Melopsittacus undulatus tricky name translates as budgerigar. These decorative bird is considered one of the smartest in the world. If you are lucky with the pet, it is able to store and play up to hundreds of words. But not every family's favorite feathered so diligent.
Often parrots just feel our patience, do not want to talk angrily pecking at human hands and furiously flying through the cell in any attempt to get close to them. How to train a budgerigar at home?
Interesting facts about budgies
Like humans, they may be right-handed and left-handed. Make sure your pet if he holds the treat left foot and use it more often than others, so the house wound up left-handed. This feature can be used to taming.
Parrot, like a newborn kitten to sleep up to 10 hours a day. Do not touch the bird, when it is sleeping and does not require too much of it. Budgies, unlike dogs, see the world and peripheral color. They are able to distinguish the 150 movements per second, and a man - only 16, 9 times less.
This trait trainers use when teaching a parrot to new movements. By the way, many of the pupils can with interest to watch television together with the owners - it contributes to the convergence of man and bird.
Parrots live up to 20 years, and every 5-7 years, they is a mid-life crisis, as we have with you. The British gave the exact name of this temporary gaps - terrible two. First flexible, parrot in times of crisis can suddenly change the character and habits of biting, angry tweet about and no, viciously flit around the apartment. Treat with understanding these periods, but do not let the bird get the better of him.
If you want a long life of his pupil, do not feed him chocolate, avocados, not to pour salt in the grain and not poite alcohol. These products are harmful to the budgerigar, and able to poison him. They can not be used as a promotion in taming.
What a trained parrot?
He can speak some words and phrases, dance, move on command, respond to others. And even protect your dog from other animals insidious encroachments pecks or sharp squeak. But this requires training.
That's what they are capable professional trainers:
First you have to figure out how to tame a parrot. Without a common language the bird will not listen to you. You have the impression that this feathered given to you as a punishment for a grave sin.
• Watch for the pet.
• Understand that he loves doing what most readily.
This will give the opportunity to start with the exercises that are most similar to your favorite brightly colored.
• Each day, feed a parrot with his hands, so he used to you.
• Do not give a lot of food - animal should want more, he needs to something to strive for the promotion. Otherwise, the stimulus to education will not be.
• During feeding talking quietly with a parrot.
• Do not start training, if you have a depressed mood, you are irritated or tired. The bird will feel it, try to answer aggression or stay away from the host.
• When budgie get used to you and will not fly away, it can get out of the cage and put on the hand. This will give the base to the following actions on taming.
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What are the 5 levels of patience you need to pass in order to achieve good results in training the birds?
• Positive reinforcement: bird execute commands and get a treat.
• Penalty: bird does not respond, nothing for it does not receive or send a cell.
• Negative promotion: parrot sees an element, that you frighten him, for example, towel, sneakers or newspaper.
• Positive punishment: aggressive stimulus of danger, for example, a light stream of water from a water pistol.
• Negative punishment: deprivation of benefits, for example, you pick up your pet in its cage, leading to confusion and anxiety.
Some trainers do not use aggressive methods of education. As a result, a favorite student himself go in and out "of the house", accustomed to the hands, learning to walk "the ladder".
To achieve results, budgerigar train every day for 15-20 minutes. Listen and take a look, why not listen to the parrot, and his attempts to suppress aggression, smooth, calm voice. Always end training and positive encouragement. Thus you will achieve the results in the first month of communicating with birds.
See how you can train a budgerigar at home and teach him first team. Make your first success with this video:
