Amazon's flight

davefv92c

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Lily has started flying as her main mode of transportation.
her flight strikes me kind of funny. it is sorta like she will get up in the air kinda hover turn herself in the direction she wants to go and then off to that spot which is either my shoulder, or Max's cage or her's. also goofy as heck for some reason she has figured her best landing spot is right on the top of my head. i have a high back office chair where sometimes she lands there first then up in the air again and the hovering thing to the top of my head.
flight sound pretty normal?
 

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New flyers and reflighted Parrots commonly have not considered where they are going to after they launched, or have changed their mines, and it is not uncommon for them to hover as they consider their options.

The best ways to help them is to work to provide them flight paths starting at the cage and working outwards or from common landing spots either back to the cage or other landing spots. This is done by having them on your hand and fast walking those paths and than landing them on safe places.

I consider it very important to teach these paths as a way to get them to lock in what they are doing prior to launch and more importantly, when something scares them, pre-learned , (if you will hard-wirred) paths take-over and this can greatly reduce the likelihood of them crashing into things.

Enjoy!
 

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Dave, congratulations on Lily discovering her inner aviator! Isn't it amazing to see that whole new world open up for them?

New flyers and reflighted Parrots commonly have not considered where they are going to after they launched, or have changed their mines, and it is not uncommon for them to hover as they consider their options.

The best ways to help them is to work to provide them flight paths starting at the cage and working outwards or from common landing spots either back to the cage or other landing spots. This is done by having them on your hand and fast walking those paths and than landing them on safe places.

I consider it very important to teach these paths as a way to get them to lock in what they are doing prior to launch and more importantly, when something scares them, pre-learned , (if you will hard-wirred) paths take-over and this can greatly reduce the likelihood of them crashing into things.

Enjoy!

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yessssssss! So true! Steven, you've laid it out perfectly! I actually believe consideration of where they might go post launch to be one of the primary differences between a bird that has been allowed to fledge and one that has had to learn later on. The bird that learns later can still become an accomplished flier, of course, but his/her navigational ability is something far more deliberate and far less instinctive.

Which brings us to the part of Steven's post I'd like to thank multiple times. The pre-determined flight path will significantly reduce crashes for fully flighted birds. If there are ample landing points provided throughout the home, even moments of panic are alleviated by the sight of familiar perches within reach. And drilling them repeatedly in the location of each of these landing spots will ingrain it for them.
 

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Count your blessings! Sammy (in my avatar) is a great flyer, but an horrific lander. At best, his landings are vaguely-controlled crashes and, at worst, they look like the crash at the beginning of the old "6 Million Dollar Man" TV show.

For some reason, when he flies, he never picks out a landing spot. He flies REALLY fast, then realizes that, in the living room, every single landing spot is going by too fast for consideration. Eventually, he just piles into something. One day, he stuffed himself into the paper port of my wife's computer printer...you could only see his tail feathers sticking out of the printer, and hear his "Oh oh..." sounds.:04:
 

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Count your blessings! Sammy (in my avatar) is a great flyer, but an horrific lander. At best, his landings are vaguely-controlled crashes and, at worst, they look like the crash at the beginning of the old "6 Million Dollar Man" TV show.

For some reason, when he flies, he never picks out a landing spot. He flies REALLY fast, then realizes that, in the living room, every single landing spot is going by too fast for consideration. Eventually, he just piles into something. One day, he stuffed himself into the paper port of my wife's computer printer...you could only see his tail feathers sticking out of the printer, and hear his "Oh oh..." sounds.:04:

Hahahahahahaha! Hilarious visual!

That reminds me of my dearly departed cockatiel, Suzie. He never got the chance to fledge, as he was clipped when I got him, so he had much the same issue as your Sammy. He was very deliberate, however, in his solution to his dilemma.

You see, instead of searching for an appropriate landing surface, he would eschew any and all horizontal landing spots and aim instead for the nearest wall once he was ready to come to a stop. He'd fly right up to said wall in a near hover, pushing forward until his head was pressed against it, and then flap his wings in a "controlled" descent until he hit the floor. Lol!

I miss that bird!
 

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