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Animal Open House Featuring Parrots

Jamieleigh — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:09:11 +0000

While we’re in Coney Island, New York for the summer (until September 6th) we are having an “Animal Open House” an hour and a half before the show begins. This is a half hour before the All Access Preshow starts, so there’s plenty of time to catch the action of both!

The Animal Open House showcases the animal compound where the animals (and their trainers) live, work and play. This one features our four beautiful horses, three stunning Asian elephants, seven extraordinary lions and our eight exotic parrots. If you come right on time, you will get to see all eight of our parrots… if you’re a bit late, you will probably miss any “show birds” that end up getting moved backstage so they’re ready for showtime. But there’s still plenty outside to see!

Here are the birds you have the chance to meet at our Animal Open House…

Jinx “Blue Throated Macaw”

Jinx is our 3 year old blue throated macaw. Blue throats come from Boliva and are extremely endangered in the wild with only between 150-300 left. However, in captivity they are a thriving species. Often I will be walking around with Jinx, and you can sometimes catch him for a bit in the All Access Preshow where you have the chance to hold him and get your picture taken. He also makes an appearance and flight in the main show of Illuscination.

Comet “Camelot Macaw”

Comet is a yellow/gold dominant Camelot Macaw (two part Scarlet Macaw, one part Blue and Gold). Hybrids like this are not normally found in the wild, Comet was bred in a freeflight facility in Florida by Mirror Lake Exotics where the birds there are free to choose their mates and fly freely outdoors.

He proudly opens the show of Illuscination by appearing with the Illuscinator and flying to me in the very beginning during the great line of, “The Greatest Show on Earth!” you may also notice him with his brother (below) during the finale.

Tusa “Camelot Macaw”

Tusa is Comet’s younger brother by about 3 days, they are from the same clutch and each baby (there were 3) came out with different dominant coloring. Tusa inhibits more blues and greens, while Comet is gold and yellow and their other brother is dominant red.

Tusa does a beautiful lighted flight in the finale of Illuscination to his brother, Comet. He flies over the performers in the ring and lands on Dave’s hand on the ring curb.

Cash “Military Macaw”

Cash was in our show in Saipan, Mariana Islands but is a back up for Illuscination, not currently in the show. However, he will be out every day for the open house for you to enjoy and talk to! Let him show off some of his words and phrases he learned from living with Tiko, his blue and gold macaw friend.

Bandit, Bondi & Ace “Galahs”

We have three galahs/rose breasted cockatoos that you will see in the Animal Open House. They’re very playful and talkative and they love to show off for the crowds so be sure not to miss them!

Keep your ears open to hear them say phrases like, “Come here”, “Thank you”, “I love you”, “Hey Cutie!” and more.

Cressi “Congo African Grey”

Cressi is the “Where’s Waldo?” part of the Animal Open House. Normally the kids point out there’s a “grey one in there” and the parents say, “No, no, they’re all pink…” but there is actually an all grey one in there with those crazy pink ones! It’s Cressi, and she and Bondi are the best of friends. Cressi likes to make whistling noises she learns from you visiting and kissing noises. But most of the time you will find her upside down yelling about how great life is.

So hopefully you come out and enjoy meeting our flock of feathered friends, as they LOVE meeting new people and showing off for the cameras (so bring yours!)

Check out the show schedule for more information on when you can come see the Animal Open House featuring our parrots.

Taming Training and Tricks – Talk On Cue!

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“Using this ‘Real Speech’ system for only 15 minutes a day,
teaches your parrot how to speak more words, phrases and songs than you can ever imagine. Even species that can’t talk will whistle your favorite tunes.” Click for more »

Interested in Freeflight and Recall Training?

Jamieleigh — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 03:51:52 +0000

Interested in freeflight and recall training for your parrot? I know there’s always interest sparked when we show photos of us flying our birds outside and make videos of how much fun we’re having doing so.

If you want to learn more about recall training and freeflight training for outdoors with your parrot, here are some links you can explore…

Freeflight parrot photos. Join us on Flickr where we continue to keep our photostream updated with the newest photos of our flock. We even have an entire set dedicated to our freestyle flyers.
F reeflight training webisodes and videos. Check us out on YouTube where we constantly put up new freeflight videos and webisodes of the places we’re flying and who we’re flying with. You can watch the newest freestyle flyer students in action!
Our most used training technique. A small website on Random Rewarding, what we use with our flock.
Freeflight blog articles. Read a bit about what we do on our freeflight trips and how you can get started.
Sign up for the Freestyle Flyer’s Club and teach your bird outdoor freeflight recall today! Contact us and let us know that you’re interested and we’ll sign you up and personally coach you how to train your bird to enjoy life as a Freestyle Flyer!

Taming Training and Tricks – Stop Biting! Training Kit

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Watch a LIVE video demo of me taming our wild, biting Macaw, “Tiko.” (See how I handle “Tiko” as he lunges at me, screaming and biting — how I lovingly calm him down…
and mesmerize him so much that he BEGS me to pet him with my BARE HANDS 5 minutes later!) Click for more »

Funny Parrot Video

Jamieleigh — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:35:06 +0000

We’ve been keeping “travel diaries” for ABC while on the road with the circus and our flock. We made a fun pit stop in Waynesboro, VA to freefly our birds outside with some friends who took the Freestyle Flyer’s Club Course with Dave and I. We had a great time and of course while we were there, I got to say hello to my favorite buddy Storm the blue fronted Amazon parrot.

And I decided to do a travel diary with him in it, but of course, he always has to do ALL the talking…

Discover How To Stop Your Bird’s Screaming!

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"Discover How New Training Techniques Can Finally Train Your
Parrot To Entertain Himself Quietly… Even If Trying To
Ignore The Screaming, Cramming It’s Cage Full Of Fun Toys, & Giving
Him More Attention Has Failed Miserably!"
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