Life-stage guide
Step-up, recall, enrichment and preventing screaming or plucking.
A reliable recall builds a joyful bond and is a real safety skill if your bird ever escapes. Learn to train it indoors with rewards and tiny distances, and understand why outdoor free flight is a far riskier, specialist matter.
Once your bird is settled, training turns a nervous newcomer into a confident companion. This stage covers positive reinforcement, the foundational step-up, short daily sessions and reading body language — so you build genuine trust and useful skills without force or fear.
Target training teaches your bird to touch a stick for a reward, giving you a force-free way to guide it into carriers, onto scales and through tricks. Here is the simple step-by-step method and how to turn it into real-life skills.
Taming is about earning trust on the bird's terms, never forcing contact. Give a new bird time to settle, let treats and a soft voice do the work, and move at its pace. Here is a gentle, force-free path from wary to willing.
