{"id":93389,"date":"2021-04-14T13:05:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T18:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/windycityparrot.com\/blog\/?p=18630"},"modified":"2021-04-14T13:05:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T18:05:41","slug":"how-do-you-teach-an-elderly-conure-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/?p=93389","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Teach an Elderly Conure to Fly?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no need to teach a bird how to fly even if they were clipped prior to fledging.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

Birds have known how to fly for 100,000,000 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You teach them where and how to land.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Make sure they have a proper perch on the cage top then toss the bird towards the birdcage from a foot away.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Increase distance until the bird can land without flying into the cage front which can injure its chest.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Use plays stands not furniture, TV, and drapes for other landing zones throughout the house.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

Cover windows and mirrors – we use dream catchers and stained glass.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Help them mentally \u201cmap\u201d rooms – where walls are.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A panicked bird can mistake a light color wall for the sky so they have to know where walls are to avoid concussions.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

Best<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

MitchR<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Original Quora Question Here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is no need to teach a bird how to fly even if they were clipped prior to fledging.   Birds have known how to fly for 100,000,000 years.   You teach them where and how to land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flight"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sun-conure-flight-white-background-2-8.jpg?resize=600%2C445&ssl=1",600,445,true],"list":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sun-conure-flight-white-background-2-8.jpg?resize=463%2C348&ssl=1",463,348,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sun-conure-flight-white-background-2-8.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1",300,300,true],"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sun-conure-flight-white-background-2-8.jpg?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1",600,600,false]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sun-conure-flight-white-background-2-8.jpg?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phcfkq-oih","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}