amazing, I have no words,big deal to see your parrot flying free and come back to you,it breaks my heart cause i can feel their need to be with you,their such a love feeling givers!!!i am sure you know that your parrots are the most healthy and happy of all others-i can never give mine this joy even if i do what is human possible for him,he is a pluger(alba cockatoo) and he can't fly anymore.god bless you
This was majestic and showed us all the delight of Man and his feathered friends enjoying life together. Your birds are certainly treasured friends and were loving every moment of your walk together. Thank you for showing us...
Life is a risky ride but if you don't get on the ride you will definitely miss that once in a lifetime adventure. I'm really happy to see you videos especially this one and that of Buckle. I'm glad to see these wonderful birds flying free in the sky. I'm also happy that there are people like you that helps them, supports them and love them. I wish many people will be like you. Say me a "Hi" to Buckle. God bless you all.
This is absolutely incredible! I've always adovcated to clip bird's wings because so many people don't know how to train their bird's to fly/recall. This is truley breath taking, and I'm glad I now allow these birds to fly! But living in Toronto, flighted birds are disadvantaged a little regarding the weather!
Love that converted bird perch backpack! I think if you love your bird you must give them as much freedom as possible. There are also indoor hazards. Lucky birds!
Chris and Susan, this is one of the nicest youtube videos I ever saw!!! Your birds are in a fantastic shape! Soooooo nice!! What is the music in the first part, could you tell me? Also great! Best wishes from germany!
I second your Wow. I don't recall seeing a vid with this many views & no dislikes. Probably the subject isn't interesting to trollers or most non-bird people (watchers/caregivers). Thx for sharing this well done vid. I have pondered free flying at least some of my 7 parrots so many times, but couldn't bear the possible loss after losing the bird I was closest to, a fully flighted African Grey, who spooked @ a noise & flew off into the distance closely pursued by ravens defending their territory
@zXIaDaMIXz If you think seeing a few fly in a flock is amazing, you should come visit us here and watch 25 take to the air at once. It is pretty fun to see a mixed flock of conures, macaws, senegals, cockatoos, all taking off at the same time and circling the property together. I hope to someday have time to sit and catch this on video.
@AirbuckUF We have a process we teach as part of our class on how to identify and select locations based on the skill of the birds and recovery potential. This process can be applied anywhere once you understand the idea. You will want to start out with a wide open space so you can see and follow the bird where ever it goes. Then you select locations that let you progress in skill from there. Hiking with the birds is what I consider a level 4 location/activity (out of 5) so be careful. Chris
Olá! Estou no BRASIL e fiquei maravilhado com o que acabei de ver; que espetáculo, uma das aves mais lindas do planeta; quão privilegiados vocês são por esses momentos que passam com as araras. Meus parabéns mesmo...👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤
@MegaJazzy72 I usually do not feed them soaked pellets but we did with Buckle because we had some. Normally I just feed hand feeding formula and then start offering solid foods such as bits of apply, banana, sun flower seeds and peanuts. As they are ready they will start exploring these foods. Chris
I was thinking the exact same thing. My blue and gold has been attacked by a hawk 3 separate times and they were all in a residential beach neighborhood(OB).
You must show the bird that you are the boss, and show a lot of love and repetition is the key along with reinforcement with treats each time it does well.... It takes many hours of working with your bird to do what we do...
awsome video, i never new u could train ur bird to fly free and have him/her come back to u, i think its a wonderful thing....i was looking at ur other videos, and i was wondering what is it that u feed ur babies when ur handfeeding? in one of ur videos with buckle, it look like u were giving him pellets were do u get them from? another question i have a pair of macaws and they dont breed for me could i be doing something wrong....thank delia
I also free fly all my parrots, I have 45 birds including a white necked African raven, which I cannot free fly with the parrots, as he will kill them, but he does keep the hawks away from my property, I cannot imagine clipping a birds wing! Great job on your training!
Budgies are excelent flyers and are mostly able to out fly out smart predators. We dont lock ourselves indoors thinking we might be hit by a car? Budgies have natural recal home like most parrots and dont need training, they just need to know your home is there home and thats where they will come back to every time. Its important to get budgies that have never been clipped as these aren't as agile in the air and accidents are easy. Also a flock is better as they nest and will return even easier.
I just rescued a Catilina Macaw who the previous owner was infested with bugs in her whole house and the birds cage and 15 years later of plucking and being locked away I rescued her she hasn't learned to fly or cope with her aggression properly were at a point now where she trusts me and her feathers are growing back little by little I'm trying to get her out of a habit of feather plucking and aggressively biting herself if you could give me advice more on her condition to a happy healthy free flying life
@JakubTilecky Yes they mostly were young when we got them. But that is not why they hang with us. They were young when we got them to maximize their skill development. They hang around with us because they have both the ability (i.e. teh skills) and they have the willingness to do so. In other words they are capable of not getting lost due to their training and they have an interested in being with us either for social reasons or for the peanuts we hand out. Chris
For newer vids of free flight check out Bird Tricks youtube channel they have 900+ vids. BTW my Blue and Gold does this all the time its natural because it is a bird but as you know he must be trained. I suggest getting them from a baby and hand feeding them, then the step up and whatever else your bird naturally gravitates to...such as flying.
What are the basic recall flight "stuff" that you can train a Parrot? I have two budgies that I want to teach to free fly outside. So far iI dont Know what I'm doing. Great Vid! Thanks
@zXIaDaMIXz It is sort of a job since I train my parrots to do my parrot show, the way I have made a living for 20 years. But the flying we do in these videos is mostly for our own fun. Without a doubt the skills the birds develop as we do this are very helpful when flying at the shows in different locations every week.
@kawaii2525 I fly my birds all year, even when it is 10 degrees F outside. They want to go out flying in the cold and will spend several hours out before behaving like they want to come in again. I presume it is a fuel issue, that flying in the cold uses more calories to remain warm thus requires more food.
Man... fascinating... i do saluite from india to ur passion . U done so hard work for trining as well as here.... by the way these birds so costly in india....
Hi Chris- I've been to beautiful Moab. Miles and miles of gorgeous wilderness and desert area. But are there no birds of prey to be concerned about? I lost a sun conure right in my backyard to a hawk a couple of years ago here in Carolina.
I also love photography, what lens and lens range did you have attached to your camera 28-80mm, 70-200/300mm? Great videos, you both share the same love for Parrots as well as I. Though my wife is a bit scared of their beaks...lol. The trust they have in you both is remarkable and I'm positive, that they love you both back for the freedom you give them to fly around in freedom. A definite life long investment, they are known to out live us humans. As I'm sure you know, the Palm Cockatoo from the north eastern tip of Australian are known to live up to 90 years. God bless you and your family.
@bdc1960 We have encountered several falcons when out flying and so far our guys have handled the incidents well, no losses. I am familiar with at least three incidents with falcons this past spring. The key is giving the birds the opportunity to develop appropriate levels of physical fitness, physical coordination and peak flight skills. But you are correct, such dangers are a very real part of flying parrots outdoors. Chris
Thats awesome however you trained them Ive got no idea but Im sure its a lotta time consuming thank you for sharing love it !!! Wish I could train mines like that male/female Yellow Crowned Amazons no time gotta work lol......
I actually teach people how to freefly parrots outdoors. I am the main source of such training and have been for a couple decades now. If you approach it correctly, it's actually not that difficult. Nature has been training parrots to fly for thousands of years now. One we learn how that system works we can manage it and let nature do most of the heavy lifting for us.
Most animals are highly adaptive during their early childhood development. Raising them in the target environment where you expect them to live will help calibrate their instinctive tendencies to the specific conditions of environment you will be keeping them. Plus these birds sleep indoors at night and then spend the days flying loose outdoors.
I wish my cockatoos could do this but there are a lot of hawks in the area. I often see them sitting on the trees around my house near the windows. My cockatoos scare them away when they see them. Still I'm too paranoid to think of them free flying. They would love it though. Beautiful video
There are many things worse than dying. Like being highly intelligent and capable of complex emotion and being a prisoner cut off from the world you crave with all your little parrot heart. These birds are smart enough to know the difference between loyal friend who wont leave them home to rot and a prison warden. Its a harsh world out there but better to die than miss out on its magic. My Macaw-or maybe I am his-I mean my friend, who happens to be a Macaw agrees with me fully
I don't know, neither me, nor my quaker parrot are trained for flying outside. He is an excellent flyer, but everything scares him. He screens or even gets scared for al the noise in my home. He loves music...anyway I live in Canada, so there is no life for him if he gets lost outside. I hate that. But these birds were bred for business. He is blue, not even natural colour...Each time I take him outside (in his cage) he is so scared, I can't help him relax a bit. When he is in the car I have to keep singing or he is just prepared for disaster...
I used to think that poaching these beautiful birds in the wild would endanger them. Poaching may be slowing down due to may fans who love and breed McCaws and train / allow them to fly free. It's better to see them in their natural habitat. But its also good that McCaws will not be extinct.
Anton Gorillo What a beautiful sight that is to see. They look like children who have been let outside to play their little hearts out. They are loving every second of it. Thanks for sharing this with me.
MissDistarr60 You have a delightful way of describing the activity of these McCaws. I also believe they are enjoying their hike outdoors. Compare this to the selfish owners who lock them in small cages. That should be outlawed.
Anton Gorillo I've still got my dander up over that dentist who killed, no, slaughtered such a majestic animal as the lion, in Zimbabwe. I can't help but imagine how that animal suffered. Poachers should be poached themselves. It's utterly barbaric what they do. I can't go there. I get to upset. Our wildlife suffers enough just trying to survive. The don't need us sneaking around with weapons and taking them out for nothing more than a trophy to hang on their wall. It absolutely breaks my heart.
thank you !!! you spoke from my heart. see my : free flying lovebirds in the north of thailand . 100 birds in happyness very rare one is missing. and then its natural. from 4 pairs they numbered to 100 in 7 years
*sigh* Our birds are very happy and catered to. I understand what you are saying, but our birds have been raised in captivity and have no idea how to fend for them selves. We almost lost one of our Amazons a few years ago, he was outside for 4 days and very dehydrated and hungry when we figured out how to help him come down to us. I imagine you spent a lot of training them.
You really giving your birds a free life and there should be no alternative for a winged pet. Stopping a pet bird from flying is like one stooping their children form walking and especially running.
amazing, I have no words,big deal to see your parrot flying free and come back to you,it breaks my heart cause i can feel their need to be with you,their such a love feeling givers!!!i am sure you know that your parrots are the most healthy and happy of all others-i can never give mine this joy even if i do what is human possible for him,he is a pluger(alba cockatoo) and he can't fly anymore.god bless you
Wow!super tamed and trained macaws thanks for showing this memorable hiking experience👍
This was majestic and showed us all the delight of Man and his feathered friends enjoying life together. Your birds are certainly treasured friends and were loving every moment of your walk together. Thank you for showing us...
Robert Pri
I love the perch on your back. Brilliant.
Words can not describe the beauty of this. They are so completely at home in the sky. Love these images Chris. Keep up the good work.
Arian
Such a liberating feeling it is to see these great birds fly in a natural setting.
Your work was never done nor witnessed by anyone before, Therefore I salute you and so do birds around the world.. Great work!
Beautiful video........ to do what those young people do with the 7 trained macaws, would be HEAVEN for mi. I loved it !!!!! Thank You.
Glad to see you posting some new video Chris...and spreading the free flight knowledge to all of us on the board.
I have a military Macaw sitting next to me. That was amazing all the way around. Your video was relaxing to watch . Thanks
Life is a risky ride but if you don't get on the ride you will definitely miss that once in a lifetime adventure. I'm really happy to see you videos especially this one and that of Buckle. I'm glad to see these wonderful birds flying free in the sky. I'm also happy that there are people like you that helps them, supports them and love them. I wish many people will be like you. Say me a "Hi" to Buckle. God bless you all.
Wonderful to watch you two struggling up the rocks when the birds just flew up when you finished climbing.
i wish there could be people like you for every unwanted parrot in rescue centers.
You guys are fantastic, they looked like they were having way too much fun. Thanks for sharing the video!
(Buckle is still my favorite.)
This is absolutely incredible! I've always adovcated to clip bird's wings because so many people don't know how to train their bird's to fly/recall. This is truley breath taking, and I'm glad I now allow these birds to fly! But living in Toronto, flighted birds are disadvantaged a little regarding the weather!
You guys definitely have an awesome set up from what I can see
Wow that was so beautiful it brought tears to my eyes.....
this was so beautiful!! so peaceful! Gorgeous birds and landscape! Loved it :)
THANKS FOR POSTING ...LOVE TO WATCH BIRDS IN FREE FLIGHT
Love these video's and the birds are just gorgeous.
So beautiful -to see birds flying
Love that converted bird perch backpack! I think if you love your bird you must give them as much freedom as possible. There are also indoor hazards. Lucky birds!
you are the greatest bird keeper, i wish i could train with you.
Amazing, so nice video, i love it seriously
thkx & respect guys to take care about these lovely birds
thkx Chris and keep on
An AMAZING video! absolutely gorgeous!
Chris and Susan, this is one of the nicest youtube videos I ever saw!!! Your birds are in a fantastic shape! Soooooo nice!! What is the music in the first part, could you tell me? Also great! Best wishes from germany!
amazing they seems so happy like a little kid
Thank you for sharing this beautiful, beautiful video. I loved it.
I second your Wow. I don't recall seeing a vid with this many views & no dislikes. Probably the subject isn't interesting to trollers or most non-bird people (watchers/caregivers). Thx for sharing this well done vid. I have pondered free flying at least some of my 7 parrots so many times, but couldn't bear the possible loss after losing the bird I was closest to, a fully flighted African Grey, who spooked @ a noise & flew off into the distance closely pursued by ravens defending their territory
@zXIaDaMIXz If you think seeing a few fly in a flock is amazing, you should come visit us here and watch 25 take to the air at once. It is pretty fun to see a mixed flock of conures, macaws, senegals, cockatoos, all taking off at the same time and circling the property together. I hope to someday have time to sit and catch this on video.
So beautiful I love to see birds free not in a cage. Thank you very much
@AirbuckUF We have a process we teach as part of our class on how to identify and select locations based on the skill of the birds and recovery potential. This process can be applied anywhere once you understand the idea. You will want to start out with a wide open space so you can see and follow the bird where ever it goes. Then you select locations that let you progress in skill from there. Hiking with the birds is what I consider a level 4 location/activity (out of 5) so be careful. Chris
Great Video - Your birds are beautiful - please take care of them- I dont want to see anything bad happen to them.
Olá! Estou no BRASIL e fiquei maravilhado com o que acabei de ver; que espetáculo, uma das aves mais lindas do planeta; quão privilegiados vocês são por esses momentos que passam com as araras. Meus parabéns mesmo...👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤
@MegaJazzy72 I usually do not feed them soaked pellets but we did with Buckle because we had some. Normally I just feed hand feeding formula and then start offering solid foods such as bits of apply, banana, sun flower seeds and peanuts. As they are ready they will start exploring these foods. Chris
11:47 amazing filming!
:O U GUYS ARE SO AWESOME AND THE MACAWS ARE AWESOMELY BEAUTIFUL
Very nice and unusual video of well trained loving birds with handlers. I'm surprised the birds didn't take off and keep flying away.
These parrots can live to be 90-100 years old.
How did those parrots know they better get themselves down into that red truck or it would be adios???
I was thinking the exact same thing. My blue and gold has been attacked by a hawk 3 separate times and they were all in a residential beach neighborhood(OB).
You must show the bird that you are the boss, and show a lot of love and repetition is the key along with reinforcement with treats each time it does well.... It takes many hours of working with your bird to do what we do...
@italpe1 Thanks. It has a been a lot of fun learning how to train them for this kind of flying. Chris
@JakubTilecky Yes there is a way to get him to trust you. I would suggest you read the book Don't Shoot The Dog by Karen Pryor. Chris
awsome video, i never new u could train ur bird to fly free and have him/her come back to u, i think its a wonderful thing....i was looking at ur other videos, and i was wondering what is it that u feed ur babies when ur handfeeding? in one of ur videos with buckle, it look like u were giving him pellets were do u get them from? another question i have a pair of macaws and they dont breed for me could i be doing something wrong....thank delia
I also free fly all my parrots, I have 45 birds including a white necked African raven, which I cannot free fly with the parrots, as he will kill them, but he does keep the hawks away from my property, I cannot imagine clipping a birds wing! Great job on your training!
Brilliant! also love that backpack
Absolutely brilliant. I loved it. Great work by the camera people. I guess that is one way to take your kids for a walk, ahhaahah
The Camelots look a lot like Comet and Tusa is that them??
Budgies are excelent flyers and are mostly able to out fly out smart predators. We dont lock ourselves indoors thinking we might be hit by a car? Budgies have natural recal home like most parrots and dont need training, they just need to know your home is there home and thats where they will come back to every time. Its important to get budgies that have never been clipped as these aren't as agile in the air and accidents are easy. Also a flock is better as they nest and will return even easier.
I just rescued a Catilina Macaw who the previous owner was infested with bugs in her whole house and the birds cage and 15 years later of plucking and being locked away I rescued her she hasn't learned to fly or cope with her aggression properly were at a point now where she trusts me and her feathers are growing back little by little I'm trying to get her out of a habit of feather plucking and aggressively biting herself if you could give me advice more on her condition to a happy healthy free flying life
How are your birds today now?
I loved this!
@JakubTilecky Yes they mostly were young when we got them. But that is not why they hang with us. They were young when we got them to maximize their skill development. They hang around with us because they have both the ability (i.e. teh skills) and they have the willingness to do so. In other words they are capable of not getting lost due to their training and they have an interested in being with us either for social reasons or for the peanuts we hand out. Chris
For newer vids of free flight check out Bird Tricks youtube channel they have 900+ vids. BTW my Blue and Gold does this all the time its natural because it is a bird but as you know he must be trained. I suggest getting them from a baby and hand feeding them, then the step up and whatever else your bird naturally gravitates to...such as flying.
What are the basic recall flight "stuff" that you can train a Parrot?
I have two budgies that I want to teach to free fly outside.
So far iI dont Know what I'm doing.
Great Vid!
Thanks
@zXIaDaMIXz It is sort of a job since I train my parrots to do my parrot show, the way I have made a living for 20 years. But the flying we do in these videos is mostly for our own fun. Without a doubt the skills the birds develop as we do this are very helpful when flying at the shows in different locations every week.
i love it...nice work guys ...keep it up
@kawaii2525 I fly my birds all year, even when it is 10 degrees F outside. They want to go out flying in the cold and will spend several hours out before behaving like they want to come in again. I presume it is a fuel issue, that flying in the cold uses more calories to remain warm thus requires more food.
Man... fascinating... i do saluite from india to ur passion . U done so hard work for trining as well as here.... by the way these birds so costly in india....
Hi Chris- I've been to beautiful Moab. Miles and miles of gorgeous wilderness and desert area. But are there no birds of prey to be concerned about? I lost a sun conure right in my backyard to a hawk a couple of years ago here in Carolina.
Not sure what time of year he flies them there, but it's a wintering ground for a lot of birds of prey.
Would Buckle happen to be amongst the birds in this video ??
maybe someone already asked this, but are all birds accounted for?
I also love photography, what lens and lens range did you have attached to your camera 28-80mm, 70-200/300mm? Great videos, you both share the same love for Parrots as well as I. Though my wife is a bit scared of their beaks...lol. The trust they have in you both is remarkable and I'm positive, that they love you both back for the freedom you give them to fly around in freedom. A definite life long investment, they are known to out live us humans. As I'm sure you know, the Palm Cockatoo from the north eastern tip of Australian are known to live up to 90 years. God bless you and your family.
What an awesome experience!! I think that so so amazing!!
Wonderful video, thanks for sharing i love it.
Awesome video I love macaws
How do I tell them apart
@bdc1960 We have encountered several falcons when out flying and so far our guys have handled the incidents well, no losses. I am familiar with at least three incidents with falcons this past spring. The key is giving the birds the opportunity to develop appropriate levels of physical fitness, physical coordination and peak flight skills. But you are correct, such dangers are a very real part of flying parrots outdoors. Chris
That was amazing, beautiful birds, I have 15....:)
She should have given willingly some of the birds to you, Chris
Well done. Very well done.
Thats awesome however you trained them Ive got no idea but Im sure its a lotta time consuming thank you for sharing love it !!! Wish I could train mines like that male/female Yellow Crowned Amazons no time gotta work lol......
I actually teach people how to freefly parrots outdoors. I am the main source of such training and have been for a couple decades now. If you approach it correctly, it's actually not that difficult. Nature has been training parrots to fly for thousands of years now. One we learn how that system works we can manage it and let nature do most of the heavy lifting for us.
Free Flying... Great Video Guys... BTW she wares those jeans well...
How are they able to survive in the Dessert climate when it's not their natural habitat?
Most animals are highly adaptive during their early childhood development. Raising them in the target environment where you expect them to live will help calibrate their instinctive tendencies to the specific conditions of environment you will be keeping them. Plus these birds sleep indoors at night and then spend the days flying loose outdoors.
I wish my cockatoos could do this but there are a lot of hawks in the area. I often see them sitting on the trees around my house near the windows. My cockatoos scare them away when they see them. Still I'm too paranoid to think of them free flying. They would love it though. Beautiful video
If they gorn somewere it is so bad keep care of ur bird
incredibly beautiful...much respect!
How well do they react to hawks and eagles?
Wow, I'd never take my parrot out to the desert! LOL!
Absolutley wonderful.
macaws seem to get overheated so easily.
Aren't you afraid of predators, particularly falcons?
What was the approximate temperature there ?
15 graden
Nice birds amazing colour
no dislikes!
thats the right approach
Beautiful!
Lovely,must be a big joy to be apple to do this :)
Finally good background music :)
im suprised no birds like hawks attacked your parrots
There are many things worse than dying. Like being highly intelligent and capable of complex emotion and being a prisoner cut off from the world you crave with all your little parrot heart. These birds are smart enough to know the difference between loyal friend who wont leave them home to rot and a prison warden. Its a harsh world out there but better to die than miss out on its magic. My Macaw-or maybe I am his-I mean my friend, who happens to be a Macaw agrees with me fully
@avrawild Why can't he fly?
I don't know, neither me, nor my quaker parrot are trained for flying outside. He is an excellent flyer, but everything scares him. He screens or even gets scared for al the noise in my home. He loves music...anyway I live in Canada, so there is no life for him if he gets lost outside. I hate that. But these birds were bred for business. He is blue, not even natural colour...Each time I take him outside (in his cage) he is so scared, I can't help him relax a bit. When he is in the car I have to keep singing or he is just prepared for disaster...
wow thumbs up for ya from São Paulo - Brasil.
thats pretty cool
HIKING WITH 7 FREE FLIGHT McCAWS. SUPER PHOTOGRAPHY.
Impressive!
I used to think that poaching these beautiful birds in the wild would endanger them. Poaching may be slowing down due to may fans who love and breed McCaws and train / allow them to fly free. It's better to see them in their natural habitat. But its also good that McCaws will not be extinct.
Anton Gorillo What a beautiful sight that is to see. They look like children who have been let outside to play their little hearts out. They are loving every second of it. Thanks for sharing this with me.
MissDistarr60 You have a delightful way of describing the activity of these McCaws. I also believe they are enjoying their hike outdoors. Compare this to the selfish owners who lock them in small cages. That should be outlawed.
Anton Gorillo I've still got my dander up over that dentist who killed, no, slaughtered such a majestic animal as the lion, in Zimbabwe. I can't help but imagine how that animal suffered. Poachers should be poached themselves. It's utterly barbaric what they do. I can't go there. I get to upset. Our wildlife suffers enough just trying to survive. The don't need us sneaking around with weapons and taking them out for nothing more than a trophy to hang on their wall. It absolutely breaks my heart.
I love this !:)
Just awesome!!
They seem to revel in flying,which is what they were born to do.
it is highly unlikely but it can happen.they are far to skilled flyers for eagles or hawks. but falcons would make me nervous.
@chrisbiro1
Is this a job because it looks like the best job in he world and i wish i could do what you do someday.
thank you !!! you spoke from my heart. see my : free flying lovebirds in the north of thailand . 100 birds in happyness very rare one is missing.
and then its natural. from 4 pairs they numbered to 100 in 7 years
*sigh* Our birds are very happy and catered to. I understand what you are saying, but our birds have been raised in captivity and have no idea how to fend for them selves. We almost lost one of our Amazons a few years ago, he was outside for 4 days and very dehydrated and hungry when we figured out how to help him come down to us. I imagine you spent a lot of training them.
You really giving your birds a free life and there should be no alternative for a winged pet. Stopping a pet bird from flying is like one stooping their children form walking and especially running.
WOW, I want my Pida to be able to free fly.