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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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Groovy Love has enticing Groovy Wood and balsa separated by charming acrylic rings on bird-safe wire,  This toy has lots of bling.  It has a clasp to hang from the side of the cage next to a favourite perch.  

The Groovy Munch Stackr is designed for large Macaws and Cockatoos who love chewing wood. The three large blocks of wood are approximately 3" square (7.5 cm) and the smaller ones, separated with sisal rope, are approximately 3" by 1-1/2" and 1/2" thick. This toy can be custom made in all natural wood and sisal if you don't like coloured wood.

This toy is designed to be replenished with ;Groovy Munch Wood and Soft Wood Blocks.

This large Groovy Munch Wood is best strung by 3.0 mm chain.  Restack existing toys or create your own.  They are available in natural or one of five colours.  Sold individually.

Use these blocks in our replenishable large Parrot toy Groovy Munch Stack.

Red Palm Oil is made from the naturally orange-coloured pulp of the Red Palm fruit. It provides natural precursors to Vitamin A and Vitamin E, along with fatty acids, heart-healthy co-enzymes, and antioxidants.  Each bottle or jug is good for 1 year from opening.  Be sure to enter the date on the label so you know when it is beyond the best-before date.  A 1-liter bottle is enough for a medium size Parrot such as an Eclectus or African Grey.

Make your own perches with these low cost hanger bolts.  Prepare your wood by spraying with alcohol and letting it dry under bright sunlight.  The natural sunlight is a disinfectant.  Please boil your wood for a sufficient length of time to remove all bark if it has been taken from an area where the wood may have been exposed to raccoons.  Raccoons carry a deadly virus that if transferred to your Parrot will cause death.

Use our Drill Attachment to drive the bolt into the perch and make this task a cinch

Swinging Paddles on this toy will keep your Parrot entertained. Brightly colored ice cream sticks and colourful beads alternate on a ring and hung by chain.  This fun toy is perfect for keeping your smaller Parrot active, and promotes exploration as well as instinctive activities such as chewing.

New convenient 26 watt fluorescent compact bulb that provides UVA and UVB light for small Parrots.  The lower Kelvin of these bulbs significantly reduce the risk of cateracts that are often caused by the high Kelvin reptile lights being sold as avian lighting.

In nature, having a UV receptor may give a bird an advantage when foraging for food; UV reflectance and absorption by different fruits may advertise their presence. Females are attracted to males that show their brightest UV reflectance, so having UV vision can serve as a useful indicator of the health of a mate.  Help your Parrots see more with the HARI Avian Light.  It benefits the 4-cone receptors in avian vision to detect a broader palate of colours and perceive UV colours invisible to the human eye.

This Small Aglet Heaven Shoelace toy will keep your feathered family member busy for hours! Great for pluckers and over-preeners.  Aglets are shoelace tips and this toy is loaded up with them, all up and down the coloured shoelaces that dangle from a ring.  It will be beak pleasing fun and sure to be a favourite in your Parrot's collection of toys. It comes with a coloured shoelace loop for hanging purposes.

These are colourful plastic tubes that can be used on small to medium-sized toys.  They are slightly longer than other heavy-duty tubes.and are available in bright solid colours.

If your Parrot dunks food in their water bowl, a water bottle will ensure their water is always clean and fresh. It is easy to install and train your Parrot to use simply by adding a dab of peanut butter to the tip.

This is a discontinued product.  Special order only while available.

The Hide-N-Seek Foraging Toy makes it super easy to set up a cage for daily foraging.  Now you have an option that is not only easy for you, but also easy to train your Parrot to seek out food.  You can simply leave some of the cups with treats exposed.

It has been proven that foraging will deter Parrots from feather destruction.  A topic we discuss in our Emotions Class.

The Hideout is a favourite play area that can be used in or out of the cage.  This Hideout has tons of coloured wood blocks and "unpolished" cotton rope.  It is made with stainless steel wire, hardware, and nickel plate chain and link. It has an applewood X-shaped perch, and many strands of beads on Paulie Rope for your Parrot to play with while they are sitting inside.  This would make a great place for your Parrot to play, hang out, or snuggle up and go to sleep !!  The Large has lots of room for Amazons, African Greys, Eclectus, and smaller Cockatoos. 

The High Jinks toy has lots of trinkets hanging from colourful spinners. It is suspended by bird-safe wire with a nickle plate liberty bell. This toy is designed for tiny tot and small Parrots.

The High Jump toy has a mini sneaker suspended by a coil to make it bounce. This toy is best suited for tiny tot and small Parrots.

Here is another perfect foraging toy for Tiny Tots.  These bright-coloured Dinos may scare your little Parrots.  Not to worry because they all stand upright so you can place one on a table next to the cage and introduce it slowly.  These have bright shredded paper stuffed inside to support the treats as well as the soft rubber dino.  Be sure to keep it filled with both.

This has been designed with Parrotlets, Linnies, and Budgies in mind.  The Hol-ee Dino can hide lots of really great treats, even in the mouth of the T-Rex.  The small c-link for hanging in the cage has a large bead covering the opening with a tiny pacifier added.  Suitable for all little Parrots.  Colours vary.

Finally a perfect foraging toy for Tiny Tots.

This has been designed with Parrotlets, Linnies and Budgies in mind.  The Mini Hol-ee Torpedo is stuffed with bright shredded paper where one can hide lots of really great treats.  It also has trinkets on each end to catch their eye.  Suitable for all small and little Parrots.

You can never have enough dishes. This Plastic Crock Holder work with all the 8 oz Plastic Crocks.

This Stoneware Cup has a cover to help contain food and prevent your Parrot from pooping in their dish.  It has a bolt on the back to attach to the cage bars.  It is ideal for all Parrots or small animals. Comes in white or black.

Avian veterinarians agree that foraging for food is a healthy, stimulating activity which should be encouraged by Parrot owners as it will improve the physical and mental well being of their pet  This starter kit is an easy to use, economical means to help you reach your goal of having your Parrot “work” or “expend some effort” to acquire their food on a daily basis.  Parrots must chew through each compartment 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.   The Foraging Dispenser Refill boxes are available here.

This attractive Horizontal Millet Holder is made for small Parrots that like to eat their millet in a contained fashion. The Millet Holder is made out of BPA-free plastic and mounts easily to most cages. Because it’s easy to clean, it will be a joy to use for both you and your Parrot.