I hope you enjoy the book. It lays a really great foundation for understanding and training your new sun. If you need more help, get stuck, or just want to brag about how well he’s doing, I recommend joining the Bird Click group: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Bird-Click/ . It’s run by the author of the book, and the group does a fantastic job helping people who are in the process of clicker training their parrots.

In fact, I wrote that “This book will probably make her name live beyond all eternity!” (I told them to take out the “probably”, it makes me sound wishy washy)

But, seriously, once we understand how our bird companions feel it’s much easier to communicate with them and to teach them how to respond, and when they know they’re understood many other problems can be avoided and/or remedied. And happy birds are readily trained and well behaved and are a joy to have and to share.

CONGRATS ON A GREAT BOOK!

I don’t recall off the top of my head if the book covers humidity, but it does talk a little bit about health and how that’s an important foundation in a bird’s life. Luckily you can do things like start to improve a parrot’s diet at the same time as you’re training, so that shouldn’t hold you up. I find a lot of people delay training because they want to tame their bird or get them on a pelleted diet or whatever first before training, but that misses the point. In theory, clicker training can even help you teach your bird to try new foods, although that’s one thing I haven’t worked very hard on. (I still have some picky eaters who could be better about their veggies.)