Updates and Musings About Life with Parrots
Very broadly speaking, most parrots and most children just don’t mix. Children tend to be far more boisterous, loud and quick moving for the liking of parrots, who are after all still just wild, prey animals. That said, parrots can be a delightful addition to a family, so if you’re considering adding a bird to…
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Thank you Kibibi for choosing Best in Flock as the August 2008 Outstanding Avian Site of the Month. We’re honored to have our blog chosen and excited that Kibibi is encouraging fans to add the Best in Flock feed to their RSS readers (e.g., Google Reader, Bloglines, MyYahoo, etc). If you’re new to the blog,…
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Updated November 2009: Link has been fixed. The new download is of the Fall 2008 issue. Parrot trainer Barbara Heidenreich is generously offering a free issue of Good Bird Magazine to readers of the Best in Flock blog. Just click here, enter your information and you’ll receive the free copy via a link in an…
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Where to find props for clicker training, cool training toys, parrot trick props, like birdie roller skates, bird-sized basketball hoops, skateboards for parrots, ring toss and color discrimination games for birds ranging from budgies to cockatoos and macaws.
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Best in Flock was included on the Pets page of AllTop.com, Guy Kawasaki’s project to aggregate all the best feeds on particular topics! And if that wasn’t cool enough, Barbara Heidenreich has added us to her blogroll as well. Stewie and I are honored by the attention and recognition! Thanks so much!!
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I was recently invited to write a guest post by the good people at PetKnows, a blog about cats and dogs… and now parrots. The post is called 5 Things to Consider Before Getting a Bird. and I talk about, you guessed it, things someone should consider if they are thinking of getting a parrot….
Read More...Barbara Heidenreich, author of The Parrot Problem Solver and noted parrot trainer for many years, has a blog. I started this blog because there seemed to be a real dearth of high-quality blogs about parrots (that weren’t just thinly disguised fronts for peddling expensive and questionable parrot training products). Sure, lots of people mentioned their…
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. This fun children’s book, If You Were A Parrot, leads the young reader into a magical world where children can imagine what it’s like to be a parrot. We learn about parrot behavior and the children in the story mimic these behaviors. Particularly noteworthy is that the book even has a section that encourages…
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