How to teach "stay put" while cleaning cage

[vasiana]

I have read that zookeepers teach a technique called ‘station’ (stay put) while they go inside the cage and clean it. Does anybody know if that can be applied to my Yellow Crowned Amazon?
Paco is almost 1 year old (it’s his Birthday on June 1st!!!) and I clean his cage every morning.
I do not have any problems with him (bitting and stuff), but it would definitely make my life easier if he could just sit still for 5 minutes, while I clean the bottom wire of the cage!
Am I asking too much? Maybe!
Thank you on advance!

 

[mysteryfoxes]

No, it's not too difficult. I know when I volunteered at the zoo, they did that as well.

Training a parrot to 'stay' is essentially the same thing.

 

[greycloud]

I worked at a zoo for many yrs. We used stationing everyday. I will post some vids for you in a bit. It takes positive reinforcement and patience.

 

[greycloud]

This is my friend Cydney's video of her little lorikeet Kai. She is teaching touch and station training. You can see her next videos if you go to youtube. I believe there is 3-4 training vids. I always recommend these as Kai is such a great student and Cydney an excellent teacher!
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4qYfBQA6F4]Stationing #1 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[vasiana]

thank you all for you valuable input!
I will start immediately with the training and hopefully I’ll get it right very fast!