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Re: [Freeflight] Re: My summer is over

Hello in France,

> I'm making my way alone here in France, only reading others and you
certainly have some good advices to give to me.
I've heard so much terrible things from people hearing I was
freeflying them, like other native birds would kill them, or the wind
could bring them away and get them lost, that I'm fearing for my male
when he is flying on the other side of the river, outside of the farm.
Will he fly further and further?

Great job with the younger bird! I am very pleased you are having good 
results with her.  As to if you will have ranging problems with the male, it 
is hard to say. My first thought in reading your post is that you need to go 
back to basic recall training with this bird before you continue to let him 
fly outdoors again. It does not sound to me like you really do have a good 
recall response from this bird. It sounds like maybe he understands what you 
are wanting from him but is not willing to comply - I may be wrong here and 
you need to know for your self if this is true or not. If it is true, then 
it sounds like you need to work to find more motivating food items to use as 
treats and/or to let him be a bit more hungry at training times.

> Is it a natural tendancy of the males
to enlarge their territory more and more?

I do not know if there are any studies that suggest this to be true, I have 
not seen any anyway. And I have not seen this with my own birds, but then I 
don't have macaws expanding their territory at this point. Maybe in a year 
or two I will be able to offer a more educated opinion on this subject since 
I will have more macaws flying on the property by then. Right now I only 
have the two and I currently don't know the sex of either.

> Is there any hope it may
change with him?

Good training can change a lot of tendencies, so yes I would say there is 
hope.

>Is there a risk he takes the female with him away?

That is probably possible but I am guessing that there are things you can do 
to help prevent this from happening. some things I might try are more recall 
training, limiting his outdoor time if he does not respond well when 
outdoors, more recall training, if you think he is searching for a nest 
site, try providing him with one close to home, more recall training and did 
you notice I mentioned more recall training?

>Will they obligatory let me down and turn to wild when becoming mature?
I really need your experiences! Thanks!

I don't think so. THEY will not let you down. YOU may let them down by not 
doing your training.

I don't know if I am much help to you here but I hope something is useful in 
what I have said. Keep us posted.

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