http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veb8o2p-IFY&feature=g-upl Pairing environmental events with positive outcomes with a program Barred Owl. ... Read More
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It’s A New Day, It’s A New Way
So here I sit, wide awake at 3:48, the morning after Thanksgiving. It's Black Friday and people are out busting down the doors of stores in search of ... Read More
Ahh, very soon.
Oh dearest blog. How I miss thee. Let me count the ways. I've been swamped. That's a good thing. Being swamped with traveling pulls me from my ... Read More
A Bit About Reinforcement
Reinforcers are anything that follows a behavior that causes that behavior to maintain or increase. For example, a bird steps up or flies to you when ... Read More
What is appropriate enrichment?
That's easy. The animal will tell us. If my birds aren't interacting with their toys, they are then call 'obstacles'. I spoke about this topic in ... Read More
The Proof Is In The Pudding
The proof is in the pudding...about positive reinforcement training, that is. Sometimes I don't even like to use the word 'training' when I'm talking ... Read More
Colorado Behavior, Training, & Enrichment Workshop
Colorado Behavior, Training, & Enrichment Workshop. ... Read More
Colorado Behavior, Training, & Enrichment Workshop
I so miss coming on here and posting the way I used to. I had a parent fall ill this spring and I devoted most of my attention to him and so glad I ... Read More
Question on training a behavior; training a bird to trust me getting closer in proximity to him.
Question: Dear Lara, About a month ago I adopted what I was told to be a 6-year-old blue-fronted hybrid amazon parrot. When I got him I ... Read More
A Diamond In The Rough
"A diamond in the rough" is a phrase that often comes to mind when I am interacting with Rocky, my thirteen year old, male Moluccan Cockatoo. Rocky ... Read More
Question on Behavior & Training: My African Grey Consistently Bites His Nails and Flaps His Wings When He is Nervous
Hi Lara, I hope you can help us. I have a two-year old male Congo African Grey. He is a nail biter. He's been biting his nails for some time ... Read More
Major Tom to Ground Control!
Someone posted something on my FaceBook page today that reminded me of this. Two days ago I was out re-arranging items in the aviary. Hanging new ... Read More