Jorge in his free-flight

[petxpert8@a...]

3/7/04

Hello to all, Nick and Jorge (BFA) here. I remember reading a few 
months ago a post about a woman who has a free-flight trained lory, and when she 
had company over one night a person asked what her bird could do, and when the 
woman took out her lory to demonstrate it's free-flight skills the person 
seemed very unimpressed. Later that week I remember Biro posting how he has so 
many people that come to his shows and really do not find it amazing that his 
birds can fly free. 

Well, I read this post, thinking anyone who saw my Jorge fly would 
have to be impressed, well I was wrong! Last night I had a party for many of the 
cast members from a play we recently finished. I brought Jorge upstairs and 
showed everyone at the party (50+ people) all of his tricks; from putting coins 
in a bank, to rolling over on his back to lay motionless in a cocktail glass, 
to zooming down a miniature zip-line by his beak. I then said, "and now for 
his grand finale he will fly a circle (Something I think is amazing, to see him 
jump of my hand, take off toward our high ceiling, do a perfect circle around 
the room, and land right back on my hand) around the entire living room". 
Could you guess what the response was? "Hmmm he is a bird and he flies, what's so 
amazing about that?" although I will admit there was another guest who 
quickly replied, "True, but you have to remember that he had to be trained to fly in 
that perfect circle, and trained not to land on anything else but Nick's 
hand." I would like to see one of them try and flight train an overweight amazon 
who has no flight skills whatsoever, as did I!

Maybe one day people will appreciate flight trained birds, both in the pet 
and non-pet community!

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to chatter!"
-Winston Churchill

Nick
Jorge (BFA)