Training a Princess Parrot is very easy. I know so because I have a male Princess Parrot named Roger, this article is about what I did. Training should begin shortly after you’ve bought it home from the pet shop or the breeder and allowing it a day to settle down. Roger was not hand-reared by a breeder so he wouldn’t let anyone touch him because he wasn’t used to it. Even if your Princess Parrot was hand-reared, the training method below will still be helpful.

A picture of Roger, our Princess Parrot when we first bought him home

I started my Princess Parrot training using a method called Target Training. I learnt this method from the Bird Tricks Training System (you can see the ad on the right for easy clicking) and all you need is a chopstick and a clicker, which is optional but I find the clicker helped me train Roger much faster.

Firstly, a clicker is a small boxed device that has a metal strip, which when clicked on, will bend and make a distinct clicking sound. You can buy the click from a good pet shop or online for about $5 – $10.

So how does Target Training work? To train a Princess Parrot, first find out what it loves to eat for a treat and use this treat only during your Princess training sessions. This will encourage your Princess Parrot to try and learn faster.

When you put a chopstick near your Princess Parrot, it will instinctively bite the chopstick and when it does, you click the clicker you have hidden in your hand and then give it the treat. You repeat this cycle a few times so your bird will quickly understand that biting the chopstick and hearing the clicker will result in a treat. If you don’t use the clicker, you just give it the treat after it has bitten the chopstick.

You then move the chopstick a short distant away from your Princess Parrot, say 5 cm away and then wait. If your Princess Parrot walks up to the chopstick and bites it, you click your clicker and reward it. If it doesn’t you wait until it walks up to the chopstick and bites it. If it doesn’t after a short time, say 30 seconds, you take the chopstick away, wait a bit and then bring the chopstick back and see if your Princess Parrot will walk up to the chopstick and bite it.

For your Princess Parrot training to be successful, you must only give the treat after your bird has bitten the chopstick. It will quickly learn and will soon start chasing after the chopstick to bite it and get its reward. Roger enjoys moving all over the cage to get the chopstick and it a simple way for me to bond with my Princess Parrot. I know you’ll enjoy using this Target Training method to train your Princess Parrot too.

Taming a Princess Parrot. Roger now allows us to touch him

Once you and your parrot have mastered the Target Training method, you can use it to do more advance training like getting it to step onto your hand, come out of its cage or do tricks like turn around on the spot. The Bird Tricks Training System will have more details and videos you can watch about the Target Training system.

I hope you find this article useful to train a Princess Parrot.

Taming a Princess Parrot – what we achieved two months later

Just an update… In just 4 weeks, we were able to achieve this much using this Princess Parrot Training System. I can now get Roget to fly to me, fly back to his cage or fly to his perch. Next I will start teaching him to do tricks, which is also covered in the Bird Tricks Training System.