Replacing Bad Behavior to Tame Parrots

This works well with parrots who are aggressive and badly behaved. Along with the food method below this can be used on parrots that have not had their wings clipped.

You will need some sort of finger protection for this. If your parrot is very large and aggressive you may need a whole glove.

Put you protected fingers near the parrot and let him bite them. If you can feel it, you need more protection! Let him bite for a while, then give him a small snack.

It may seem odd to reward bad behavior but we want to replace this undesired behavior with something else.

Continue to do this for a little while and your parrot will start to link biting with getting a snack.

Eventually he will become half-hearted about the biting since it's a lot of work for a little food.

He will be looking for the treat every time he thinks of biting. You have effectively linked getting food with biting. he starts to think of biting you and he looks for food. A better result all round.

Once you notice this you can switch the reward to a snack for GOOD behavior. When he does not bite you give him a treat.

This process will leave your parrot thoroughly confused and he will be reluctant to bite you, or anybody else again.