Training Webinar
January 21st 2025Β 4pm – 5:15pm (approx)
Do you struggle with guilt because your bird doesn’t really play?
Do you buy toy after toy–and feel like they’re just parrot cage decorations?
Maybe you know inside and out that birds are supposed to play and be active, but your little one just stares (or screams!)
Guess what?! Research shows birds can learn to play!!!
It’s not hard to teach them
In this workshop, Justice Bellar, CPBT will show you how to teach your bird to play with toys! And field researcher Grace Innemee will share about how wild parrots play!
<Birdie happiness increase: 100%!>
<Parent happiness increase: also 100%!>
**Free for PK Members!!**
If you are a PK Member, you don’t need to register! (A link will be in the portal and emailed to you)
Non-PK Members -scroll down and ‘Click here to enroll’
If you have a perch potato, this is the webinar for you
When: Tuesday, January 21st@ 4pm EST
Where: Online! We’ll send you a Zoom link
Cost: $35 for non-PK Members
In this workshop, weβll talk all about different types of toys, toy arrangement, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY – how to TEACH your bird to play! (And play and play and play!!)
Come with your questions! This is a fun, interactive workshop!
We look forward to seeing you!Β
Justice Bellar, CPBT-KA, shares a life-long love for animals. Her passion for tough little ones lead her to work with shelter rescues in 2015. In 2017 she joined the team at The Gabriel Foundation, one of the world’s largest parrot sanctuary and adoption organization. In time, Justice became the Behavior and Training Coordinator, managing a parrot behavior training case load both internally, overseeing as-needed training for the sanctuary parrots on the premises, as well as post-adoption support families. She also developed and taught workshops in parrot behavior. Justice holds her avian training certification through the International Avian Certification Board (IATCB). Justice also graduated from Dr. Susan Friedman’s Professional Learning and Living with Animals course. Justice shares her home with three adopted parrots- Jimmy the yellow naped amazon, Snickers the umbrella cockatoo, and Tikka the blue and gold macaw. She spends her downtime gardening, hanging out with her trio of parrots, and playing cello – sometimes with accompaniment from her band, and sometimes with accompaniment from her birds!
Jen Cunha is an attorney, animal cognition trainer, writer, and international speaker, focusing on animal literacy and communication. A “parrot mama” for over 16 years, Jen has been developing cognition training techniques for almost a decade. Her training manuals have been translated and distributed throughout Europe, and sheβs been featured in Bird Talk magazine. Jen has twice written articles for the International Association of Applied Behavior Consultants Journal and is a frequent lecturer at science conventions and companion bird gatherings around the world. Jennifer collaborates on animal literacy and communication projects with university researchers, and her research has been published in peer-reviewed scientific proceedings. Her birds, Ellie and Isabelle, have passed university-designed blind tests on phonics and reading comprehension skills and are considered the very first animals who have learned how to read.