Kili Senegal Parrot- Ring on Peg Trick and Flighted Ring On Peg

This video shows how I taught Kili, my Senegal Parrot, to do the ring on peg trick by color. So not only does Kili put the ring on the peg (which is the mechanical part of the trick) but she also picks the correct peg by matching the color of the ring to the color of the peg. One smart Senegal Parrot!

First, the Senegal Parrot puts 4 rings on their respective pegs by color (orange, pink, blue, and purple). The I have her fly to pick up each ring off the floor, fly onto the table, and then coordinate the color of the ring to the correct peg. I go through the flighted ring on peg trick twice in full to show that she really knows the trick. The first time through is cut up to save time but by the end of the session she was doing the trick so well and promptly that I left the last run through the trick completely uncut so that you could see that she really does the trick for real (no fancy cut/splicing, etc). Also, I tried to give her the rings in a random order and the pegs are lined in random order for each trick to demonstrate that she really knows the colors rather than just remembering the order to put the rings on or something.

Teaching the tricks is relatively simple but requires a lot of time and patience. I wrote about how to teach the ring on peg trick to parrots on my parrot forum here:

http://www.theparrotforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=228

Thanks for watching, hope you enjoyed the video.

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• Senegal Parrot
• How to
• Trick
• Train
• Training
• Teach
• Ring On Peg
• Ring
• Peg
• Color
• Match
• Parrot
• Poicephalus
• Senegalus
• Ring Toss
• Tricks

[austinrngr]

That is awesome. Where did you get those colored pegs with the colored rings. I can't find them anywhere.

[kiliparrot]

@austinrngr I make a set for medium sized parrots. PM me if you're interested in more info about ordering a set.

[Eaglesfaninca]

Very Very impressive! And I thought Alex the African Grey was the only parrot able to do this.

[kiliparrot]

@Eaglesfaninca Thanks for the compliment but this really is nowhere close to the intelligence that Alex demonstrated. Kili was learning under an operant conditioned methodology mainly based on trial and error. I really cannot be sure if she is matching the colors by concept or just be memorization of correlations like A to A, B to B. Alex was actually able to recognize colors, label properties such as shape, color, and material, and to quantify heterogeneous sets of objects based on properties.

[Fleagirl125]

How much color can parrots see? I love Kili! She is such a smart bird!

[kiliparrot]

@Fleagirl125 Better than you or me, that's for sure. They have superior color vision.

[MultiPetsa]

LOVELY KILI!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SerjickFM]

Video is good Супер  видео Kili молодец!!!!! :)

[austinrngr]

@kiliparrot I know your going to laugh but Im not sure how to PM you. I want a set

[naturegirl751]

he is so inteligent!

[xXxDeathnautxXx]

I just got 2 parakeets yesterday and one of them i can already pick u and put on my finger and the other when i try to pick her up she bites me........

Is that good for my first time handling birds?

[ilovecanines]

Excellent!

[scotscot100]

kili looks very cute & smart ^^

[BronxBombaz111]

Were you on Americas got Talent?