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because she feels light on my palm. Sometimes she flies straight to the perch and jumps onto my hand. Other times she flies to perch and then flies to another rope. I have no idea of why Cybil’s body language alters. She is more reluctant to step up if someone else is nearby. Saturday August 22nd Vernon


Timneh was flying to perch and rope for nuts. Basil sent off Vernon. Once Vernon was gone, Cybil landed on my palm lightly and ate the nut standing there. First time!


15 September 2009 Store ran out and I have not had monkey nuts for a week. At first Cybil would not fly to the hand for peanuts. Eventually she compromised for banana chips but not stay on the hand to eat them. Basil would not fly to me but he would fly to the perch and also fly to a stick. Today new supply of monkey nuts


arrived. (Roasted them in case of fungal contamination.)


As soon as they realized that my


pocket was stuffed full of monkey nuts, both Amazons flew to stick and flew to my hand at every asking. Even Basil after he had watched Cybil twice. If I hold out my left hand and don’t show the nut, Cybil will veer away and land elsewhere. Once she sees the nut, she will land on the left hand. Basil is shyer. I don’t understand why Cybil who was the shyer of the two when they arrived 18 months ago and whom I caught twice daily for 6 weeks to medicate, will fly to me so readily. Is it a sign of avian intelligence that Cybil conforms to my requests so much more readily than Basil? She will also fly to the hand for a grape although he will not.


Winter In the run up to Christmas 2009, the pet birds are enjoying the warm inside the house. Since there are ample sunflower seeds around in the aviary the Amazons are less willing to fly to me. If I go to find them Basil will step up onto the stick and Cybil will step up onto the hand. Once she has the nut in her beak, off she flies. It is an ongoing learning experience (and a great delight) to have these four birds in the aviary. As Rosemary Low has recently written, breeder and parrot owners could put aside an aviary or part of an aviary in order to protect and nurture ex-breeding birds or birds in need of new home. The rewards are not as obvious as those with one’s bright new baby parrot. As you can see from the above account, to gain their trust and to watch them thrive - this is the real reward of rescue and rehoming.


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