Chris Biro on Training

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The following links contain discussion by Chris Biro of subjects related to training parrots for flight. Chris mainly focuses on flight outdoors though on occasion does mention aspects that relate to indoor flight only. This page is under construction and Chris is currently adding or editing the material on a regular basis. The articles listed here below are written by Chris Biro, who retains full copyright protection for the content therein.

Basic Flight Training Contains a general outline of steps used to train freeflight. Includes some discussion of Targeting.

Styles of Flying Contains discussion of definitions of different ways people fly their birds.

Variable Reinforcement Contains discussion of how often to reinforce behavior during training.

Target Training Contains general outline of the value and uses of targeting and how to start this training.

Indoor Recall Training Contains general outline for starting with a baby bird and training it for cued recall responses.

Building Interest In Food Rewards Contains discussion of isues related to getting a bird to work for food as reinforcers.

Positive Punishment or Negative Reinforcement? Contains discussion of how to correctly determine which of the four quadrants is being used in training terms.

To The Perch & Back Again Contains discussion of issues relating to training the game of "flying back and forth to a perch."

A Little Motivation Goes A Long Ways Contains discussion about issues relating to Motivation and Getting Behaviors.

Stimulus Control Contains discussion relating to establishing good stimulus control.

Hanging Out Time & The Matching Law Contains discussion about training issues relating to letting the birds have free time outdoors and still be able to recall them down.

Weighing The Risks Contains discussion about evaluating the risk factor of freeflying parrots outdoors.

Parrot Flight Skill Levels Contains discussion of examples of trained domestic parrot flight skills.

Difference Age Makes Contains discussion of some of the issues that make a difference when training a young bird at fledging age as compared to one year or more.

To Harness or Not Contains discussion of some issues related to the use of a harness on a flighted bird.

Moab April 2008 Contains description of the events of 5-8 April 2008 in Moab Utah.

[1] www.thepiratesparrot.com Contains more articles by Chris Biro and others about freeflight training and related issues. This is an older website and has not been updated in a few years due to technical difficulty but much of the material is very relevant today.

Also check www.youtube.com and search for Chris Biro to see freeflight videos by Chris.