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

This is actually a different type of training motivation. One of the keys to parrot training success, is making darn sure you are using a type of reward that your parrot likes more than anything else in the world.

In fact, make it a habit to sit down and think about what your parrot really likes more than anything else, and then create situations where your parrot has to do something, or has to behave in some way, before he can earn a right to get that reward.

Let's say the thing your parrot loves most is to go out of the cage and watch TV.

This is where you can use this motivation, instead of food to potty train your parrot. He must go potty first, to go watch TV. Train your parrot to go potty, and if he didn’t, set him back on top of
his cage and go outside without him. Almost immediately, go back inside to offer him another chance to potty, and chances are he'll do it after several attempts because he knows that the only way for him to watch TV outside is to go potty.

Gradually, fine tune to the point where he has to go potty before he is allowed to come off of his cage at all etc...

This is one of the greatest ways to teach your parrot about limits, and how he can't just scream and scream to go be let out to 'watch TV' but the only way is for you to cue him to potty. Your bird is LESS likely to ever scream to be let out… because it knows a better way.

If your bird loves to scream to get something it wants, you might want to try a strategy like this… if it doesn't eliminate the screaming entirely, it will at least help reduce it.

If you'd like to know more on parrot training then visit this site:

http://www.birdtricks.com/training_parrots.htm

A parrots comfort zone is a 'sweet spot' between being content and being fearful. You can actually use this to your advantage if you know how to do it right.

Find something that your bird is afraid of, and make it your goal to help your bird overcome its fear of that object.

Make it a goal to train the bird over the next week or two to touch the object that he now fears, by using treats as a reward for walking toward the object, and eventually touching it.

Remember to go slowly, and reward even the smallest amounts of progress; even one step closer is deserving of praise and a reward.

And don't push your bird OUT of its Comfort Zone... work in that 'sweet spot' between being content and being fearful.

You will realise that you will see a higher amount of progress with your birds when you actively look for things that scare your bird and systematically 'desensitizing' your bird to those fears one by one.

Your bird will TRANSFORM into a bird that has a level of confidence and happiness you've never seen in your whole life.

If you would like to further learn these techniques, check out this Taming, Training & Tricks course that details how you can take a scared parrot and work in those fringes of a bird's comfort zone.

It teaches you that there is a sweet spot in your bird's mental state... a spot between being content, and being afraid, that is still in the bird's comfort zone.

And by targeting all of your training exercises to work in this 'Sweet Spot' you can achieve maximum success with your bird, and build confidence that wasn't there to begin with... all by building on positive experiences that DO NOT scare your bird, while in that 'Sweet Spot'.

If you don't yet own a copy of Taming, Training & Tricks Course you can pick up a copy here:

http://www.birdtricks.com/store