Update/shoulder climbing help ;P

Hey there!

Update:
SO I have been spending more time with bonding with Sarah. After four days or so of treating her with chick peas, so wanted nothing to do with them. I tried differnet foods, but it is very obvious she is not food orientated. THe only thing I ahve been able to train her to do is to get inside the cage, and i ddi that by rewarding her peting her.

But, the time i spent reading to her seemed to calm her down. She has not tried to bite at all when she is in her cage (but still loves attacking the evil Dr. Blanket), and now litterally throws her foot in my face when outside her cage "PICK ME UP." if you ask me. But before i do so, I have a few concerns.

When my dad picks her up she now runs immediatly to his shoulders. This would be okay, but she picks at his hair, and pulls it out sometimes, picks at his ears, tries to take off his glasses and refuses to come down onto his hand again.

Plus, Sarah is most probably a boy...
Vet said "she" is too big to be a girl and has the boy eye color. But i do not see any major behavioral changes that could be caused by hormones yet.

Any tips on how stop the shoulder climbing behavior?

yea, go to this link..i think this link is a person off this site that talks here a lot not sure. but i think this is like the best video on youtube. very great video.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1uqxtZaTAs]TrainingVideo - Keeping Them Off Your Shoulder - YouTube[/ame]

If your bird is very insistince about climbing put a blocking hand and make him step up to the other hand and keep doing this or when he tries to get to your shoulder block him then put him on a perch for timeout he will learn quickly that going for the shoulder gets him a timeout (no fun) now this is not to say you can reward him for doing something right like not trying to climb place him on your shoulder and give him a treat to eat while there and then remove him after the treat is eaten this lets him know that the shoulder is privledege not his right.

Thanks to all of you who responded!

I will tell my dad to try this method with Sarah, and I hope that one day she will stop this behavior.