Merlee - Awesome on the update

Extra bonus points for more talking!!
Birdman - I laughed out loud about dropping toys on the head... our conures like to drop stuff on the cats if they are below or around the playstand, I swear they sit there and laugh.
Jen
That Dusky conure was a HOLY TERROR when we got him, and he was a HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE screamer...
I was not successful in teaching that bird not to scream...
HOWEVER, MY "FLOCK LEADER" RED LORED AMAZON, straightened his little butt right up.
Her boing was hung from the top of the window, above the conure playstand. Her favorite toy was a puzzle toy, where you had to untie knots to get the foot toys.
SOOOO... when this Dusky conure starts his little screaming fit, upsetting everyone in the human flock, she took it upon herself to "correct" his behavior.
She untied a foot toy, and bonked him in the head with it... hard enough to get his attention. She then climbed down her boing, and hung by one foot, until she was beak to beak with the little dusky, and let out the full blown shatter glass AMAZON war cry. Then she literally knocked the startled Dusky right off his playstand.
As he climbs back up, she goes to the top of her boing and unties a bead, and sits there dangling it over his head...
He is looking up, moves one way, she moves the bead, moves another way, she moves the bead...
The first time that little bird made a sound above a whisper, She dropped it on his head! Then untied another one, and dangled it...
AND THAT, MY FRIENDS, IS HOW MY DUSKY CONURE WAS TAUGHT TO STOP SCREAMING!!!
NOTHING I DID WORKED! NOTHING!!!
My amazon stopped that nonsense in one night.