You can stop parrots from biting two ways, by distracting the bird and figuring out why the bird wants to bite you and change up their environment. Learn more in this free pet care video.
Expert: Elizabeth Cantu
Bio: Elizabeth Cantu has owned and been working with parrots since 1994. She has been active in captive parrot rescue and rehabilitation.
Filmmaker: julio costilla
47 replies to "How to Train a Parrot : How to Train Parrots to Stop Biting"
1:10 Good god, get that bird some help…
I had a cockatiel once. I don’t think it felt “cornered” when it was
sitting on my shoulder and decided to almost rip my earlobe off.
That poor poor cockatoo in the background
What was the bird in the back… O_O
The bird in the background is only
molting, adults do this about once a year to renew old worn out feathers.
It is no sign whatsoever of poor health. 🙂 just so people don’t keep
asking what’s up with the bird in the back. Some birds molt worse than
others and some look pretty bad when they molt. One of mine molts and looks
real bad but he’s perfectly healthy
I’m not questioning your parrot knowledge… but if you’re going to do
videos on training birds, you should edit/fix/and do what is necessary so
you actually look competent in it.
I just can’t believe you’d do a video giving advice on parrots when your so
nervous you cause the parrot to lose balance twice, have a plucking
cockatoo in the background, and the bird takes off halfway through the
video because it doesn’t want you touching it. I’m not saying those things
don’t happen, but you’re in control of the play and pause button and you
chose the take you decided to put online.
Otherwise it just epitomizes the parrot industry in general. People with a
barely half working knowledge of how to take care of parrots thinking
they’re “trainers” because they’ve had a parrot for two years and giving
new pet owners crappy advice, then hoarding more animals than they can
handle and calling it “humane”.
You are a natural! thank you! Love all your videos, and the birds of course
My bird alway bite me and husband, so how i can to train he stop to bite?
When he bite so hurt… Pls help me
If it bites how can i get it on my hand ???
Yeah fully good tips. Only problem is once you start using negative
reinforcement every time your bird is on your hand the bird no longer wants
to step up… then you have 2 issues.
This bird is NOT interested in training with you. NO motivation with you
what so ever. Very great bond you have with you parrot….
Thank you
Im more concerned about the cockatoo :/
what a beutifully marked african grey that is !!!! i have had mine 35 years
and he was very defencive at first but he soon learned by a lot of nips and
giving him his food by hand showing no fear you have to gain trust and you
soon learn they will only do what they want to do its up to you to help
them want to do what you want them to do ,even the hardest bite should not
be retaliated against these are your nervous new friends remember it like
this if your bird bites you it is certainly your own fault so best thing is
work out what scares it and correct it max punishment is no treat for a
bite !!
We have a 9wk old hand-feed Conure that we bought from a local breeder. She
nipping allot; I do believe fear is the cause of her nipping because she is
in a new environment. We tried the hand wobble and praise method (she like
head rubs) method and it works great!
My cockatoo bites my husband, how can I make her stop? Is she jealous?
in my experiance you have a 5 year old human brain in a grey they like to
play and be the centre of attention so you can laugh and i do every day
laugh at what happens next ,they need you so be patient and all will come
good but if you enter the room and your bird dont want anything to do with
you dont go near it they can have the worst bad moods i ever seen
destroying anything they feel like that day we all have bad days right ??
dont dip your toast in coffee my grey shouts at me for a corner of toast
and throws it into its water dish then pulls it out again and eats it
funny hobby
this is somewhat helpful to most cases but not all by any means the male
African gray that had no feathers we have named hobo yea no feathers all
cool until you walk up to him and he putts his head down starring you up
and putts his crest up and tells you “hobo”. he has gained almost all of
his feathers back from spraying when he pulls but as a mature male and not
being handled at all and treated bad he has never been hand fed he will
bite as a first reaction then puff up putt his wings up to make himself
bigger but as well in this type of bird they can as adults brake open
brazil nuts they would fed off in the wild these trick would help on him
after you get him to where he can be handled witch let me say is extremely
difficult but the one other tim birds bite isn’t to harm it is to assert
dominance simply hold there beak and tell them a command like biting is
bad. another thing to use is a high pitched whistle or sound is a way to
tell them they hurt or are hurting you but when adult males get in the mood
to fight almost nothing can stop them. even my conjure desided my buddy was
his competition and with how small and week his jaw is to the bigger guys
he drew blood and all while he was swinging in the air from my buddy trying
to swat at him. he was semi trained but mu buddy was scared of him so he
chuck asserted his dominance and attacked the only funny part was he was to
scared of him so befor that happened he was already running away
screaming…. lol
Naked**
It can’t now today it bite my finger again till bleeding my god I don’t
know what to do
So this works for cockatiels right? they are the smallest parrot right?
Help I have a wild quaker parrot he doesnt step up everytime I try he bites
me and I cant hand feed him one time took one wee km at home just so he can
get used to me but he just kept bitting what should I do
they dont actually bite in the wild
Great tips and the cockatoo in the back is so cute!
Hi, what on earth happened to the parrot behind you? Looks like it tried to
diffuse a bomb the hard way.
I’m sorry stupid question I don’t know anything about taking care of birds
but what is that behind her it looks half eaten
Thanx my grey is not biting now u are usefull girl
I have an african grey, and he started biting me after I got a haircut some
days ago. My hair was pretty lengthy (was growing for about 3 years), and
the moment I arrived back home his behaviour changed. Does anyone have an
idea to solve this situation, or just answer why does he do this now? Is it
because he doesn’t recognize me anymore?
My bird bites when he doesn’t want to do something. For instance, he likes
to snuggle up to my neck and sometimes I do not like it, when I try to get
him off, he bites quite hard and this is just one example. How do I stop
this?
I wish u could train my parakeet.
Parrots and parakeets are kind of alike .
Ma gold n blue macaw gt to bite ma hand
Whats up with the bird behind you
My parrot doesn’t bite hard, but my parrot is really crazy. He won’t stay
still and will fly everywhere. Sometimes he don’t like us to touch him
because, he thinks we’ll put him back at the cage and that’s when he starts
biting. What should i do?
the mccaw in the back is stressed out it seems, he/ she has been plucking
its feathers off
this helped so much
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i want to bite u …..u made me horny …i must mate with u..
Why is the cockatoo in the background have no feathers on its body?
ive had my budgie for about 3 months, and he is from the petstore, and he
has never bit me if i tried to touch him. he wasnt scared of me anymore,
and didnt care if i tried to pick him up. but recently, he has been trying
to run away from my finger if i tried to take him from his cage, so i tried
giving him millet each time i tried to have him step up when he was in the
cage. that didnt work, and instead, he started biting my hand, but rarely.
i think that he might have been affected when we had guests and the kids
tried handling him when i wasnt around. well, today if i tried to get him
to step up (he knows how to, but never does it in the cage, only on my
finger) he would bite. he would keep running away if i tried to get him to
step up. im wondering whatr could be the problem, and if anyone can help,
please let me know what i can do!
What’s with the naked parrot?
thank you soo soo much for the open captioning!!! Deaf people love birds
too!!!!
My parrot has been trained that biting is a game, and he is very
aggressive.How can I correct this behavior?
My bird bites because he likes my hand too much! Holds my hand down to
wrestle.
my conure bites me when i do the slow bite
you look sad
I have a better way, take a stick and if he bite you just hit him on his
head and repeat that until he understand that this move is not allowed
Miss Elisabeth can u come to my home make my parrot to stop biting I live
in india
My grey start barking like a dog
And biting my hands
My ring neck parrot two months age fully showing the grown up behavior all
the way, and the main thing she biting and opening all paper packs and food
item which is in paper pack. its really annoying me. he bites when he is
busy with this job. and he is so lovely when he rests, please give an
advice.