Your bird is biting because they're warning you. Here's what they're saying.
A free 10-minute quick-start guide from Cassie Malina, the avian behaviorist behind Disney's Animal Kingdom bird shows. The 7 warning signs your parrot gives before they bite, and exactly what to do when you see one.
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"We want our birds to choose to say yes."
Disney's Animal Kingdom · 22 years at Natural Encounters Inc. · IAATE Lifetime Achievement Award · CPBC + CPBT-KA dual-certified
The bite isn't the problem. The missed warning is.
Most owners think the bite came out of nowhere. It didn't. Your bird gave you five or six warnings first. You missed them, because no one taught you what to look for.
The result: every interaction becomes a guess. Will today be a "step up" day, or a bite day? You start avoiding your own bird. The bond gets quieter. The bites keep coming.
There's a small set of signals every parrot gives before they bite. Once you see them, you stop guessing. The PDF below shows you all seven.
Everything you need, in 10 minutes.
Read it once and you'll see your bird's signals you've missed for years.
The 7 reasons your bird bites
Fear, wanting space, overstimulation, protecting cage or person, miscommunication, hormones, and past trauma. With the warning sign for each.
Body language signals
The pinning eyes, the raised feathers, the leaning-away, the beak click. What each one really means and which ones to take seriously.
The 5 things to never do
Why yelling, hand-forcing, and "showing them who's boss" make it worse. The reactions that turn a one-time bite into a habit.
First steps that work today
Five small changes you can make this afternoon to start rebuilding trust. No special equipment, no clicker training, no force.
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Meet Cassie Malina.
For 22 years, Cassie was on senior staff at Natural Encounters Inc., the team behind the free-flight bird shows at Disney's Animal Kingdom from the park's inception through April 2020. As Director of Staff Development, she trained the next generation of professional avian trainers.
She holds the CPBC certification through the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants and the CPBT-KA certification through the International Avian Trainers Certification Board. In 2020 she received the IAATE's Lifetime Achievement Award.
"I've had Leo for 6 months and could barely handle his biting. I was very skeptical, but to my surprise he is stepping up a lot easier now and is even allowing me to pet him."
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