flying Parrot in the park

[nicollettePerfect]

how do u know if ur bird is ready to fly outside? does it work with quakers?

[xTallimx]

What type of parrots is that?

[nicollettePerfect]

@xTallimx

its a sun conure

[xTallimx]

@nicollettePerfect By the time you replied i found it like 10mins after i posted that comment XD and i bought one lol XD,But i find bigger interest in Mynah bird and my dad's Avocado parrot.

[nicollettePerfect]

@xTallimx

awww! how beautiful!!!!! still waiting 2 get a parrot..... few more months ;)

[xTallimx]

@nicollettePerfect Get a Lovebird it's like pacific parrotlet and doest just as fine as a conure and a pacific parrotlets do.

[nicollettePerfect]

@xTallimx

yeah i was going to at 1 point but im not possitive which bird i am going 2 get! thanks ;)

[KableTdi]

dude stop putting water on him you dont need to drain all the bottle for god sake.. a few is enough

[olithegreat]

Parrots are AWESOME!!!

[ballsthatclank]

If you love your bird, you'll clip their wings. Don't learn this lesson the hard way.

[vidkidxyz]

THIS IS THE MOST STUPID THING YOU COULD POSSIBLY DO WITH YOUR PET BIRD!

Hawks, poisons, loud noises causing "flight", and a multitude of unexpected catastrophies are likely to happen and you will be very sad when it takes the life of your pet. NEVER DO THIS!!!

[MyrAge219]

i didnt train him so he just flew away

[crmfghtr]

We have a Macaw and the wife was away and I had it on a tree stand outside by house with me. I spooked her by accident and she had never flown well, this time was in for shock of my life. She flew up over tree tops and into forest about 50 yards from my house, fortunately I kept her in line of site. She was stuck in tree 40 feet up, getting her down was fiasco. Maybe this teaching them to fly right and come to you is a pretty good idea. She didn't know what to do!

[doctorwho1117]

@crmfghtr how did you get it down then?

[crmfghtr]

@doctorwho1117 As if something out of a B movie I look down and here is a dead narrow tree extremely long and noarrow right by her tree. So I run to house and get ladder and bring over there and lift tree up and she got down onto it.

[doctorwho1117]

@crmfghtr awesome. when our rainbow lorikeet got spooked and took off , and ended a fair way up a tall tree on someones property. i had to climb the tree , and, at full stretch offered my hand and after some pleading he jumped on. then i gingerly climbed down , keeping hand steady . onlookers pleased with my performance (and his). then i walked briskly to car, pleading with him not to try that stunt again. have now ordered aviator harness.

[crmfghtr]

@doctorwho1117 Whoa that must have been quite the scare too! Thankfully you could climb tree! Haha, did you get applause from the onlookers?

[vidkidxyz]

HAWKS = ONE DEAD PARROT.

and when it happens you won't be able to save him.

[emp0023]

Such a wonderful Bird you got there!

I was wondering if this would work with pigeons?

[vaporeon333xxx]

would it work for an indian ringneck?

[nicollettePerfect]

@vaporeon333xxx

i believe it does. i dont have 1 but i have seen others do it, b4 u listen 2 me look it up n utbue n see how others do it.

:)

[MrCaptainswank]

too much water the bird was done before you refilled the bottle.

[bossman12334]

he didint loook like he liked the water being poured on him lol

[imfromtambunan]

does your parrot ever show signs or a distinct personality?

[thejordanriggs]

Just a few weeks ago, I learned the hard way that regardless of how well-trained a bird is, the unthinkable can happen. I can't count how many times we'd taken my Sun-Jenday conure outdoors- without incident- and all it it took was one time of him getting spooked at an empty school soccer field to almost cause tragedy. He got spooked and spent 27 hours in the woods...it's amazing he survived such a cold, wet Alaskan night.

[thunderinthevalley]

PLEASE be careful. No matter how well trained your parrot is, THINGS HAPPEN. motorcycles, thunder, fireworks, noise. ANYTHING can startle it and he will fly away and never come back. I dont mean to be mean but it happened to me and i was absolutely sick with dread until somebody found my cockatiel , he was 10 miles away and thankfully ok.

better safe than sorry

[kingjayapala]

@thunderinthevalley

A hawk may also suddenly appear from nowhere.

[SPYRO77HASTINGS]

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[mouse264]

Guys this won't work unless you and your bird are 120% certain that they know what to do. Don't just go outside and throw your bird, you'll lose him/her. This needs training.

[thunderinthevalley]

@mouse264 even with training there is still a chance you might lose it forever

[CloneJP]

Papagaio esperto

[iluvhorses9616]

Have you ever tried this with lovebirds?

[Avatar1293]

Amazing!!! what type of Parrot is he??

[Zarazon]

@Avatar1293 He is a Sun Conure, they are really pretty birds..

[hakstian]

What kind of bird is it?I love the orange

[ifaoduistheway]

HE WILL FLY AWAY ONE THEY,,,BEWARE

[Apocalypse487]

My quaker liked baths too. The only place he ever flew to was the kitchen sink.

[MrJm99]

i recently just got 2 quakers & im hoping to do this with them one day

[nal2us2]

is do not clip a quinn martin production? starring judge lance ito as oj simpson?

Please advise.

[Indigozek]

What a beautiful bird.

[EmiouForever]

@JonDuanePerry Thanks for telling me :) Darn.. I guess i have to find another way to get it sunlight

[MegaSnakefan]

@Alexanderextreme012 you can train any bird to fly outside

[spacebooboo]

my budgie is pretty attached to me i was thinking to maybe try this with him in the future. when he is a bit older though because he is only 1 year right now.

[reyjeffaidendx]

will it work with a green cheek conure

[smudgesquirt]

Aww (:

I'm just scared of my bird flying away... I don't have it yet but I should clip them until hes used to me, right? Then I will let them grow out.

I'm not sure what bird I want, I saw a macaw at a parrot rescue I like, But This will only be my second birds (I had like 5 finches), so I think I might want to go w/ a quaker parrot or parakeet before a macaw! But the macaw is so pretty, she is green and her wings are like glossy dark blue (:

[whirled100]

my bird hates to take a bath xD

[JonDuanePerry]

@Alexanderextreme012 I'm not sure but you can talk to people on the free flight list. Google "Chris Biro" and you'll find the yahoo group he started about flying parrots. Someone there will be able to tell you more.

[sammymunir]

@JonDuanePerry Wow that is a beautiful Sun Conure, I was at my cousins house and they had parakeets and i feel in love with them so now i am getting a parakeet parrot!

[JonDuanePerry]

@sammymunir check out the website MyPetParakeet to see the website I'm currently building about parakeets. It has some articles that may help you as you start out. I recently got a little budgie parakeet to keep Apollo company. She's a blast.

[3605michi]

@sammymunir i want a parrot too!!!

[AsadGstar]

do you think this could ework with a smaller bird like a cockatiel?

[JonDuanePerry]

@AsadGstar I hear it doesn't work well with cockatiels. There is a free flight group on yahoo run by Chris Biro. If you join that you may be able to talk to cockatiel owners about that.

[Jonimusic11]

owls, hawks, and avian TB

[19705454]

Amazing!!!!!

[lti12]

what do you think about senegal parrots, are they good for free

flight outside, and do you have to wean the bird yourself in order for it to trust you enough to not fly away?

[lti12]

great job guys. Parrot owners should not clip there wings its crippling the bird

[cichmugs]

why do you say that it cripples them. should i stop. but when he flies in the house he hits the window. i have a meyers parrot. does it do more harm than good?

[combusts1995]

@cichmugs if he's hitting windows that's bad. you need to put a blind over them because the glass does a lot of damage

[agentsamaniego]

who trained apollo?

[JonDuanePerry]

Jon (that's me) and Dasha are Apollo's trainers. but he of course taught him self to fly. We just never had him clipped. All we did after he was good at flying in the house is teach him to come on command and stay when we told him to.

He's naturally very obedient.

[KezzfromOz]

Apollo is just adorable! I managed to get a glimpse of your website, you're obviously working on it now, but wow - can't wait till it's up and running - really well designed and the fact you'll have tips, training vids and a blog on there is really exciting.

It's funny how some people think they can watch a video for one minute and know your bird better than you do - keep up the good work and expect the neg comments - ppl cant help themselves.

I think you're remarkable.

[tuskcat]

Beware of hawks because your little innocent orange bird is like a flashy fish lure to a hungry hawk

[timoxomit]

Does this work with parrotlets? And must they be young, like 6 weeks old? Because I'm getting 2 parrotlets for chrismas, both of them will be 6 weeks old by that time, and I really want to train them to safely fly outside and not fly away. Can u tell me how to train them? The only thing I know what the person and the parrot must love each other a lot, that's the main step.

[260191894]

Amazing: that's the best for a bird! I bet it's healthy and lean!

[picatsoforfma]

Does this work with canaries? Or budgies?

[JonDuanePerry]

@picatsoforfma I don't know. I hear it doesn't work well with cockatiels

[ifaoduistheway]

@picatsoforfma LOL...HELL NO,,,

[maximum411]

@picatsoforfma

My neighbor had a canary and he opened its cage and let it fly out the window during the day. It would circle around the house and then return to its cage. I don't think this would work if you took it somewhere new, though. The bird's bond was to the cage, not the people.

[CreamRocks1]

@picatsoforfma You can train them to do this but it is REALLY not recommended for small birds like Budgies and Cockatiels, because wild birds can an will take off with your bird.

[bebopbarbi]

I ment to say wet! Opps! But really who are you? Don't share outside flying! It's extremely unsafe!

[JonDuanePerry]

Im Jon Duane Perry. Who are you?

[bebopbarbi]

Went bird outside real safe! You shouldn't advertise training! Try it with a moluccan!

[joemcneal]

Yeah, he likes it so much, he keeps trying to get away.

[susan987654]

Well, he certainly seems to enjoy being able to fly freely outside. Even though it would worry me to let my birds fly outside, it's so much better than clipping their wings and making them sit inside a cage all day!

[susan987654]

Aren't you worried a cat or something might cause your bird to panic and fly away?

[ActingFaith]

Apollo flies toward familiar things when frightened (us, the car, or a near by tree). We don't worry about cats getting him. We do worry about hawks and other birds though.

If a bird is hungry it won't think twice about diving down in front of a human in order to catch its prey.

For this reason, we always fly with at least two people watching the sky for danger.

[petrollers]

Nice and expensive bird. I hope you still have him because I have lost lots of parrots in the past. They are really nice and tame if trained properly until a hawk comes by. I have shifted to flying pigeons at parks because they seem to be more suitable.

[JonDuanePerry]

Apollo is still doing well. One thing that helps is that at this particular park there are about 10 crows living in the surrounding forest that feed off of the park trash. They send an alarm when hawks venture near. They have helped us keep Apollo safe so far (over a year and a half of outdoor flights)

[flychomperfly]

Cute baby! You can tell he was loving his bath. :)

[maffei123]

cool! how much are they???

the conure???

I really wish you could teach me how to do that! that training!

[tannnnnnnnnnnnnnnk]

i also got a sun conure they are good birds which love water my sun conure's name is billy and he cant go without at least 3 baths a day i got my sun coinure for $790 he is nearly 1 please upload more vids of ur sun conure it is a great bird

[LindaandCooper]

Do you own the website dont-clip?

[e4ezzie]

beutiful bird!!!

[cornyBandsaltyG]

after a while i think you bird is getting annoyed with you pouring water on it.

[JonDuanePerry]

He flies away when he's done taking a shower

[dico1981]

That is so cute

[Tranquillizer]

Good Bird.