74 Training your bird for transportation

About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of training birds for transportation and provides tactical advice for shaping calm behavior in crates.

Training your bird for transportation isn't just an important part of education programming, it's a good life skill to have. For wildlife rehabilitation organizations, nature centers, and other small bird of prey centers, this is an essential skill that trainers rely on. For companion parrot people, this is an important behavior to trainer before it is needed in case of emergencies. This episode is an excerpt from our roadmap on Your Bird's First Education Program inside the Avian Behavior Lab. It's full of tactical advice on how to shape calm behavior for riding comfortably in a crate in a vehicle. We talk about what to do about tidbitting, why we don't use food very much to shape this behavior, and what we use to reinforce with instead. We discuss challenges with equipment and how to use context to shape the behavior. Support courses in the Avian Behavior Lab include our latest updated version of Crate Training, the roadmap, Creating a Training Program, and How to use context to shape a behavior.

People in this episode

Host: Hillary Hankey

Topics covered

• bird training
• transportation
• behavior shaping
• emergency preparedness
• wildlife rehabilitation

Keywords

• bird transportation
• crate training
• calm behavior
• training program
• emergency training

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Avian Behavior Lab, wildlife rehabilitation organizations, nature centers, small bird of prey centers

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