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Some comments on another thread got me thinking about this...
My birds are just over 1 and 2 years old who have always been fully flighted, they really seem to revel in their flightedness. Teaching Sapphire to fly to my hand was as easy to her as stepping up, possibly easier as she already had stepped up a couple times and offered flying to my hand before I even tried to teach her to.
When they are just doing their parrotty thing around the house, they fly a lot. Nila also dislikes difficult climbs and will regularly fly a bigger distance to avoid climbing a short one.
They also fly just because... in the morning they do a few laps of the house. If they are caged for most of the day, they zoom around like fighter jets when released, sometimes at the same time sometimes the second bird will zoom when the first is done. They chase each other like they are playing tag on a daily basis, they zoom around and brush us, circle us etc. They are always up for flight game with us. They also have a good zoom around in the late afternoon.
These are just examples of what I count as recreational flight, they fly from A to B all the time of course.
What is your bird's recreational flight motivation like, and have they ever been clipped? Did the zooming around slow down much with age?
My birds are just over 1 and 2 years old who have always been fully flighted, they really seem to revel in their flightedness. Teaching Sapphire to fly to my hand was as easy to her as stepping up, possibly easier as she already had stepped up a couple times and offered flying to my hand before I even tried to teach her to.
When they are just doing their parrotty thing around the house, they fly a lot. Nila also dislikes difficult climbs and will regularly fly a bigger distance to avoid climbing a short one.
They also fly just because... in the morning they do a few laps of the house. If they are caged for most of the day, they zoom around like fighter jets when released, sometimes at the same time sometimes the second bird will zoom when the first is done. They chase each other like they are playing tag on a daily basis, they zoom around and brush us, circle us etc. They are always up for flight game with us. They also have a good zoom around in the late afternoon.
These are just examples of what I count as recreational flight, they fly from A to B all the time of course.
What is your bird's recreational flight motivation like, and have they ever been clipped? Did the zooming around slow down much with age?