Eddie's Flight Club

Eddie's Flight Club Parrot Trainer / Behaviourist
Rehabilitation & Rescue
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26/04/2025

A parrot’s behaviour is a product of a person’s relationship and history with him. It's important that we take responsibility for our birds’ behaviour, both good and bad. We aren't able to change what we dont acknowledge.
Parrot's live in the present. His history is important, but it does not define who he is tomorrow. What happens today has the greatest impact on his future. Don't be too disappointed when you have a bad training day or it feels like you have taken a step backwards. Failure is a necessary step on the path to achieving success, it can provide valuable learning opportunities and insights.
*repost (so much trouble lately)

26/04/2025

According to the principle of contrafreeloading (Jensen, 1963), a learner would rather earn their reinforcement than receive it for “free.”
I think Clancy's reinforcer is a job well done 😅
I was watching him play with his block and coin. I left some nuts on the floor for him as well. There is always time to stop for a snack now and then. 😅
I love how responsive he is when I call him. So reliable. Best boy. 👌 ❤️

HANDSOME GRIFFIN 🥹
25/04/2025

HANDSOME GRIFFIN 🥹

25/04/2025

Clancy likes to practice. It's been so frustrating to watch him sometimes. He is so much better at it now though. Practising some times on his own for ages

24/04/2025

I like watching the birds on their time. I kept the house quiet so I could film Griff today post training 😁 After a preen and a snooze he was looking for something to do. He spotted coins. This is a sequential problem, it requires him to complete multiple steps in a specific order so its interesting to watch in longer clips with less edits so we can see how he modifies his technique and what makes him lose focus etc. Especially while I stay quiet. He is such an interesting fella!

24/04/2025

Griffin's little feets 🥹🥹🥹
I can't deal with this much cuteness so early in the day. Are parrots left of right footed? An interesting question, right? Studies have shown most parrots to be left-footed. They prefer to eat or hold things with their left foot.This is what I mostly observe among the flock. Griffin, however likes to go against the grain. He uses both feet equally.
Fun fact - Not all parrots have the same amount of toe segments. They have a unique foot arrangement called zygodactylous, where two toes point forward and two point backward. This arrangement is designed for climbing and grasping. While all parrots have four toes per foot, the number of individual segments (bones) within each toe might vary slightly between species. Amazing nature

I found a baby photo of Zazu 🥹🥹🥹 Stop It!
23/04/2025

I found a baby photo of Zazu 🥹🥹🥹 Stop It!

23/04/2025

Eddie's Flight Club is proudly partnered with Vetafarm Together we strive to improve the lives of parrot's across the globe while educating their human carer's. Vetafarm foods are formulated by veterinarians for optimal health. A well-nourished parrot has an enhanced ability to learn and focus during training sessions. I see a noticeable reduction in behavioural problems like anxiety and aggression soon after transitioning our rescues on to a vetafarm diet which is hugely beneficial in training. Good nutrition is the foundation for success.

Vetafarm offers the biggest and most trusted product range for birds of every feather and hold accreditations from NATA, GMP and FeedSafe.
It is available in over 45 countries including the US, Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines.

22/04/2025

Not once in eight years has he left me to clean alone.
Remember ladies, if we wanted to, he would. 😉 Don't settle 😛
( I can't catch him talking) 🙄🤨

Macaw eyes are something special. This is one of my favourite captures ❤️ They're so beautiful. Vision is an incredibly ...
22/04/2025

Macaw eyes are something special. This is one of my favourite captures ❤️ They're so beautiful. Vision is an incredibly significant sense to parrots as it enables them to fly safely. They have a specialized visual system that gathers light and works to achieve complex processing of visuals. Unlike humans, parrots have a greater visual acuity. They collect and interpret visual images more quickly than humans. This is possibly the reason why your bird might often notice small movements and changes in its surrounding that you as a human might not notice. We see this often when out free flying.. If this change or movement makes the bird feel threatened, they might fly off or react.

20/04/2025

The Adventures of Echo.

It could be a good children's book 🤷‍♀️ Except for all the gun violence 😅

It's exactly four years ago today that Echo took to the sky on his very first free flying adventure. He was four years o...
20/04/2025

It's exactly four years ago today that Echo took to the sky on his very first free flying adventure. He was four years old and had been with us for just a few months. We have had so many adventures 😊

19/04/2025

Happy Easter Everybunny 🐰

19/04/2025

A shout out to our self appointed youth leader, Echo 😊🥹
These are old clips sorry the quality isn't great.

Echo will do anything for little people. He's great with kids whether he knows them or not.

How we Introduce parrots to kids can make or break their long-term relationship and their future relationship with parrots in general. We can teach kids to be safe and respectful but learning vocalizations and body language takes a little bit of time and practice. Most birds won't tolerate many mistakes but Echo will make exceptions for children all day. Adults not so much 😬

18/04/2025

This is an Echo appreciation post. 😁 It's simply not possible to fit them all in so there will have to be a part 2.

17/04/2025

Topaz & Tanzanite. Making the most of Mt Hedlow

16/04/2025

This is a Grffin appreciation post. It's not easy selecting clips from the archives but I was careful to include some all-time classics 😉😁

15/04/2025

Paddy update 🖤 Some of you have been asking how he is getting on. He is practising his tricks every day and is doing very well. Soon we will be teaching him some new things so there will be more clips of him on the page. He loves to use that beak so we are preparing to redecorate the aviary and bring in a new tree. He alone does more wood chopping than the rest of our tree loppers combined 😅

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