Ingrid, The Blue Throated Macaw, Free Flight

Ingrid, blue throated macaw free flying outside her home. I had the opportunity to see Ingrid fly on 9-27-2009. Ingrid is very calculating and has mastered her flying skills!

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Free
• Flying
• Parrot

[wingnutz2]

Hi, Ingrid as well as most macaws flies faster than any hawk. We have had many scares with hawks and with Ingrids percision flights she can out manuever them!

[flychomperfly]

@pntdblack you're right -- no you don't 'just release them'!! surely not!! you spend weeks (sometimes months), TRAINING them -- preparing them. don't make it sound as if ingrid was just tossed up into the sky one day. that's not what freeflyers do.

also, macaws are BIRDS -- they learn where home is and don't get lost--parrots use sight to navigate. so, pet birds that aren't experienced outside won't know 'home'--they won't even recognize the area. no surprise they get lost.

[flychomperfly]

@pntdblack never said i knew 'all' -- i just know a whole bunch about freeflight, and since you don't, you shouldn't be rude. just get the facts and you might learn too. you don't have to take my word for it--look on youtube, it's not difficult to find facts from experts who have been doing this for many years. people who train properly, like ingrid here was trained, don't lose birds to a gust of wind.

watch video 'Wings To The WInd' by chrisbiro1 -- see pet macaws in high winds

[pntdblack]

@flychomperfly Excuse me what makes you the expert on macaws. Your an idiot to think you know it all. What are the macaw whisperer? lol

[flychomperfly]

@pntdblack macaws certainly out-maneuver hawks. you don't know anything about macaws. yes, the situation can be dangerous, and if the macaw doesn't see the hawk in time--even deadly. but hawks don't spend a lot of energy on quick maneuvers, and macaws are full of them! a hawk wouldn't risk a long, complicated chase. it's not a good idea to take chances if a hawk is near. but the macaws DO see hawks and they're not dumb and helpless--they alert and protect themselves if they see one

[flychomperfly]

@pntdblack i have met ingrid--this isn't my macaw. i have done my research and personally know several people who freefly--including those who have been flying multiple birds for 2 decades. you obviously have no contact with freeflyers.

and if you have heard stories of macaws flying away for the reasons you said, they were not trained and probably not even skilled flyers.

look up chris biro videos--TONS of freeflighted birds--they are let out each day, hang out, and return in eve

[pntdblack]

@flychomperfly I understand you wanting to let them fly free as nature intended them to,but in there natural habitat not out of our hands. Also in there natural habitat they learn from each other how to survive in the wild. I too am guilty of owning one but Ive seen what the birds of prey are capable of. They have been gifted with an ability to catch there prey with maneuvering speed and once they zero in on a target there is no turning back or letting go.

[pntdblack]

@flychomperfly Do you realize that a Peregrine falcon can dive at speeds of approximately 150 miles per hour. Macaws are not birds of prey they cannot out maneuver a falcon or some of the larger birds of prey. Your foolish to think a macaw can out maneuver one of these. I suggest you do some research before you lose your beautiful macaw!

[pntdblack]

@flychomperfly Its a macaw not a homing pigeon. You don't just release them and throw caution to the wind. I've heard of numerous stories of macaws flying away for the reasons I mentioned. How long have you been free flying macaws? Is this the first one?

[flychomperfly]

@pntdblack ...and most importantly...there is a danger, but not what you are saying. the worst thing that usually happens to TRAINED freeflighted birds is...

that they are too trusting and get picked off by HUMANS. sometimes the humans think they are lost, but many times the humans want to keep or sell the birds. that is the main problem that all freeflyers have across the world--all countries. it's the worst part of freeflight, and is the hardest part of the training process.

[flychomperfly]

@bobblimp what cruel and untimely death? she loves to fly and it's an exhilaration that clipped birds never get to experience. a harness would prevent her from doing the jinking and fun maneuvers this bird loves to do in the wind--they play in the air. why do you want a yoke on this bird--a bird that has already proven her ability to freefly?

what a cruel thing to say about a creature that knows freedom and the wind--yet still comes home. she would think she's being punished.