Personally I believe it depends on the bird and the household. Do you live alone or with someone? If you live alone then you are the only major door open/closer in the house. Flighted birds can get shut in doors, as can non-flighted ones, but it is more common for a bird to be flying at a faster than walking pace to have a door shut on it or shut and it crashes into it because it is trying to follow you. So with that in mind if you live alone, then watch out for that. If you live with other people, are they bird people? I mean do they have the natural instinct to check and see if a bird is nearby before they open or close a door? If not, it could fly out the front door if you aren't careful. I am speaking from experience. I decided to flight train a cockatiel of mine a while ago. Note it is a cockatiel. A small bird which are notorious for being flighty. Someone opened the door and something else simultaneously happened that spooked the bird and away he flew. So that leads me to what type of bird you have. From you profile picture it looks like a conure. If that is the bird you are referring to then I would test the bird. Now as strange and startling as this may sound, stand a couple feet away from you bird and drop a pile of books or some pots and pans. If the loud noise scared him then you know he is alive. jk. If he flew away then I would advise towards considering wing clipping. It only takes one careless friend who came over and opened a door to loose your bird. Now yes, you can recall train you bird, but this doesn't just happen over night. You will have to be extremely mindful of your bird. Not only doors, but also fans, stove tops, anything inedible to a bird, ect. Don't get me wrong. Not clipping your birds wings is great. You bird is able to get exercise in that way, which is the easiest way on both you and your bird. I currently only have clipped birds. Now, I will say they are all clipped at varying extremities. Some are clipped more than others. My tiel is fully clipped fully because I know she always flies into windows and onto high places where dangers to bird items are. My parrotlets are clipped on their tameness. My less tame ones are more clipped than my more tame ones because I know that I can easily get them if something happened. Now, my doves and goffin too came to me clipped so I didn't get a say in them. When their wings grow out I will probably not clip them because hey aren't flighty. Yes doves are prey animals but mine are dense as rocks. If they were out in the wild they would die instantly. Something would swop down and pick them off and they would probably not even struggle. White ring neck doves are extremely domesticated. Especially mine. My cockatoo on the other hand is a large bird. Not technically, he is medium, but he has a large bird mentality. If something he finds threatening or startling happens near to him, he turns to face it, not to fly away. If you feel confident in you ability to keep your bird safe and whoever else in your life is aware of the things they need to watch out for then definitely! Don't clip! Just be aware of the responsibilities that come with a fully flighted bird. Maybe you could consider clipping a little. That way he cant fly at 100% but still can fly. I clipped my two most tame parrotlets mildly just so they cant fly at full parrotlet speed in case I needed to apprehend one mid flight due to some danger. They can still fly up, just not as well as non clipped wings. Just something to think about.
