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Clicking Birds: A Veterinarian's Perspective

... her a few questions about why she recommends clicker training for every patient she sees. How do the bird owners you work with respond to the idea of training their birds? What happens to the bird/person relationship once they experience ...

story - KPCT - 2007-12-15 08:56 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Clicking with Birds

... from Melinda Johnson, the author of our book on clicking birds, Clicker Training for Birds . Yes! Clicker training works for birds too. ...

story - Melinda Johnson - 2007-12-15 08:44 - 3 comments - 0 attachments

Clicking Is Really for the Birds!

Back in 1979 I taught a training course for keepers at the National Zoo. The zoo had a display full of ... five million households in the US own one or more pet birds. Thanks to great improvements in captive breeding techniques, many of ... Now, there's help. Melinda Johnson's Clicker Training for Birds . While the book applies to any bird from a canary to an ...

story - Karen Pryor - 2007-12-15 08:42 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Test Your Timing with These Online Tools

Test Your Skills Improve your clicker training skills online. There are a few places tucked away in the ether of ... with and practice a little clicker magic and.... with birds no less. Great warm-up for clickertraining for birds Reflex ...

story - KPCT - 2007-06-26 13:48 - 3 comments - 0 attachments

Come Back, But Don't Come Down: Advanced Exercise in Cueing

... to ask. But I thought I knew. I would expect that some birds figure it out, and some never do. For most people, it would depend on ... way to look at the problem. As the pioneer in clicker training , Marian Breland Bailey, Ph.D., puts it, with operant conditioning ...

story - Karen Pryor - 2006-10-24 11:22 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Karen's Corner

... Shoot the Dog and one of the founders of clicker training . In this section you'll find some things I've written about training that are not easily available elsewhere, such as speeches, my monthly ...

page - Karen Pryor - 2007-06-26 14:53 - 7 comments - 0 attachments

Clicker Training for Birds chosen for national library collection

... National Agricultural Library has selected Clicker Training for Birds to add to its significant collection. The National Agricultural Library ...

company blog - Miranda Hersey Helin - 2006-09-14 13:23 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Keeping pet birds flying

... in Salem, Oregon, an article about not clipping pet birds' wings and instead using clicker training to help keep them safe: Most pet-bird owners wrestle with the ...

company blog - Miranda Hersey Helin - 2006-08-24 13:25 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

The Parrot Talent Show at the local bird club

... was talent show day at the local exotic bird club.  My birds and I did not enter - I am a new member and I didn't feel like my ... of the 10 (+ or -) participants had done any deliberate training.  All of the rest had just demonstrated "natural" behaviors ...

blog entry - BlueHairBob - 2007-02-26 14:41 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Falconry and Modern Operant Conditioning

... In recent years, new methods have been introduced into training and conditioning birds for falconry. These new training methods depend on a concept called ...

story - Karen Pryor - 2007-12-15 08:58 - 0 comments - 0 attachments