More Daylight Equals More Parrot Behavior Problems

More Daylight Equals More Parrot Behavior Problems Are you starting to notice your cute little baby parrot isn't being quite as cute over the last few weeks? If you live in an area of the world, that starting to get some sunshine, and longer daylight hours, then your parrot might be showing some aggression towards you. This behavior change in your parrot is a natural response. Parrots go into breeding mode, when the days start to get longer. It's actually the longer daylight hours that trigger birds into breeding in many instances. A bird that is still of breeding age, will tend to get VERY temperamental during these spring and summer days. So if your bird's starting to get extra pissy... Here's some things you can do. Shorten Your Parrot's Exposure To Daylight You can do this by getting a cage cover for your parrot, to put over his cage while he sleeps, thus reducing the amount of exposure to daylight, and suppressing the breeding instincts. This isn't a blanket solution, but it WILL help! You can get cage covers for your bird at BirdCages4Less.com or by doing a search on google for "cage covers" Don't let your parrot get his way! You'll often find that birds reaching this breeding segment of their life will want to start testing their relationship with you, in ways you aren't used to. They'll start attacking, and defending territories, when usually they'd kindly step up onto your finger. The best thing to do in situations like this is, to make sure that you don't let your parrot, run the show. You need to make sure that if your bird bites at you when you go to pick him up, you don't start ignoring him/her, or withdraw your hand. Instead, kindly force the parrot, to behave and perform the behavior you want him to do on your terms not his. He needs to know he doesn't run the show. Trick Train Your Parrot! I hear some people say to me... "I don't want to trick train my parrot, he's a bird, and it's unnatural!" Well fine! But it's also natural for a bird to defend it's territory and bite intruders, are you OK with that? You see, trick training is a way to teach your bird a new way to interact with you, that can be non threatening, simulative, and a trust building situation. And it's all built around your bird learning to follow your directions, and commands. Which can only be a good thing this time of year when the daylight gets long!