For most birds who STILL have a screaming habit, BOREDOM is the main reason your bird screams. And to cure a BORED bird from screaming without trying to find a strategy that focuses on eliminating boredom is like searching for a lost ball in some VERY tall weeds...

A parrot's natural pattern of activity in the wild eliminates boredom by requiring it to search for food for up to 6-8 hours a day.

So just like you don't feel the need to be active after you've been running errands for 8 hours strait, and just want to sit on the couch and relax...

You can manufacture environments in your parrot's life that keep him so busy he'll want to spend more time relaxing too.

But to do this you need to force your parrot to actually search for his food ALL day long, and STOP making it so easy for him to get at in his food bowl.

By using types of toys that you can find online that I call "Food Finding Toys", or that are coined in the industry as "Foraging toys"...

You can set up an environment in your bird's cage that *requires* him to actively search, dig and pry for his daily food for almost the entire day. They will literally be active for as many as 6 hours a day looking for food.

And you can imagine how much less demanding a bird who's been that busy all day will be for your time and attention! The change you'll see in your bird's behavior when you make him look for ALL his food is remarkable.

In fact the evidence supporting how much this benefits your bird makes NOT doing this, border line abusive (in my opinion).

A mind is a precious thing, and a mind left to an un-enriching environment will erode... maybe even become neurotic.

It takes a little more effort on your parrot to hide your birds food, but it's worth it.

So go pick up some Food Finding Toys today and start manufacturing an exciting environment for your bird today.

Note: When choosing toys, be sure to choose those that doesn't have dies or toxic ingredients.
The following site has the safest line of toys on the market, and many of their toys have lots of space to hide food in that force a parrot to have to chew through a Coconut shell to get his pellets, or shred up multiple layers of paper to get a treat inside.

You can see the range of toys and the dangers of commercial parrot toys here:

http://www.birdtricks.com/parrot-toys/

A lot of people say they have tried EVERYTHING to get their parrots to stop screaming. They say they ignore the bad screaming, only pay attention to him when he's good... leave the room if he screams for attention and stock his cage full of toys to help help him be less bored. These people can't leave their bird alone for a second, or do ANYTHING without the bird loudly protesting the fact that he's not involved.

The only thing these people claim stops the screaming is to let the bird spend time with them...

But this QUICKLY get's out of hand, and is a strategy that only reinforces a bird's desire to be with its owner more... causing some parrot owners to give in and just let their bird "live" on their shoulder.

These people claim they've tried many strategies on their screaming birds to no avail. Here's why they've failed to stop their screaming...

Almost ALL parrot training strategies work because they do the best job of pairing up what the bird wants with what *YOU* want by finding a happy compromise.

But not every bird wants the same thing!

The real reason a technique that you might learn from me might not work for you, is because every training technique is designed to be used on a bird with a *very* specific love language.

Because they are motivated by different things!

If you've tried the strategy of rewarding your bird with food rewards for being quiet or playing with his toys and it works... then your bird is probably a bird that loves food.

This strategy has broken thousands of birds of their screaming for attention habits.

But if you try it and it doesn't work, then your bird might not care that much about food and would much rather be 'Actively Playing' and burning off energy.

Meaning you need to use training techniques that target your birds specific Love Languages to get the best results for your bird, and not just give up on your bird because a technique didn't work.

This is why I think it's CRUCIAL that you get your hands on as much training information as possible. You need to be armed with an arsenal of strategies that you can pull out and use in a variety of situations.

You can get those strategies here.

One of the reasons why some parrots scream a lot is actually due to the lack of sleep. Here's why this is such a BIG problem for birds and why you will see drastic changes in your parrot's behavior when you start getting him a good nights rest.

You see, parrots are prey animals. And what comes along with the privilege of being
an animal hunted by other animals is a VERY deep desire to NOT be eaten.

Along with a genetic REFLEX that allows them to be awakened by the slightest noise, so they
can escape from any possible nearby danger.

Just think about how you feel when you get shafted out of a good nights sleep by some
neighbor who lets his annoying dog out in the morning before he heads off to work at 4am.

Don't tell me you haven't laid there stewing over how much you hate your neighbor for being
so inconsiderate as to let his dog wake up the ENTIRE neighborhood so early in the morning.

Well...If you let your parrot sleep in the same room you watch your evening TV in; Now you know how he FEELS!

So here's the deal:

Your parrot typically wants to wake up when the sun comes up and go to bed when the sun goes
down. So when your parrot starts to nod off at sunset, and your surround sound system is waking him up every 60 seconds, it's not making him like you any more.

So here's what to do about it:

Pick a DESIGNATED sleeping place for your bird that is in TOTAL darkness and is as far away
from your TV as possible. This could be a shower, closet in a guest bedroom or wherever.

Just buy a shower perch, or t-stand that you can wheel into that sleeping zone when the
sunsets and start putting your parrot to bed when the sun goes down.

You'll almost ALWAYS see an instant improvement in your parrots screaming or irritability. And that's just ONE strategy.

If you're having problems with trying to stop your bird's SCREAMING, and you'd like to learn
all advanced tactics for curing this annoying behavior, go here: Stop Screaming Course