What NOT to Do When Training a Scared Bird and What to Do Instead! | How to Tame a Parrot

Many of you guys have been asking me to do a video on taming birds, so here it is! Here are some of the do’s and don’ts for taming a skittish bird.
DISCLAIMER: Yes, my birds are already tame. This is not a full step-by-step tutorial video. The birds are showing some demonstrations so you can see parts of the process. This video focuses on things you should and should not do when taming your bird.

🦜MY FLOCK🦜
💙Bluebell - sky blue budgie
💛Ducky - lutino cockatiel
💚Kermit - yellow-sided green cheek conure
🤍Pearl - albino budgie

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[AM-xfmu]

Finally someone good again at making bird videos, theres not a lot of birdyoutubers anymore

[annoyingdog]

My grandpa got my bird really bonded to him. He was able to put his hand on her back and cuddle her in FOUR DAYS. He is magical.
Edit: Holy crap thanks for the likes-

[yelkayap]

i've been doing everything wrong😭 thanks for the advice🥺 my dad found a little baby olive-backed sunbird which was left to die after a typhoon. she was surrounded by ants and was not moving. thankfully my dad took her in and gave me the responsibility to take care of her. it has now been a week and im still learning how to take care of her since i never had a pet bird. she's doing very well and has since gotten better. she already knows how to fly but I still have to hand feed her. thanks again!

[margheritasbudgiesanddrawi]

NEVER look your bird in eyes. A professional parrot trainer told me that it might scare the bird because predators do it in nature.

[clumpofdoghair]

Me:-opens cage-

My birds: -show signs of not wanting to continue-

Me:ok then

[drawbird]

The way the bird slid down her hair at the begining

[scenecat]

My bird is super smart, so he knows when it's time to train. He doesn't actually *like* to train, so he pretends to preen when I get near him. (Silly boy! Love him!)

[ivantheloser]

So— this is extremely helpful!! I’ve had my bird for a while (more than a year.) I feel so bad for her, because I completely neglected her. At first I paid attention to her, but the thing is, when we first got her I immediately gave her attention, and not giving her any time to get used to or even see her environment. I made so many mistakes and I feel horrible. I thought I did enough research but I was wrong. Because of my inexperienced self, I caused her to completely not trust me. I want to start bonding with her again, but its really hard to, because she’s horrified of me. Any tips are appreciated!! 🥺💖

[scarlettfarrey]

I got birds in April 2020, and sister, your channel was a lifeline and now I have two sweet cuddly cockatiels who used to bite my everything

[burneraccountpls]

I was doing it all wrong! 😬 Thanks so much

[Pixiewolf]

I need to give my bird more time, some people (especially my grandfather) tell me to just stick my hand in the cage until he’s not scared. They think I’m more afraid of the bird than it is him. Ducky is terrified of hands and foreign objects (think it’s because he was caught by nets a couple times to get to the bird shop and to come home with me. It upset me a little bit when the lady did that.)

The lady also tried to tell me that the cage I got him was too big and tried to get me to buy one of those small house shaped ones.

He already panics with my hand in the big cage that he can get away in! A smaller one would have been worse and forceful!

He was parent raised and is currently 8 months old. He tolerates me by his cage but sometimes I feel like I should take a step back for a bit since his crest is always up when I’m in my room.

I sometimes feel like he hates me (anxiety being a jerk), but I know he’s just scared. He’s never bit or attacked me, just runs/ flies to the other side of the cage and hisses at me. YES, I’m aware that hissing means he will bite if I don’t back off.. But when I Change his food and water bowls and put a stub of millet in his bowl, he never does. He just lets me know that he’s still afraid of me and to slow down.

It’s not that I’m a afraid of him but a little paranoid about what I’m possibly doing wrong, if I’m scaring him or feeding him too much. I keep his bowl full. I need to get more toys for him but like I said before, he thinks it’s coming after him. He doesn’t like me changing his food and water, he only barely accepts millet spray. Doesn’t eat from my hand though which is understandable.

He’s precious, but I feel like the time I took for research has no meaning anymore. I felt prepared. I felt ready, and am still willing to keep doing research, it’s just hard when what you’ve read or watched on video is not displayed by your bird ^^,

Maybe he’s picking up on my anxiety of scaring him whenever I do food/water changes? He starting to see me less of a threat though since I’ve started opening his cage door for the days I’m home all day. I hope I’m on the right track ;-;

Still the hand in or around the cage is a big no-no.

[lizakrocksakame]

My budgie died from a stroke and a stomach issue, the vet was closed yesterday and we were supposed to take her today...too late 😭

[ahmedfadi]

oh my!!! i am putting my hand to it's chest, i shouldnt have done that!!! thanks for the advice

[jordyn]

i feel bad for watching this video after i scared my birb by sticking my hand in his cage.
:( but at now i know the correct way to train and bond with my birb thanks to u!

[BugzysEvilDeeds]

Both of my birds flew up, out of the desert, and picked me. My ringneck came about 4 years ago. He love crawling all over me, but he won't let fingers near him. While he's standing on my finger, I can pet his toe with my thumb.

[flazenpinero]

I have 3 birds in total. 2 cockatiels and a budgie. My first cockatiel was from a pet store simply bcos I felt really bad at her condition being in a small cage. Star her name was very afraid in the beginning, but I had zero experienced with bird so I simply grabbed her and bit me really hard. She refuses to step on my finger and always stay away from me BUT she loves it whenever I sing Twinkle2x Little Star to her. Then, I got another cockatiel when he was 3 weeks old only I name him Sunny. I hand-feed him until he was ready to eat on his own, taught him how to fly. He is very attached to me and thinks I am his property and I can do everything with him. I call him my shadow and tail. Then my budgie Sky is my adopted, my friend found him in their garden but couldn't find an owner so he brought it to me. Sunny follows me around the house, do crazy things with me while the other 2 would watch from a far. I decided to stop pushing the other 2 bcos they simply are afraid of me. And my Sunny took lots of my attention. Everyday it's always like this Sunny always with me, eating with my cat, following me EVERYWHERE. Sitting on my head etc... then one day, Star the pet store scared cockatiel flew on my shoulder sit there and stared at me. I was shocked & froze. Since then she copied everything Sunny does with me EXCEPT sitting on my finger. She would come face to face with just as long I don't ask her to step-up. I respected that. She sits even on my hand just not my finger. Now, Sky the budgie realizes that he is on his own most of the time and so he decided to follow me too everywhere. Come very near me when I am sitting. I realized, I need to give time and in their own accord. So picture me now whenever I am home. There are 4 creatures following me around. 3 birds and a cat. Privacy inside the bathroom flew out of the window.

[glorialopez]

oh, that's why my budgie stepped away from me, oh, thanks for teaching me
my lesson on how to gain a parrot's trust

[a-m]

I taught my bird how to shake my finger with his leg to do a little hand shake, should I stop or continue?
Edit: it’s a rainbow lorikeet

[tatteredandtorn]

My bird is scared of me, even when I try to feed him

[tartigle]

This definitely helped considering the fact I’m getting a conure this January.