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We started Avian Behavior International with the idea of putting our ideas into action, and 2023 marks our TEN YEAR that anniversary of doing just that. We thought including your ideas, your work, your cool training, and your conservation in our very first conference would be the best way to celebrate. Enter, AvOCET in March 2023, our virtual conference! January 1 is the last day to send in abstract for consideration and be part of the conversation. We have amazing submissions with really daring
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The families that dine together... swine together?? Mini donkey Pepper, pigs Tater and Dorothy, and emu Lois frequently share their meals together, even though they each get different kinds of pellets and leafy veggies. On warmer days, the emu loves a good wallow in cool swampy mud with the pigs! It's amazing to watch them interact in the pasture, how well they share grazing "rights." The donkeys nibble on thistles and soft shoots, the pigs love acorns, which aren't great for them... :( but also
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Our MemberFest for the Avian Behavior Lab has kicked off with a huge bang! This is our second anniversary of our online animal behavior and training education program and our members are incredible. Sponsors for our member event giveaways include Marshall Radio Telemetry, Foraging Parrot, My Safe Bird Store, Gary Boberg and G&B ranch, Hoot ‘N Holler Bird Toys, Paige Davis and many more giveaways from our own treasure chest. Live features include training demos throughout the day, live podcast re
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Feeding time for this cutie! It’s our newest avian ambassador… a kookaburra. Or as we call them, our kookababy 🥰 | Avian Behavior Conservancy
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Feeding time for this cutie! It’s our newest avian ambassador… a koo…
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Have you ever had training or behavior advice that seems to be everywhere but isn’t serving you and the bird you work with? We explore the really deep and challenging topic of the humane hierarchy and LIMA, where these concepts came from, like how intrusive is actually a legal term and is a construct, and how our subjective interpretation of them can hinder our training progress. When it was coopted in the dog training community in the 1970’s, it was used interchangeably with restrictiveness, bu
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During the breeding season, behavior, reinforcers, and flight patterns change. Guinness the Eurasian Eagle Owl gets extra hooty, sometimes even when he lands on guests gloves 😆 Interactions that would never be ok off breeding season take on a different meaning and baseline levels of awareness are raised with territorial calls of other raptors like red shouldered and red tailed hawks increasing. Food exchange in raptors is a delicate matter only done with mates and offspring. In falcons you can
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Happy International Vulture Awareness Day!! Don’t have botulism? Thank a vulture. Don’t suffer from rabies? Thank a vulture. No Worries with anthrax? Yep, thanks, vultures. These birds are the end users to so many pathogens and bacteria, they stop the spread of many harmful things found in carrion in the environment. Thanks to EVERYONE who has donated to our fundraising raffle for Andean Condors so far! We have raised over $300 and hope to meet our goal of $500 by September 7th. You can help And
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Whew! [fans self] Say hello to Rio, the King Vulture. Coming to us from another education facility, this gorgeous girl is 30 years old and joining the rest of the education vulture team here at ABI. We ❤️ scavengers | Avian Behavior Conservancy
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Whew! [fans self] Say hello to Rio, the King Vulture. Coming to us fro…
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Our latest project is just starting to hit full tilt. And this little squirt is providing a welcome office distraction from our long days. | Avian Behavior Conservancy
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Our latest project is just starting to hit full tilt. And this little squirt is …
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Animal behavior and training is a science, which means progress is built on the work of the community. When an individual rebrands scientific terms to create their own proprietary language, it is not in the best interest of the animal and humans they serve. It creates confusion and muddies the lineage of the concepts. No one gets anywhere on their own. We all need each other. I like to say my kind of kink is when someone cites their sources. It promotes sharing, teaching and a safe learning spac
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I was attempting to discuss the follies of poor experimental design courtesy of none other than John James Audubon, who shaped the false perception that birds can’t smell using faulty methodology. Dallas the turkey vulture had other ideas of what we should be doing with our time. Being a bird trainer, science nut, and conservation all at one time definitely has its perks! 😅 | Avian Behavior Conservancy
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I was attempting to discuss the follies of poor experimental desig…
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Our weekly newsletter talked about the link between behavior and diet, highly relevant based on our latest podcast with veterinary nutrition expert and avian genius (my words, not his), Dr Scott Echols. Many of the toys that we give our parrots inadvertently encourage feeding our birds way too rich of diets, from the foraging spinning wheels, the baffle cages often called the nut cages, and others teaching us how to create foraging for our birds. Being aware of this type of visual messaging is s
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Our weekly newsletter talked about the link between behavior and diet…
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Ethology matters when it comes to optimizing your bird’s welfare in behavior science. Understanding how to maximize their comfort and minimize stress based on what they are adapted to do in order means that we can also minimize aversives. For instance, by introducing the Screech Owl to new environments and stimuli at the age he would naturally be more curious, I reduce what would be a natural aversion to these when he is older. It’s like learning a new language when you are young vs older. You c
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Ethology matters when it comes to optimizing your bird’s welfare in b…
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Do you use food to train your parrot? That's what we talk about in episode 51 of the Avian Behavior Podcast! Lots of discussion over the years has wrapped around this subject whether food should play a part in our interactions. We talk about why trust isn't a foregone conclusion, how we can build skills to reduce stress, confusion, and increase communication and mutually beneficial behaviors. And of course, food isn't the only nor the main reinforcer out there, it's one of many! But it can play
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The studies looking at animal behavior and problem solving skills are endlessly fascinating, but the true challenge is understanding what exactly it is we are studying without tripping over our own biases. This is something we explored in our last podcast and YouTube, famously referring to the myth that apes understand sign language and Alex the African Grey Parrot was capable of language as well. The string pulling experiment is one that many researchers thought reflected causal reasoning, the
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A big part of our birds’ jobs is going to programs confidently and being able to handle unpredictable conditions. Training for this starts at home, helping them work through different puzzles and challenges that aren’t straightforward, like crating voluntarily. Aldo is demonstrating how “motivation” to get into the crate works. I use the same sized bit of food and change the conditions for entry. So it’s not that he wasn’t hungry or motivated enough, he just didn’t have the skills for what I was
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When you’re excited to learn to crate voluntarily, but still not ready to always go inside. Rio the king vulture was never trained to step in a crate in her 30 years but road around all the time for education programs. As a legacy ambassador, she was part of a program that used many traditional methods and served her community well. We are reworking her behaviors to create voluntary options but it isn’t a clean slate. She does have history with these objects and stimuli before. It isn’t just abo
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Speaking of exercise and body scores, when you’re working with injured birds or even certain species that are more terrestrial, like ground hornbills, keel scores are ineffective measures of body condition. Linus the white necked raven recovered from lead poisoning from tainted meat, but lost the ability to fly, so his pectoral muscles are much different than our other raven, Forrest’s. Bird caregivers know that they still need exercise to maintain health and fitness, but implementing a program
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The answer is Yes, it is like a dream working with an Andean condor in this setting. And truly the best part about it is being able to share it in the way so that people can experience the charisma and power of an incredible bird that maybe feels far away in geography and in purpose. | Avian Behavior Conservancy
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It’s National Bird Day, and we are celebrating with a day full of families to share birds with. We hope your 2025 is off to a bird-tastic start and we look forward to a year full of more wonderful things to come. Thanks for caring about birds the way that you do! | Avian Behavior Conservancy
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Enrichment for Percy the laughing kookaburra is enrichment for trainers 😂 The smacking behavior is a natural behavior kookaburras do to their prey to soften it for a nice easy gulp | Avian Behavior Conservancy
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Enrichment for Percy the laughing kookaburra is enrichment for train…
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Proof positive that when a parrot asks to step up and you have other plans in mind, you get to see the dinosaur come out 😂😂 Leo the hyacinth macaw is the most polite asking for a step up with his spider toes just dangling expectantly. But don’t be fooled: once he steps up, you get to see the first date clinger status that his personality truly embodies! | Avian Behavior Conservancy
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No matter what job in the animal field you get into, it’s all about the people. From effectively communicating science to proper animal care practices, being able to work with people is still a top priority. In the animal industry we often hear from others that they don’t get along with people, which is why they want to work with animals. Talking with people is honestly my favorite part! Sharing with others my love for birds, what makes them so dang incredible and worth changing our habits for u
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No matter what job in the animal field you get into, it’s all about th…
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Condors and some other species of large vulture are bullies. In fact, at a carcass feeding, there is a distinct role and order of feeding for each species. Knowing this about a bird’s natural history helps us understand what natural reinforcers are and how you can avoid reinforcing undesirable behavior. Behavior around food even if not hungry can be intense with these big birds, and you want to be careful with your mechanics. This is something @eaglefalconer and I have great conversations about
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Condors and some other species of large vulture are bullies. In fact, a…
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Secondary and non-food reinforcers can play a huge part in our bird training and yes, even birds of prey! In a positive reinforcement training program, we want to look at all of the reinforcing properties a behavior has, rather than narrow the lens at just one. Owls value routine, so when they are confident in what they can predict when the behavior happens, the behavior will be more fluent. Relocate an owl to a new territory, and it won’t fare well. Hornbills like Kipling are also territorial,
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Secondary and non-food reinforcers can play a huge part in our bird tr…
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Our interns have two projects to complete during their term here: a training project and an organizational project. Tori wanted to work Banjo, and she taught her how to play basketball. When her project was complete, Katie put together this cute video. You’re welcome for the earworm! | Avian Behavior Conservancy
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