CUTE: These include behaviors that are fun and entertaining
for you and your bird. They are usually easily trained and can be useful to help you and your bird learn about training. They can also be helpful when introducing your bird to strangers. New people can cue the bird for the behavior.You can also use themfor redirecting your bird to an acceptable behavior if needed. For example if your parrot has his eye on chewing up a pen or neck- lace. They are also useful to help get a training session started and evaluate your bird’s interest in participating or getting back on track if your bird is distracted during a session.
Some Examples Include: Wave Turn Around Retrieve Dance Wings Up Talking
CORE: Core behaviors are ones that are essential to day to
day life with a parrot. Essentially these are behaviors you would expect a well behaved parrot to know. They make it easy for you to manage your bird’s location, basic activities and interactions with people throughout the day.
Some Examples Include: Targeting Step Up Step Down Step onto a Stick Go Back into the Cage Drop Items on Cue Step onto Strangers Recall (For Flighted Birds) Go to and Stay on Acceptable Play Stands Play with Toys Foraging Activities
CRITICAL: Critical behaviors are important for the health and
welfare of your parrot. Many of them, although often overlooked, are quite easy to train. Furthermore youwill be glad you did train themwhen the day comes that you need these behaviors. Stress from medical procedures can be greatly reduced or eliminated when caregivers take the time to train critical behaviors.
Some Examples Include: Step onto a Scale Accept Fluid from a Syringe Allow Nail Trims Allow Restraint in a Towel Enter/Exit a Transport Cage Recall fromVarious Heights and Angles ( For Flighted Birds)
Good Bird Inc Resources to Help you Train Cute, Core and Critical Behaviors
DVDs: • Parrot Behavior and Training: An Introduction to Training
• Training Your Parrot for theVeterinary Exam • The Basics of Training: A LiveWorkshop
Good Bird Magazine: How Did They Train That? Each issue features step by step instructions to train a new behavior.
WingNutz™Members Areas: A Good Start to a Good BirdVideo (Included in your Good Bird Magazine subscription)
The Good Bird Inc Blog: Use the search feature to find blogs on various parrot training topics.
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