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Avian Publications - Bird Books and Videos

Bird Sitter by Steve Hartman & Steve Cantin - Birds normally frequently communicate with the flock because they are constantly socializing and looking for predators. Just think about all the bird chatter you can constantly hear in your backyard. Birds' brains are designed for constant communication -- something humans are not able to supply. This DVD will give your pet bird the opportunity to experience life in a flock, the way parrots were meant to live. The video exposes then to the sights and sounds of hundreds of parrots engaging in everyday life in a flock, giving your bird constant mental stimulus and making him or her happier and healthier. Now your bird will never have to be home alone! The Bird Sitter video also works great for helping escaped parrots find their way home.

Bird Sitter DVD

 Captive Foraging: The Next Best Thing to Being Free by Dr. M. Scott Echols - This innovative DVD is destined to change the way caretakers view their captive birds. Based on the model of the natural foraging instinct of all animals, author and videographer Dr. Scott Echols introduces the concept of including a foraging tree in a bird's enclosure for environmental enrichment. The video describes how a foraging tree can potentially reduce the incidence of unwanted behaviors in captive birds. Also included are step-by-step directions on how to use a foraging tree as well as safe foraging toys for birds. A separate Special Feature details scientific information about the bird species included in the program. Topics covered include understanding the natural foraging instinct of all animals; preventing unwanted behaviors, such as feather destruction and repetitive functionless activity; build a foraging tree for captive birds; and creating foraging toys -- from basic to advanced -- to keep birds occupied and happy. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to qualified avian research projects selected by the author.

Captive Foraging DVD

 Parrot Behavior & Training (Part 1): Introduction to Training by Barbara Heidenreich - Animal trainer Barbara Heidenreich teaches behavior basics and tools for training your bird. Chapters include Reinforcement, Tools, Cue and Target Bridging, Sharing with Approximation, Variable Reinforcement, Training Examples, Target Training, Turn Around on Cue, Wave on Cue, Step Up on Cue, and Retrieve.

Parrot Training: 

Part 1 DVD

 PollyVision: Strictly for Parrots by World Parrot Trust - Produced to enhance the welfare of captive parrots, this 80-minute DVD is intended for their entertainment and enjoyment. You may catch yourself mesmerized as well by parrots from around the world going about their business — flying, feeding, preening, and carrying on. Gorgeous footage, a must-have for your feathered friends.

PollyVision: Strictly for Parrots

 Stalking the Wild Amazons (DVD) by Michael Schindlinger - This up-close and personal video puts you in touch more closely than ever before with the lives of wild Amazon parrots, as they laugh, love, live, and grow. Three years of fieldwork went into this first-hand look at these marvelous, intelligent parrots in their own element, in their own way, and in their own voice. You'll go down a hollow tree into the nest, and watch as parents care for their nestlings. You'll come to know them and the animals and birds who share their environment, on the Gulf Coast of Mexico. Only by coming to know them as they live naturally will we come to value and conserve these unique species who share so much with us. Understanding the lives of wild parrots is the first step in ensuring their continued survival. The proceeds from the sale of this video will help ensure the continuation of ongoing parrot research into their lives and languages.

Stalking the Wild Amazons DVD
Teach Your Parrot Series (1): Fantastic Performing Parrots (DVD) by Tani Robar - A must-see for parrot lovers, this is one of the most amazing bird trick DVDs ever produced! For the first time you can see the secrets of professional bird show tricks. Many of these are original, never before seen tricks with Tani and her birds and all are tricks you can teach your own bird. DVD 1 features five performing parrots. This DVD presents a lively and entertaining display of bird tricks, many of which are original. Adding to the entertainment are the distinct personalities of each parrot. Poopsie, a green-cheeked conure, is the smallest and also the oldest of the five. She does the most complicated tricks. Squawk, a blue-crowned conure, actually holds a conversation with Tani, and is probably the most talented of the group. Cassie is a black-headed caique. She is the clown of the show. DVD I also introduces Kiri, an African grey and Prince, a crimson-winged parakeet.

Teach Your Parrot Series (1) DVD

 Teach Your Parrot Series (2): Beginning Tricks (DVD) by Tani Robar - Can't teach an old bird new tricks? Yes you can! This unique DVD is an easy-to-follow guide to teach the basic training techniques essential for any advanced training. It works for all parrots — from budgies to macaws! Topics covered include appropriate rewards to use, how to give commands and signals, what constitutues a tame bird, the training area, length of training sessions, and step-by-step demonstrations of how to teach your parrot those first important tricks: the turn-around (always an excellent first trick), shake hands, the wave (which can be used as hello, goodbye or even a salute), the kiss, wishing well, forward rolls, the dismount, backward flips, plus others.

Teach Your Parrot Series (2) DVD

 Teach Your Parrot Series (3): Intermediate Tricks (DVD) by Tani Robar - Good owners = great birds. Entertaining and informative, this DVD will teach you to think from the bird's perspective, giving you the ability to give your bird the commands and signals it will understand. The result is a pet who is secure and eager to respond to your words or physical cues. This training can help lead to years of loving companionship! DVD 3 builds on the training techniques presented in DVD 2. DVD 3 shows you how to teach the all-important retrieve, plus some of the related tricks based on the retrieve like ring on the peg, basket ball, coin in the bank, puzzle board of shapes, ringing a bell, raising the flag, and the pull toy. Playing dead, and it's related tricks of juggling a ball, holding a baby bottle, and the parrot cocktail will be explained and shown. The roll over and the somersault are taught, and finally innovative behaviors are shown and explained.

Teach Your Parrot Series (3) DVD

 Teach Your Parrot Series (4): Advanced Tricks (DVD) by Tani Robar - Good owners = great birds. Entertaining and informative, this DVD will teach you to think from the bird's perspective, giving you the ability to give your bird the commands and signals it will understand. The result is a pet who is secure and eager to respond to your words or physical cues. This training can help lead to years of loving companionship! DVD 3 builds on the training techniques presented in DVD 2. DVD 3 shows you how to teach the all-important retrieve, plus some of the related tricks based on the retrieve like ring on the peg, basket ball, coin in the bank, puzzle board of shapes, ringing a bell, raising the flag, and the pull toy. Playing dead, and it's related tricks of juggling a ball, holding a baby bottle, and the parrot cocktail will be explained and shown. The roll over and the somersault are taught, and finally innovative behaviors are shown and explained.

Teach Your Parrot Series (4) DVD

 Teach Your Parrot Series (4): Advanced Tricks (VHS) by Tani Robar - Building on the behaviors taught in Videos II and III, this video tape presents new and challenging tricks for the advanced bird and trainer. Are you and your bird ready for more difficult tricks? Then this video tape is a must for you! Includes taking a bow, nodding head yes and shaking head no, the expanded use of the commands come and perch, falling over backward when shot, pushing objects such as a baby buggy, pulling objects such as a wagon, riding a scooter, turning a crank, bowling, the shell game trick, explanations of how various combination tricks shown in Video I were put together, plus much, much more!

Teach Your Parrot Series (4) VHS
Training Your Parrot the Alex Way by Dr. Irene Pepperberg & Chris Davis - This DVD features Dr. Irene Pepperberg and her famous research subject, Alex the African Grey. In it, Dr. Pepperberg provides examples of the model/rival training techniques she uses to encourage parrots to communicate rather than mimic. In addition, bird behaviorist Chris Davis adapts these techniques to train other parrots. Note: Will play on any DVD player or computer DVD drive worldwide!

Training Your Parrot the Alex Way DVD

 Where the Wild Greys Are: A Day in the Life of Africa's Grey Parrots by Diana May & Valerie Hovetter - For hundreds of years, African Grey parrots have been trapped and exported from West Africa to be kept as pets in Europe and elsewhere, leading to potential extinction in the wild. This video from the World Parrot Trust includes some of the first sound scientific information about the African Grey parrot lifestyle in the wild and the risks of trapping them for the pet trade. The World Parrot Trust is vehemently opposed to the trapping of any bird in the wild, and is conducting a campaign to ask the European Union to bring a total ban on the importation of birds. A portion of sale proceeds will help fund this campaign.

Where the Wild Greys Are... DVD

         

 

 

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