Have you thought about training your parrot to solve bird puzzles? If you haven’t you should!
Teaching your bird to do bird tricks with bird puzzles and bird props satisfies a smart birds’ need for intellectual stimulation. If you don’t know about it, you should learn about how smart birds are by following Dr. Irene Pepperberg of Harvard andBrandeis Universities. Dr. Pepperberg is known world-wide for her groundbreaking research with Alex the parrot. An ordinary African Grey Parrot bought randomly from a pet store, Alex taught the world that parrots do indeed have the intellectual capabilities and social skills of a child. Alex demonstrated that he knew colors, size, sequencing, textures, and was a great problem solver. This bird could actually use human language to communicate his needs and desires. Your bird knows this stuff, too!
Your parrot is an Einstein! Our bird puzzles and bird props will teach you step by step strategies to bring out your parrots intellectual gifts in a way that seals your bond and satisfies your birds’ needs for intellectual stimulation. Start out by teaching our pet bird how to learn and then advance into teaching your bird what you want it to learn. If you are an educator, it is these incrementally advancing bird puzzles will feel familiar to the way young children learn.
Bird puzzles and bird props offer an important, reliable and reusable method to:
- Bond with your bird for a lifetime relationship
- Satisfy innate intellectual and problem solving needs that every parrot needs from parakeet to macaw
- Develop a trusted leadership role with your parrot that will make for a better behaved bird long as you continue to be committed to meeting its needs
Parrot parents teach their young how to discriminate, problem-solve, manipulate tools such as twigs, with their beak and feet and learn from their peers. Your pet bird doesn’t have a parrot family so it’s up to you to each your pet bird these skills. Bird Puzzles and bird props give you the tools to meet your parrots intellectual needs and seal a relationship bond with your life-long companion.
Most of our bird puzzles and bird props come with detail bird training instructions, but Clicker Training for Birds will help you learn how to use positive, proven bird training methods to tame your pet bird and train bird tricks.