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A video capture on an acrobatic flight of macaw

Sorry for low quality video, it seems that the program converted automatically to adjust the size permitted

[ame="http://youtu.be/V6syV5E8toA"]Blue and Gold Macaw Free Style ~Indonesian Parrot Lovers~ - YouTube[/ame]
 

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Do you hear of people losing their parrots out there? Does that ever happen? I'm just curious since there are so many birds and some are not as experienced as others.

I also wonder if flying them in a large group helps signal the birds to return (when the rest of the group returns).
 
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Do you hear of people losing their parrots out there? Does that ever happen? I'm just curious since there are so many birds and some are not as experienced as others.

I also wonder if flying them in a large group helps signal the birds to return (when the rest of the group returns).

Yes... Once.
At that time a woman came and joined the training with cockatoo on her hand. She let the bird fly with others casually, and the bird getting freak out instantly and fly off. We were just shock to see. She was not the member of our club but since we are open for public, we always welcome everyone to join. After we inquired we found that the bird never be trained for freeflight, which we tought, looking on her confidence, the bird must be well trained. But sadly it was not.


IMHO Freeflight in a group is safer rather than individual flight. The birds tend to getting the same direction and return together. Once you have the skilled bird, you could use it as an anchor for the rest of the group's members. Of course, there are steps to let them know each other. Once they know their flock...they'll go fly together
 
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Last week , a national-aired tv station had a coverage on our parrot club. Here are the pics

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Line up of the fliers

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Graceful landing

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As for this week, we don't practice as usual... We are lucky to have the opportunity to freefly our fids from the rooftop platform, owned by one of our club member

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Here is the launching platform on rooftop

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#Continued

The flock member

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[ame="http://youtu.be/Szw8Gh4Wb08"]Urban parrot - YouTube[/ame]
 
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[ame="http://youtu.be/fxDuVgTo7t8"]Patagonian Conure Flying From The Roof Top - YouTube[/ame]

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Do you hear of people losing their parrots out there? Does that ever happen? I'm just curious since there are so many birds and some are not as experienced as others.

I also wonder if flying them in a large group helps signal the birds to return (when the rest of the group returns).

Yes... Once.
At that time a woman came and joined the training with cockatoo on her hand. She let the bird fly with others casually, and the bird getting freak out instantly and fly off. We were just shock to see. She was not the member of our club but since we are open for public, we always welcome everyone to join. After we inquired we found that the bird never be trained for freeflight, which we tought, looking on her confidence, the bird must be well trained. But sadly it was not.


IMHO Freeflight in a group is safer rather than individual flight. The birds tend to getting the same direction and return together. Once you have the skilled bird, you could use it as an anchor for the rest of the group's members. Of course, there are steps to let them know each other. Once they know their flock...they'll go fly together

Thanks for the explanations, that's very interesting. Unbelieveable how the woman who lost the cockatoo seemed to have no clue that it's something that takes much training!
 
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The woman's probably thinking that bird must look for her and fly back. Because it is super tame and has strong bonding.. But outdoor is very different situation.
 
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