why-animals-do-the-thing:

birdnerd29:

perpetualvelocity:

becausebirds:

“My parrot is a squeaky toy”   [via Facebook]

This is the only thing you need to teach a bird

@why-animals-do-the-thing how would you go about training this type of thing?

You’d want to capture the noise and put it on cue, and then transfer the cue to the hand motion – do the motion and give the cue simultaneously until one starts to mean the other, then fade out the original cue.