Teaching Taki To Fly | Training Progress Session 15

Taki is our 7 month old Lutino cockatiel. He is most likely a "she" but we call him a "he" anyways. His wings are uneven because of a botched clip job he had before we got him. Our avian vet has suggested letting them molt out and regrow. He will be fully flighted afterward.
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This is training session 15 or so for recall and stationing. I am using recall and stationing (based on the tutorial by WingsNPaws which you can find in my basic training playlist) to teach Taki how to fly. He has flown less than 5 times in his entire life and although his wings have grown out enough that he is capable of flight, he doesn't seem to realize that he can fly. I do not force him to fly using techniques that I've seen elsewhere on the internet, such as tossing him up in the air- these methods are scary for the bird and often result in crash landings. The bird begins to associate flying with being in pain and being scared. Please let your bird discover on its own accord that it can fly, and help the process along by doing stationing and recall training.This develops the confidence and muscle tone needed for flight.
We have worked for roughly two weeks to increase to this distance. Any time Taki is unable or unwilling to go from my finger to the perch, I decrease the distance until he is comfortable. This was the first training session that he has flapped his wings more than once or twice and the first training session where he is using his wings to get back and forth most of the time (even though he isn't yet using them in a way that's actually effective). I reward him extra any time he moves his wings while getting from my finger to the perch and vice versa to teach him that what I want is for him to flap.
Excuse the odd cuts/jumps in footage. Our senior beagle is around 15 years old (rescued 13 years ago when she was estimated to be 2 years old) and is beginning to develop "old dog syndrome" and bark at everything. Banjo (our beagle) was not barking at Taki and does not bark at Taki. The parts where she was barking were edited out to help you focus on the training session without the barking in the background.
Taki's training sessions are always 10 minutes long and we currently do two training sessions per day. He does one in the morning for harness training (which currently involves desensitizing Taki to the harness even though he is now comfortable with it, putting the harness on, then going to the backyard for a few minutes to sunbathe and eat treats) followed by one session in the evening for recall/stationing. To learn how to harness train your bird or teach your bird recall/stationing, please see my basic training playlist and reference the videos covering those topics by WingsNPaws as well as FlockTalk and Aviator Harness.
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