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I love the new intro animation! It’s so cute!

THANK YOU!! I have been looking for something on parrot body language

First of all, the new intro is gorgeous! Secondly, Im thrilled that you remade this video. It's one of my flock talks favorites. Very useful

This (for me) is research for writing and drawing, and this really helped, so thanks! :D

Can I make another body language suggestion? When I first got my 2 rescues, I really struggled, what helped me was to set up a video to record our interactions & when I got "randomly" bitten, I found if I replayed the video & watched the body language straight before it really closely, I could often see signs I had missed in real time. I found that helped me a lot in learning to see the signals, that were just too subtle for me, as an inexperienced bird handler

Thank you, this affirms what I have concluded owning my Parrotlet for 10 years. I have seen all these behaviors and it's good to know I am reading him correctly. Neo has two more behaviors that he does often that are pretty funny. The first is what we call the ninja where he will look away and then turn back and do two to three beak open lunges. The second is he will bow and do three peeps in a perfect ascending pitch (like root-fifth-octave). The ninja is usually when he gets bored sitting on my shoulder. While it seems aggressive, I can put my finger there and he will hop right on and be completely calm. The bow is random. Sometimes when he bites and I say "no bite" and sometimes when he is just wandering around his playground. He has nearly taken himself out several times doing the ninja on my shoulder which just cracks me up. Of course he has learned to mimic my laugh and I laugh even harder. Thank you for all your videos!

love the new intro :) & great video, VERY helpful. I've been trying to figure out what my boy's doing for ages & I now have, he's lunging, but because I'm too stupid to realise, he's trying it in every way he possibly can to get the message through, while dumb human keeps interacting, trying to figure out what he wants & put the signals together, when actually all the signals are just get tf away from me PLEASE! I didn't realise the beak tapping etc stuff were all part of the lunging. He is such a good boy with not biting, so tollerant of me screwing up. Now I know, I'll have to try some of the training stuff with rewarding by moving away, I just didn't realise all those motions were about "get away from me" & he obviously IS scared of lights, I thought so, but wasn't 100% sure, but that second picture is classic him on seeing the light on the smoke detector, or any other ceiling light on, no matter what type, I've tried switching fluro to led & halogen, he reacts the same way to all of them & to sunlight too & first pic, I totally screwed up, thought it was angry, I think probably cause the only time either of mine do head feathers raised for more than just a shake is if angry, the other pics I got right, but the 2 birds only from what I learnt in this video Learnt a new word too, "fawning", I know that behaviour well from my girl, I'd heard it called "learned helplessness", but never heard fawning before. She will fully submit, then on returning to her cage do extreme swaying, along with crying, shaking & being covered in goosebumps in her plucked areas, at least she used to when I got her, she's much better now & is quite bitty, which I love, boy bites to protect her too, which is also awesome that he loves her like that, even if he can't handle touching or preening from her. Thanks so much for the video though, this is awesome! I'd really love if you could do more on body language too, there's really not enough good info on it out there, for example, when a bird puts it's beak down onto something in front of it & puffs out & shakes it's wings, is that hormones? Or can it be excitement too? Or a mix, or something totally different? I've seen that so often in training videos (although never in yours) & in my boy, but have never actually seen/heard a good explanation for it, you kinda cover the body low in this video, but I think this particular action is a bit different, not sure, anyway, more videos on more body language varieties would be wonderful if you can

Great video :) it definitely take some practice to decipher bird body language!

I am happy to share my small but substantial victory working on our bird here, because it is really this video that helps me out. We are recently trying to work with out dear cutest but nippiest green cheeked conure Kinoko. Overtime, we have already reduced tons of nippy behaviour, or at least try our best to dodge the bites, except one thing: when I try to do the dishes, he flies to my shoulder to watch me, and then he bites my neck, which triggers me all the time because my neck is sensitive, and I cannot dodge because I cannot see him! We all thought it was because of boredom, but since it happens all the time, we need to take action. What I try to do is I put my T-stand on the stove and ask Kinoko to stand there watching, so that I can observe and react to his body language. This is the video comes into play: I found him very chill and joyful, and then he gets a bit bored. Then he gets interested to see what I am doing, but then suddenly, he gets really alerted and scared, when I finish a dish and put it away, creating some noise probably scary to him. His body languages are one-to-one copies of the exercises in this video so it's very straightforward to find out. With this we then come to the conclusion that he is not bored but scared while standing on my shoulder watching the dishes, which results in biting my neck. It is really rewarding managing to understand the inner thought of my dear little bird!

im so glad i watched this video, i have a timneh grey and wanted to learn more about understanding the kinda mood he's in i really loved that mini quiz at the end. would be cool to do a few more i got 2/3, kinda struggled with the first one because the eye wasnt very clear and you couldnt see the rest of the body

I wish there was a LOVE<3 button for You tube. Thank yo so much for this video and your channel! I'm currently in the process of training my parents to be able to better read my conure Jack so they don't get bitten by him. He's overall quite good, but we're all always learning! Can you do a video on " weird" bird body languages?' Like "bonking" and "nodding/ different kinds of head bobbing" and " strutting" It's so cute to witness, especially the head bob, but I'm beginning to lean toward all of those being a warning than an invitation. I've read multiple different opinions on those. your channel is my 100% favorite bird channel! So happy you're still making videos!! I really appreciate that You are so clear and succinct and get to the point without a bunch of time wasting non-bird related chatter to inflate watch time like a LOT of channels do..... I send links to your channel on my fcbook bird groups all the time! <3 <3 <3

Awww the tail fanning 😂 my ringneck does that when carrying around their ball , almost a strut. I never know for certain what it means because everything you read says exactly what you do. But it seems like he or she is happy and playful 🤔 love your channel, so informative!

❤❤❤I hope you talk about training birds and how to train them 😊

Great and informative video! ❤

Thank you. Also passing along info. One of my budgies turned very aggressive to the other. The victim bird had an injury to it's toe. Toe healed, aggression ended. Birds hide injuries. Though I didn't catch on immediately, I caught on soon enough.

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My 2year old lovebird never bit me. But he suddenly started to bite my fingers not in an aggressive way. I can’t figure it out whether he wants to play or he wants something else. It hurts when he bites. 😢

I give my bird pine nuts whilst training but can i give too many?? Thanknyou for your videos love them