Resource Guarding | Behaviour Solutions 

you’re back! We missed you! 💕

Newt looks great! He's so bright green now. Lovely birdies ❤

so glad you are back!!! It's been a while! love you so much!

I love the way you break things down into steps! It really helps to have checkpoints when learning something new!

Alternate title: Mia desperately trying to get on to you with doing the least amount of flying possible 😅 Love your videos so much, they are so helpful! And I am so glad you made another video because it’s been a little while since you’ve made a new one!

yesssss flock talk is back!

Welcome back to RU-vid, Courtney! ♡

i love how he keeps waving and spinning hoping for a treat 😂

Blimey! Haven't seen a video from you in ages! Be nice to watch one again and see how you're doing! So important as you say to see if there's anything else influencing the behaviour before moving forward with action!

Another extremely informative video. I've been hanging out for another of your videos for months. I guess it's the quality over quantity!

Finally my favorite youtuber is back! I missed you!

Welcome back! So great to see a video after so long. 😄 It’s like you read my mind with what I need to work on with one of my Conures. I love watching you work with Newt and Mia.💜

It’s nice to have you back! I’ve missed your videos

Thank you so much for your videos! I just got myself a pair of parrotlets, and all your videos are so useful and full of information! I additionally admire how respectful you are towards your birds and teach others the same.

Thank you for this amazing video! I love seeing your flock!! 💕

Such a lovely approach and attitude before the training!

Its about time your back So enjoyable to watch and hear what you have to say. Hope to see more soon. Hope all is well with you and yours🐦

Thank you :) I wish you did more videos, imo you are seriously the best bird channel on youtube, far better than even those that claim to be professionals. Mine get aggressive when I try to change their water dishes, mostly I think cause they have a hormonal connection to water. I've largely been able to control it via putting yoghurt on my fingers while doing the water for a while to break the habit, causing them to come running over to lick my fingers with no interest in biting & then verbal rewarding each time they let me do the water without my fingers bleeding, but I'm really flying blind & just experimenting, your video's awesome, cause it's basically doing as I am, BUT in a much more structured & controlled way, with real direction to it & real understanding of the reasons behind the behaviour & reasons changes are working, so for me at least, it nails what I need to succeed. Same with all your videos. First one of yours I saw, soon after getting my birds, was step up & the idea of "asking them a question, will you step up?" has stuck with me from the start with everything, even stuff like the water, I ask them "can I change your water please?", which makes me watch & pay attention to them, which means I can predict if there's going to be a problem & my birds respond so well overall to being "asked" & that eye contact & warning that something's coming, instead of biting, with most things, they look at me & decide they're going to let me, or give me an "oy, NO" squawk rather than biting, cause they feel listened to/respected :) Anyway, just wanted to say a big thanks, cause this really is great & what I need right now & all your stuff is great :) Your attitude & understanding of bird thinking is amazing

I was really looking forward for this type of video, thanks for your work!!

Yaay welcome back!!

Good to have you back!!:D

Yay! A new video! 🤩 We've been missing you and your birbs!

@Flock Talk - This was very helpful! Thanks so much!

Great video! It is very insightful and useful.

You uploaded! Love your channel :)

Glad you are back...i am soo happy😊😊🥰

Welcome back! :D

I’M GETTING A BUDGIE HOPEFULLY TOMORROW AND I’M SO EXCITED!

Yay! You're back!

Hi there! Could you do a video about some effective options/alternatives of how to get your bird back into its cage when it's "bedtime" and the bird cleverly refuses to go back in? Thanks!

U posted again!!! Yaaaay!!!

I really want to thank you for all your videos. I got my bird 7 months ago. I was very I'll prepared and had ancient knowledge. I began searching RU-vid for help. I found your videos soon after. I have a well adjusted now. I don't have any issues with her. We are very bonded and I've very had a relationship with another animal like I have with her now. It's different than a cat or dog. I don't want to ever be without a bird again. I hope she she's with me a long time. Maybe even the rest of my life as I'm 50 now.n

Nice explanation

You made my day, thanks!! I think my bird was actually just lonely, so he was attacking me whenever I left the room. It's better since he got a companion, but still a fierce little birb :)

Lmao Newt furiously waving and spinning over there on his perch during your demo, like "WHERE'S MY TREAT MOM I'M DOING THE THING"

I love your training tutorials and tips :) Just wondering if you can tell me what you use as treats for training? We've noticed you have something yellow in your hand?

Unrelated, but I’m just too excited to not share this!! I just got my budgies new stainless steel food bowls! My dad kept refusing to buy new ones cus we already have plastic ones and he doesn’t see the point to getting new ones, so I made them stainless steel ones for free! It took a lot of hard work, patience, and planning, but I’m really happy with the outcome. So basically, we had some pine wood left over from when we made their play gym and we had stainless steel sauce dishes that we got in a set of plates that someone gifted us ten years ago. So I drilled some holes into the wood to make a bracket for the stainless steel sauce dishes. Then I used some steel hanger bolts, stainless steel washers, and stainless steel hex nuts to attach it to the cage. The birds are still scared of it, but I can’t wait for them to start exploring it!

Hi

So my lovebird is so fixated on resource guarding all things inside or outside its cage it is not safe to get near it. I have the battle scars to prove it. However, I can go right in to change out the water and food without being attacked! I guess 'Don't bite the hand that feeds you' is its mindset. Lucky me!!! Thank you for this timely video.

I m so glad that you are back. I have a question. I have a one budgie 3 years old, very spoiled. I m thinking of getting parrotlet. Do you think they can go along well n friendly? I heard parrotlet is very aggressive towards to other birds. Please advise what you think whether parrotlet will go alone with my budgie. Please advise.

Could you recommend some textbooks that would help me understand avian behavior and health, etc?

Love your bird room, I’m currently creating my own and wondering what are the dimensions of your room?

One of my birds (Spock) is a hardcore resource guard, but according to him, I am a resource and so is my other bird (Sasha). He will dive bomb to attack anyone who touches me and he'll attack me too for touching Sasha (literally, if she steps up for me, he will come flying across the room, land on the same hand that she's on and bite the heck out of that hand), he's like a tiny, flying, guard dog whose priority ranking is: 1. Sasha, 2. Human, 3. Anything shiny.

I just got a bird and I don't know how much I should and shouldn't be doing when it comes to the birds space she keep hissing I change the water or add food

Omg I didn’t know that this was called resource guarding! 🙏 one of my green cheeks always attacks when I try to add more pellets to his bowl.

My female green cheek conure attacks the human feet. I wonder why she doesnt like our feet to be seen. What can be done with this behaviour?

hey could you let me know if you've done a video on how birds can't breathe when they're directly under the shower? I keep seeing people do this and share photos because they look like they're putting their head back to enjoy it, but really they're struggling to breathe. I know I've seen this explained in a video. if it was one of your could you let me know which one? or if not, could you make a video? thanks so much for your channel ❤️

Would using the same clicker for different rewards, like leaving the room *and* treats, cause confusion for the bird?

Your parrolet also wanted a treat

when I'm take my parrotlets food container for cleaning they both come attack me 😂

I have a budgie that guards the food bowls and treats away from his budgie pal that he shares a cage with. Can I use this technique with a bird who’s territorial against another bird instead of with a bird who’s territorial against a person? He doesn’t have any aggressive behaviors at all towards me. It’s all 100% towards his budgie pal, and it’s so not cool to watch him block her from getting treats or even food all day. My only defense at this point to make sure she’s getting her food and treats is to lock him up in a separate cage for a little while so she can get a break from him 😢

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