am still reading the book. I do like it. It has a vast number of tricks you can pick from to train your bird.

So easy to read! Made me motivated to try several different tricks. My cockatoo is hard to pleased but sometime he will get along with new tricks

It's just what I needed. Clear guidelines to interactive activities for parrots. As it goes step by small step and explains why it's best to do comands the way it suggests makes sense for parrot and companion carer to develop a bond as well as an inspiring education and entertainment fun.

Love this book. It takes you through training step by step, using only positive reinforcement to achieve results (i.e. rewarding your bird for getting it right, not punishing it for getting it wrong!)

Great book,came on time packed well very informative

Really good clear instructions and the theory behind the training. I trained a parrot to eave, turn around, target and bow within a couple of weeks, with only one training session, sometimes not even that, a day. Great book, highly recommend.

Not fully started using it yet as waiting for my boy to settle a bit. Useful information though so will be using it constantly in the near future.