 Okay guys, it was hard for me to get in here because Cody, what was upside down like that? Okay, so as soon as I got home they were screaming their heads off which may seem like something that I'm so used to and I am but sometimes when I'm so used to things I forget to mention them to you guys. So yes, let's talk about when you come home. Your bird might scream his head off when you come home and in this case there's two of them. Look how excited they are to come out. And don't take that as a bad thing. That's actually a great thing. That means that your bird's excited and means your bird's excited to see you and wants to spend time with you. Okay, so that's one thing you guys have to understand is you cannot get frustrated at these things like oh my god my bird is loud or my bird is screaming his head off when I come home. That means they are greeting you and you need to go over and greet your bird. We're really doing like basic bird care 101. I'm very big on understanding parrot behavior. As you guys notice I'm more into helping you guys understand the birds emotions and behaviors than I am into teaching you how to get your birds to do tricks and things like that because I really grew up with birds and I just want you guys to understand all their little cues and quirks. Yes, okay so for those of you who never had a bird your bird may scream his head off. These two have been screaming their heads off ever since I got home because as a common courtesy birds want you to say hello and you also have to say hello to your birds before you say hello to any other animal in the house now while that may not seem fair my dog he won't really care he'll be like at least she said hi to me birds will be like she didn't say hi to me first what is going on I've been waiting they've also been waiting they're in a cage you are their entertainment so now when you get home what do you want to do with your birds you don't just want to come to them and say hi like through the cage that's not gonna do it you have to bring them out you have to interact with them you have to play with them if you commit to getting a bird that is your job it really is now it's not something that should feel like a job it should feel amazing you should be excited to hang out with your birds let's talk about step up when you get a new bird you want to teach him to step up right now if he doesn't step up you could try to tap him a little bit if he's not getting the memo you could see if he's better at stepping back okay but if that doesn't work you have to play the step-up game with wow so he stepped up but since he was a little hesitant you want to make sure that you do step up and actually physically play the game with a reward Jersey is so jealous guys I don't know what I'm gonna do what you would want to do to play the step-up game is you would tell your bird step up and if he steps up you would make a big deal out of it you'd be like good bird and you would clap for him and or give him a treat it depends on how motivated your bird is and what you find drives him some birds are extremely driven by food so then you want to give him his apple or his treat or whatever but you don't want to stop doing it so let's do it again step up step up baby see so he probably needed some positive reinforcement besides for that like a treat okay so here's some tricks you can do if they're not stepping up you can lift their little footsies and show them you see I'm giving him like a little lift yeah and while you're doing that you want to lower this hand and make it a little less stable because birds always want to go to the next stable spot as you can see and then you tell him again step up yay good bird if your bird is not stepping up you might also want to dip this finger make it a little unstable in itself like that so you lower it step up good bird what a good bird are you talking a lot so this is something that you want to do as soon as you get your bird home no matter how tame your bird is Jersey's literally watching TV with George having a jealous anxiety attack because I'm here with these two now she doesn't exactly know that these two are here but she knows that Cody followed me and she didn't get to follow me these are the kind of things you're gonna have to try to understand and figure out about your bird so Jersey screaming in the back is not just an annoying bird screaming in the back she has a reason and it becomes your job to figure out what that reason is also she hears my voice so I'm part of her flock and I'm here but she can't see me this is very alarming for a cockatoo these are all things that you have to consider you have to become like the next best bird psychologist and when you get really good at understanding birds that's not gonna sound annoying to you that's gonna sound like a bird in distress and you're going to want to fix it and so that's what I do and that's why my bird said to be quiet all day long because I know what they want honestly so somebody bit my ear not hard but still now Nellie is liking my shoulder so she does not want to step up off my shoulder so she could really benefit from some positive reinforcement step up learning like we just did with Monty what I'm doing now as you could see when I go to give her love when I ask her to step up she puts her head down she tells me she's like no no no no and second thought I think it would be much better if you scratched my head so should I give in to her probably not I probably should continue with my step-up training this would be a lot easier if there was only one bird here but I only got one hand available and she's taking total advantage of it not only that but because she is a new bird to this house like her getting loved is not something that I don't want to give I want her to feel loved as there's a lot of noise in this house today oh can't she loves head scratches guys look at what a sweet bird she is she kisses my hand like wherever Cody just said love you Monty what do you think of all this so I try to make some like moves that maybe if you're not accustomed to birds yeah you don't want to just jump into like you see like I go for his head and then I like test out the cheeky and it worked but a move like that could get you bit with a new bird so you want to be aware step up baby oh she's after my ear she's jealous and then she laughs now I want to show you she is not gonna step off me because she loves it there so one problem that we have with her is that she's very territorial and aggressive on the shoulder she's biting my ear she's bossing me around and when I come to get her off she wants a head scratch and me giving in is only gonna make it really hard for me to ever teach her how to get off my shoulder she's doing everything she can so right now this bird is not learning that she ever has to get off my shoulder what about you Monty you're just like a cute little guy they're getting a sniff now guys something very funny is like sometimes birds like get their sniff like where they are I just get mesmerized by birds what did you guys hear Cody he said Marlene at least you guys get to hear Cody in the back okay see oh Monty will step down but we got to get Nellie to a position of learning to step down right Nellie oh we can't you cute face mmm now lead did you say now by the way I swear Monty says hey and somebody said something about baby I swear you hear Cody you said you want Cody go up here can you go up the stairs now she literally kisses me when I want to take her off okay I'm gonna show you guys a little trick that I use to get the bird off my shoulder when I can now first of all you guys remember we had this tool that is very useful for teaching a bird to perch it could be anything that your bird isn't scared of if your bird scared of it that's totally gonna backfire but this bird was totally used to perching up here so that would be a perfect trick to get her off okay yeah she's happy now one thing you guys should know about these birds if you separate them they kind of call each other to go see what's wrong with Jersey do you guys want to sit here and do birdie stuff and and and then I won't watch you and I'll watch the camera later and see what you did what you want to come to me okay I'm gonna go see what's wrong with my Jersey bird what you guys here Cody say I love you and did you say Nellie I left the room for a bit and then they were hanging over here on the side say Nellie I'm gonna leave did you guys hear Cody say Marlene what are you doing this is so hard having birds in quarantine because it's like all my birds want me to be with them so Jersey screaming cuz she can't see me Cody's over there yelling cuz he can't see me he do hear Cody saying Marlene Marlene and these two scream if they don't see me so I'm like being pulled so many different ways and I don't have that many limbs okay so I'm gonna show you guys something whoa love you come here alright guys if you have two birds you have to give them equal attention so therefore everything you do you have to do with them so you see okay she left I don't know where she's going but you guys should know about birds what are you doing one thing you guys should know about birds is that it's good to just be with them like if you're watching TV just hang out with them if you are see my birds are crazy right now she can't see me