Menu menu

The Groovy Bonzo will entice your Parrot to do what comes naturally, chew.  Parrots love to chew on the edgie groovy wood. They are made of softwood and allow
foraging activity by stashing delicious treats into grooved blocks for your Parrot to find.

Grapewood offers texture for better grip. These tabletop trees are perfect for small to medium size Parrots.  Some have multiple branches where toys can be added.  Each tree has a large bolt and washers.  Add a Grapewood Feeding Station (coming soon) to the base to complete this play gym.  Picture is example only.  Each tree is unique.

They look beautiful on the Acrylic Base or Parrot Tower Tray. Every tree is unique, please email for pictures of available trees.

Grapewood offers texture for better grip. These table top trees are perfect for small to medium size Parrots. They have multiple branches where toys can be added. Each tree has a large bolt and nylon washers. Add a Grapewood Feeding Station (coming soon) to the base to complete this play gym.

They look beautiful on the Acrylic Base or Parrot Tower Tray both sold separately.  Each tree is unique, please email for pictures of available trees.

Good for the Sola will keep your smaller Parrots busy with all the different soft textures. This is perfect for gentle chewers and smaller beaks. It is layered with corn husk flowers for preening, colourful balsa for chewing, palm flowers for shredding, and a sola ball and is completed with small wood beads all strung on bird-safe wire from a nickel plate pear link.

Each toy has natural parts and one of five colours.

Winter 2009

Feature Articles
This Parrot Has Become a Problem By Barbara Heidenreich
Improving your Parrot’s Visit to the Veterinarian By Alicea Schaeffer BS, RVT, CPDT, KPA CTP
Building Trust with Nuts By Chris Shank
My Parrot Doesn’t Play with Toys! He Doesn’t Need Enrichment By Robin Shewokis

Regular Features

Profile of an Animal Lover - Michele Barnes

In Memoriam – Andrew Bosman

How Did They Train That?
Stick Training your Parrot By Barbara Heidenreich

What Is Your Bird Saying? Learn to Read Bird Body Language  

Your Good Bird! Reader Success Stories
A Second Chance for a Special Senegal Parrot By Hildegard Niemann
Success with a Parent-raised Amazon Parrot By Jarmo Tuutti
Getting Started with a Foster Bird By Sue Larson

Winter 2008

Feature Articles
What’s Wrong with this Picture? Effectiveness is Not Enough By Susan G. Friedman, Ph. D
Pick a Treat. Any Treat By Barbara Heidenreich
Anything to Keep Them Busy By Kris Porter
Know your Training Food: Nuts and Seeds By Shauna Roberts
A Thankful Thanksgiving By Jamie McLeod

Regular Features

Profile of an Animal Lover
Shane Hancock

How Did They Train That? Experts Share Their Training Strategies
Admit it, you Inhaled! Training Nebulization By Barbara Heidenreich

What Is Your Bird Saying? Learn to Read Bird Body Language

Your Good Bird! Reader Success Stories
Blue By Pat Phillips
Adding Lily to the Flock By Dorothy Schwarz
Seventeen Years Young and Eager to Learn By Christie Lyons
Success in Just Four Days By Terri Thibadeaux
Step Up to Success By Joseph Acosta

Winter 2007 Feature Articles

Expanding your List of Reinforcers By Barbara Heidenreich  
Aspergillosis: The Silent Parrot Killer By Katrina Coleman 
Avian Grooming: Part 1 (Nails) By Laura Wade, DVM, Dipl. ABVP (Avian)
Parker Visits the Airport By Patricia Sund
Being the Boss Backfires By Beverly Penny

Take Flight! Travel and Leisure for the Parrot Enthusiast
One Day of Parrots in Sydney Australia By Jessie Zgurski

Regular Features

Profile of an Animal Lover – Kellye Rila

How Did They Train That? Experts Share Their Training Strategies
Training a Parrot to Bathe By Tex Gagliano

What Is Your Bird Saying? Learn to Read Bird Body Language

Your Good Bird! Reader Success Stories
Perdy Becomes a Problem (Part Two) By Dorothy Schwarz
Training a Parrot to Poop in His Cage By Rebecca Wells 
Sammy has a Set Back: Rebuilding Trust By Sue Larson
Mobbed by Multiple Cockatoos! By Gemma Dehnbostel
Petey The budgie Goes From Wild To Wonderful By Lee R. Nowell

Summer 2009

Feature Articles
Let’s get Ready to Train! By Barbara Heidenreich
How to Pet a Parrot By Barbara Heidenreich
Cockatoos in the Kitchen By Hillary Hankey
Foraging Toys on Budget By Emily Strong
Treating Avian Arthritis Naturally By Leslie Morán

Regular Features

Profile of an Animal Lover
Grace Innemee of City Parrots

Learning to Fly
Training Sedentary Parrots to Fly  By Mandy Andrea

How Did They Train That?
Training your Parrot to Recall  By Linda (Raz) Rasmussen

What Is Your Bird Saying? Learn to Read Bird Body Language  

Your Good Bird! Reader Success Stories
Training a Jackdaw with the Good Bird Inc DVDs By Grace Innemee
Addressing Screaming Problems in a Scarlet Macaw By Andrew in Australia
What I Learned from My Foster Parrots By Pat Anderson

Summer 2008

Feature Articles
Meet Einstein! The Talking Texan Parrot By Barbara Heidenreich
The Three C’s of Effective Consequences By Bob Puckett
Take Note! Training Parrots and Record-Keeping By Barbara Heidenreich
Lessons Learned Birding in Africa By Helen Dishaw
News from VogelPark - Walsrode Birdpark By Simon Bruslund Jensen

Regular Features
Profile of an Animal Lover - Smiles

TAKE FLIGHT! TRAVEL AND LEISURE FOR THE PARROT ENTHUSIAST
A Costa Rican Adventure: Part 1Breakfast with Toucans! By Jim McKendry

LEARNING TO FLY
Before and After a Flighted Parrot Escapes By Andrew Dobson

How Did They Train That? Experts Share Their Training Strategies
Training your Parrot the Emergency Recall By Barbara Heidenreich

What Is Your Bird Saying? Learn to Read Bird Body Language

Your Good Bird! Reader Success Stories
Barnaby Overcomes an Extreme Fear Response by Lisa Desatnik

Summer 2006

Feature Articles
The Success Files Addresses Biting  By S.G. Friedman, PhD and L. McGuire
Bird Flu is for the Birds By The National Avian Welfare Alliance (NAWA)
Keeping Enrichment Safe By Jan Graham
Birds as Inspiration-Nance McManus By Barbara Heidenreich.
Do Parrots Really Need to Step Up on to Hands?   By Rita M. Sambruna

Regular Features

Profile of an Animal Lover - Sid Price

How Did They Train That? Experts Share Their Training Strategies
Training your Bird to Interact with a Towel By Barbara Heidenreich
Training your Bird to Step up onto Strangers By Barbara Heidenreich

What Is Your Bird Saying? Learn to Read Bird Body Language

Science for the Bird Brain (A Synopsis of Scientific Papers Related to Avian Medicine)
Studies of Phobic Behaviors in Parrots By Diane Starnes

Your Good Bird! Reader Success Stories
You Don’t Have to Fight the Travel Carrier By Trish Koontz

The Bird and the Bank Account By Beverly Penny
Giving Parrots Choices By Tamara Ferri
An Update on CasperBy Terry Clare

Out of the Mouths of Parrots
RV Parrot By Georgi Abbot
Major Problems in the Bathroom By Ruth Patterson

Pick the Principle. Positive Reinforcement, Negative Reinforcement, or Punishment?
By Barbara Heidenreich and Susan Friedman, PhD

Pickin’ Parrots
Could you be Reinforcing your Parrots Feather Destructive Behavior? By Cheryl Rose

Spring 2009

Feature Articles

Six Myths about Parrot Behavior by Barbara Heidenreich

Enrichment in Britches and Other Unusual Items by Kris Porter
The Internet Reveals Parrot Secrets by Barbara Heidenreich
Enrichment! Thinking Outside of the Cage by Robin Shewokis
Sprouts! The Super Food by Leslie Morán

Regular Features

Profile of an Animal Lover
Ladies of the Mary Culver Home for the Visually Impaired by Sandy Gilfillan

How Did They Train That? Experts Share Their Training Strategies
Training Parrots to Take Liquid from a Syringe by Jamie Leigh-Powell

What Is Your Bird Saying? Learn to Read Bird Body Language

Your Good Bird! Reader Success Stories
Mackie the Miracle Umbrella Cockatoo by Shauna Roberts
A Tale of Two Amazon Parrots and Positive Reinforcement by Andrew in Australia
Regaining the Trust of Two Cockatiels by Jarmo Tutti
A Creative Approach to Overcoming an Extreme Fear of Hands by Emily Strong

Spring 2008

Feature Articles
The ABC’s of Behavior By Susan G. Friedman, PhD
Enrichment (Part Two) Foraging Opportunity:
An Integral Component of Environmental Enrichment By Jim McKendry
Bite Me! By Gay Noeth
If Horses Had Wings By Cheryl Ward
Ex “cues” Me? You Want me to do What? By Barbara Heidenreich

Regular Features

Profile of an Animal Lover - Helen Dishaw

How Did They Train That? Experts Share Their Training Strategies
Training your Parrot to Talk on Cue By Barbara Heidenreich

What Is Your Bird Saying? Learn to Read Bird Body Language

Learning to Fly
Flighted Parrots in the Home By Barbara Heidenreich

Science for the Bird Brain (A Synopsis of Scientific Papers Related to Avian Medicine)
The Avian Brain and Intelligence (Part Two) By Diane Starnes

Pickin’ Parrots
Scientific Studies and Feather Picking By Natasha Laity Snyder

Your Good Bird! Reader Success Stories
Eclectus Parrots and Diet By Andrea Frederick
Severely in Need of Patience By Kimberly Sturman
Getting Closer to Nature   By Maria Isabel Sampaio

Fall 2009

Feature Articles
When a Parrot Won’t go Back in the Cage By Barbara Heidenreich
Oops! I Scared My Parrot By Barbara Heidenreich and Sid Price
Of Falcons and Parrots: Five Ways Training Falcons Has Made Me a Better Parrot Trainer By Rebecca K O’Connor
Be Prepared! The Avian Disaster Kit By Jamie Leigh Powell

Regular Features

Profile of an Animal Lover
Robin Shewokis

Learning to Fly
Parrots and the Importance of Flight By Steve Hartman

How Did They Train That?
The Dos and Don’ts of Harness Training Your Parrot By Barbara Heidenreich

What Is Your Bird Saying? Learn to Read Bird Body Language  

Your Good Bird! Reader Success Stories
No Longer Nailed by My Parrot By Pat Phillips
Simple Solution to a Fear Response By Pat Anderson
A Refuge for Saving the Wildlife: A Sanctuary for Parrots and People By Pat Anderson

Fall 2008

Feature Articles
When your Parrot Loves You Too Much By Barbara Heidenreich
Wrap-N-Roll Enrichment By Kris Porter
Constructs: Putting Labels on Bird Behavior By Bev Penny
Simpler Steps to Step up By Rita Sambruna
My Summer Internship at a Parrot Sanctuary By Kodi Pinnell

Regular Features

Profile of an Animal Lover

How Did They Train That? Experts Share Their Training Strategies
Teaching Your Parrot to Drop an Item on Cue By Barbara Heidenreich

What Is Your Bird Saying? Learn to Read Bird Body Language

Your Good Bird! Reader Success Stories
Enrichment Solutions to Behavior Problems By Lisa Desatnik
Making the Connection: From Parrots to Children By Debbie Goodrich
Learning from Mercy By Emily Goug

Fall 2007

Feature Articles
The S Files Addresses Biting When Going into the Cage by Willynne Tully, S.G. Friedman, PhD and L. McGuire
Prompting and Coercion by Barbara Heidenreich  
The Big “A”, Anthropomorphism by Rebecca K. O’Connor
Respecting the Bite by Barbara Heidenreich
An Alaskan Aviary Experience by Kris Porter
Back Yard Habitats for Parrots by Sheralin Conkey and Noelle Fontaine

Regular Features

Profile of an Animal Lover - Linda Morrow

How Did They Train That? Experts Share Their Training Strategies
How I Taught Bertie to Retrieve by Patricia A Phillips

What Is Your Bird Saying? Learn to Read Bird Body Language

Your Good Bird! Reader Success Stories
Perdy Becomes a Problem (Part One) by Dorothy Schwarz
Bailey Learns to Recall by Mona Delgado
Learning not to Reinforce Unwanted Behavior by Beverly Penny
Breakthrough with a Parent-Raised Bird  by Jennifer Ratliff  

Fall 2006

Feature Articles
The Facts About Punishment By S.G. Friedman, PhD, and Bobbi Brinker
Extreme Close Up of a Freelance Artist  Featuring Mary Hughes
The Galah: Surviving in Australia’s Outback By Gemma Dehnbostel
Not So Stupid Pet Tricks By Gay Noeth
Bird Identification Challenge Photos by Nico Shoemaker

Regular Features

Profile of an Animal Lover –Kim Caldwell

How Did They Train That? Experts Share Their Training Strategies

Training your Bird to Target By Barbara Heidenreich

What Is Your Bird Saying? Learn to Read Bird Body Language

Learning to Fly
Colorado Fly Week Review By Dean Moser, Chris Biro, Darren Edwardson, Ellen Aparicio

Science for the Bird Brain (A Synopsis of Scientific Papers Related to Avian Medicine)
 A Closer Look at Neophobia in Parrots By Diane Starnes

Your Good Bird! Reader Success Stories
Clipping Picasso’s Toenails: An Odyssey By Pam Price
Positive Fallout from Trick Training By Gay Noeth
Flight: For Better or for Worse By Debbie Goodrich

Pickin’ Parrots
Ahh Choo!  It’s Allergy Season! By Cheryl Rose

The Giggly Mobile is the latest Giggly toy for larger Parrots. The soft odorless rubber with end loops holds all different textures of chewy parts. The Mobile will giggle when moved about. This will entertain your larger Parrots while they play.

Gift from the Heart is loved by all Parrots but you will need to add a treat or two inside with the scrap leather and shreddable bits and pieces hidden inside.  This is a favourite with Lovebirds right up to African Greys.  They treasure the surprises they get when tearing into the box.

Gift Buckets make a perfect gift, whether you have a new Parrot, looking for a gift for a friend with Parrots or simply want something to hold foot toys and treats inside your Parrot's cage.

Start off with a great gift sized for any Parrots.  Toys and treats are all packed with Fun Shreddable Paper in a stainless steel bucket then wrapped in Waffle Paper & tied with paper rope to hold all the goodies together until that special Parrot tears it open.  

Note that contents of bucket may have substitutions of similar size and value based on availability of toys.  Colours and toys may vary.

Best suited for small tot toys or for larger Parrot toys with the use of protective tubes such as Heavy Duty Tubes over the opening to prevent the link from wrapping through their beak.

This delightful Fun Box will make foraging more fun with the Daisy Wood and paper rope that Parrots just love to gnaw.  The Mini Fun Box is just the right size for smaller Parrots.

The Full Bloom is Winston's, my Eclectus, favourite toy.  It is a soft chew and especially good for Parrots that often ignore their toys. It is a successful toy for light chewers. Parrot get great satisfaction because it is easy to destroy . It has a little of everything loved by most Parrots; such as; sola, balsa, plastic chain, and foamie flowers all strung with colourful paper rope.

Available with green, hot hot pink, or orange chain and beads.  If a colour is out of stock we will substitute it with another colour.

This very popular colourful toy is made with corrugated paper and foam beads.  Both are shreddable and loved by almost all Parrots.  Brighten up your Parrot's cage with this highly successful toy,

The Fringy Soft Collar is designed for feather-destructive Parrots. It has layers of fringed soft fleece over a fleece-covered tube collar with velcro closure.

The Four Ring Chain is made with linked bamboo rings covered with woven palm leaves that will provide hours of entertainment for your Parrot.  The Four Ring Chain is sturdy enough for small and medium Parrots, larger Parrots will find the rings easy to hold and fun to manipulate and chew.

These colourful Little Foot Toys are suited for a medium to small Parrot's foot. Offer foot toys when your Parrot is hanging out on your lap or on a playgym.  Each toy is unique with wood and plastic beads strung together with vegetable tanned leather cord.  Package of four.

Forest Crunch is similar version of our Balsa Block and a great way to introduce wood that is slightly harder than balsa. The barky wood coins are very enticing.  It is strung on Poly Rope with colourful trinkets to catch your Parrots eye.  Colours vary.

This foraging device seems to be enthusiastically enjoyed by most Parrots.  The Foraging Wheel is a favourite of highly active Parrots, especially Amazons, Caiques, Cockatoos, and Macaws, and very bright Parrots, such as African Greys.

Your Parrot must use the knob to turn the cover plate and expose the food items within each chamber.  To release the wheel from the bracket, you simply pull down the latch on the bottom of the bracket, raise the cover plate and unhook at the top.  The wheel is then free.  Unscrew the cover plate to refill the chambers, put the cover plate back on, hook the wheel on the top and fold down, secure to the bracket by pressing the bottom latch inward and it will snap closed.

It only takes a few moments and your Parrot will be happily engaged for several hours.  To encourage them t0 keep working the wheel refill each chamber with a different type of food.

All Parrots love seagrass which is what wraps all the natural shreddables in this Foraging Pouch. All you need to add is your Parrot's favourite treats.

The seagrass mat is folded in half and tied together with natural leather with wood blocks dangling to entice your Parrot to play. This is a perfect crunchy shreddable toy for Foraging Fun!

Approximately 40 cm x 30 cm x 7.5 cm (16" 11" x 4")

This cardboard platform perch allows for continuous foraging and can not get any easier for busy caregivers.  Simply add small seeds or pellets over the top to fill the holes or in the colourful wood beads.  It is comfortable for most Parrots from tiny to medium size and can be completely destroyed with the exception of the hardware, so safe the hardware and order any replacement platform next time.  This is another option for any Parrot with feet or leg problems where perching is a challenge.  

Available with zinc or stainless steel hardware.

This cardboard platform perch allows for continuous foraging and can not get any easier for busy caregivers.  Simply add small seeds or pellets over the top to fill the holes or in the colourful wood beads.  It is comfortable for most Parrots from tiny to medium size and can be completely destroyed with the exception of the hardware, so save the hardware and order any replacement platform next time.  This is another option for Parrots with feet or leg problems where perching is a challenge.

Available with zinc or stainless steel hardware.

This cardboard platform perch allows for continuous foraging and can not get any easier for busy caregivers. If cage space is limited this platform is perfect.  Simply add small seeds or pellets over the top to fill the holes or in the colourful wood beads.  It is comfortable for most Parrots from tiny to medium size and can be completely destroyed with the exception of the hardware, so safe the hardware and order any replacement platform next time.  This is another option for any Parrot with feet or leg problems where perching is a challenge.  

This cardboard platform perch allows for continuous foraging and can not get any easier for busy caregivers.  Simply add small seeds or pellets over the top to fill the holes.  It is comfortable for most Parrots from tiny to medium size and can be completely destroyed with the exception of the stainless steel hardware.  This is another option for any Parrot with feet or leg problems where perching is a challenge.  

What Parrot doesn't like shredding and chewing and foraging? This Foraging Pinata combines all three of your Parrot's favourite activities in one.  Hide treats in the holes to entice your Parrot to forage and stay engaged.  The handwoven palm leaf exterior is filled with palm leaf and abacca fibers.

Watch your smaller Parrots tear through the cardboard tube to open it enough to get the interesting goodies from inside.

This is a great toy filled with lots of destructive fun for your Parrot. It has paper sticks, wood pieces, nubbies, and some talon toys. But be sure to add some favourite treats to make this a rewarding foraging toy.  Colours vary.

This is a great toy loaded with lots of destructive fun for your Parrot. It has bagels, pinecones, paper sticks, wood pieces, nubbies, fun paper shred, and some talon toys. Be sure to add some favourite treats to make this a rewarding foraging toy.  Colours vary.

These small Foraging Dispenser Refill fit the small Verticle and Horizontal Foraging Dispensers.  Have plenty on hand for daily foraging.  

Parrots must chew through each compartment within the box to continue to reveal and gather more food.  As they becomes a more proficient forager, add multiple units to the environment and Increase the difficulty by positioning units in locations which are more challenging to access. 

Foraging Cups will stimulate natural foraging behaviour by making your Parrot work for its food.  This one has a screw and wingnut to make it slightly more challenging as well as a heavy-duty chain with a welded o-ring.  Your Parrot will also benefit from the exercise of finding and getting food out of various dishes and toys.  The more foraging areas throughout the cage and play areas, the better.

Foraging Cups will stimulate natural foraging behaviour by making your Parrot work for its food.  This one has a screw and wingnut to make it slightly more challenging as well as a heavy-duty chain with a welded o-ring.  Your Parrot will also benefit from the exercise of finding and getting food out of various dishes and toys.  The more foraging areas throughout the cage and play areas, the better.

Available with a solid base or clear base.

Sometimes the simplest things work the best. These foraging boxes can easily be filled with Bits & Pieces of broken shredded toys, a few treats, and Paper Shred. If your Parrot needs a little help just poke a couple of holes in the sides and pull out a little Paper Shred. These can be made into hanging toys with Leather Strips, Sisal Rope, Cotton Rope, Coconut Rope, or Paulie Rope. Hang 2, hang 5, or all 10.

Sometimes the simplest things work the best. These foraging boxes can easily be filled with Bits & Pieces of broken shredded toys, a few treats, and Paper Shred.  If your Parrot needs a little help just poke a couple of holes in the sides and pull out a little Paper Shred. These can be made into hanging toys with Natural Cord such as Leather Strips, Sisal Rope, Cotton Rope, Coconut Rope, or Paulie Rope.  Make your own version of our Bento Box by hanging 2, hanging 5, or all 10.

The clear Tumbler satisfies any Parrot's foraging needs.  The flower-like curves hold pellets.  Your Parrot will learn to spin the toy to make pellets fall into the transparent tube at the bottom. 

This snuggle toy is great for Parrots that need something to cozy up to every night.  It is made with anti-pill fleece so it will not entice them to preen the fibres.  They will love to snuggle up right next to it and you will know when you hear the ring of a surprise liberty bell tucked up inside the Flurries of fleece.  Don't be surprised if your Parrot decides it's a great toy to play peek-a-boo.

It comes in combination of two colours, such as, Turquoise/ l Lme Green, Piink / Floral or, solifd colour with multi-colours.  Please indicate your first choice and we will try to accommodate, as we only make a couple of each combination. When one is sold out the picture will be removed.

Some Parrots will use it to clean off their beaks after eating. The fleece is washable by gently cleaning by hand with mild soap and water.  We prefer if you simply wiped clean occasionally after food bits are dry to maintain firm fibres.

Balsa Flower Box is designed for your medium size Parrots. It has several different soft textures and is perfect for gentle chewers and compromised beaks. It is layered sola flowers, thick balsa blocks, colourful waffle paper for hiding treats, and trinkets all strung on colourful paper rope.  Add your quick link to hang this in the cage.

Each toy has natural parts in one of five colours.

The Floral Foraging Bouquet is a perfect foraging toy for hiding Nutri-berries or other round shaped treats for your Parrot by tucking them into the Loofah sandwiched between slats of balsa and basswood.  This is finished off with brightly coloured paper cups, corn husk buttons, sprockets and a little Paper Rope for gnawing or tugging.  Colours may vary.