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		<title>More Training Secrets</title>
		<link>http://avianambassadors.com/BirdTraining/2010/01/11/more-training-secrets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that my (enable sarcasm) favorite internet bird trainers (sarcasm off … for now) have discovered two new and powerful techniques that we professionals have been hiding because we purposely use words they can’t understand, or more accurately that they claim the average parrot owner doesn’t understand. While this new “secret” is flawed on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Misuse of Weight Management</title>
		<link>http://avianambassadors.com/BirdTraining/2009/08/20/the-misuse-of-weight-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
I have written about Food and Weight Management before; they are valuable techniques when used correctly, carefully, and appropriately. In general, Weight Management is not something that a companion parrot owner even needs to consider. By careful management of the required daily diet of one’s birds an owner can usually achieve their training goals. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I need help with my phobic parrot!</title>
		<link>http://avianambassadors.com/BirdTraining/2009/07/31/i-need-help-with-my-phobic-parrot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You read it all the time in internet chat groups and even magazine articles, &#8220;I need urgent help with my phobic (insert parrots species).&#8221; It seems to me that the majority of people asking these questions and many of those answering them do not understand what phobia is.
Let&#8217;s start by going to Webster&#8217;s for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I scared my bird!</title>
		<link>http://avianambassadors.com/BirdTraining/2009/06/19/i-scared-my-bird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Training is an ongoing thing. No matter how well we believe our birds are trained, no matter how hard we have worked to generalize behavior, one day in our confidence we make a mistake. That happened to me this morning …
 
Mijo is a yellow-naped Amazon; he is just over a year old and has lived [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bird Tricks to Avoid</title>
		<link>http://avianambassadors.com/BirdTraining/2008/12/12/bird-tricks-to-avoid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In doing research online about bird training the visibility of several web sites seems to have rocketed over the last few weeks. Because I like to stay aware of who is doing, saying, and selling what into the companion bird community I often follow these links. What I found increasingly interesting was that many, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding gems in the sea of information</title>
		<link>http://avianambassadors.com/BirdTraining/2008/09/13/finding-gems-in-the-sea-of-information/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each day I receive email notifications of activity on the Internet that relate to birds and bird training. It is quite surprising how much information there is out there and how much more is being written every day. Now, you might think that this is a great thing that must be raising the bar in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Punishment Revisted</title>
		<link>http://avianambassadors.com/BirdTraining/2008/08/11/punishment-revisted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last blog article I wrote about the importance of using the terms of Operant Conditioning (OC) and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) correctly and consistently. The article was inspired by what I considered to be a disappointing article published by Karen Pryor, in particular her discussion of Punishment. In response to my post I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clear and Accurate Communication &#8230; Training Tenet</title>
		<link>http://avianambassadors.com/BirdTraining/2008/07/21/clear-and-accurate-communication-training-tenet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received an email from someone who had just read an article written by one of the people for whom I have great respect, Karen Pryor. The reason the person wrote to the bird training blog was to ask if they were correct in their reading of the article; stating that it was confusing in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History Revisited &#8230; again!</title>
		<link>http://avianambassadors.com/BirdTraining/2008/06/26/history-revisited-again/</link>
		<comments>http://avianambassadors.com/BirdTraining/2008/06/26/history-revisited-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SidPrice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an article “Primary Reinforcement and History Revisited” posted in April of this year I made the point that knowing the history of a bird was important.
“… the whole history of the bird is part of the antecedent package.”
“… the behavior we see today was shaped by the experiences of the bird in its past, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wing clipping</title>
		<link>http://avianambassadors.com/BirdTraining/2008/05/29/wing-clipping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 17:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every few months the Internet starts buzzing with a subject that is typically more emotive than most. That subject is wing clipping and it is one of those subjects that eludes logical thought and good judgment.
Now you may think that as someone who flies birds on a daily basis I would be solidly in the [...]]]></description>
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