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Hello everyone!
I have a mostly flighted 10 year old Pionus. She's a real sweetheart, and she flights pretty competently from place to place in the house - cage to kitchen, perch to table, bedroom to living room, etc. She doesn't really fly for fun but she went from never having flown in her previous home, always being clipped, to learning to fly and land fairly skillfully the past two years.
Now my question! We stopped clipping two years ago. Took a good nine months before she did more than tiny flop flap hops. Then another year before where we are today, and she's a decent flyer. Well, imagine my surprise today when she molted a trimmed flight feather! That thing is over two years old. Is that typical? How long til I can be assured she's got her whole set of flight feathers? Will her flying keep improving?
I have a mostly flighted 10 year old Pionus. She's a real sweetheart, and she flights pretty competently from place to place in the house - cage to kitchen, perch to table, bedroom to living room, etc. She doesn't really fly for fun but she went from never having flown in her previous home, always being clipped, to learning to fly and land fairly skillfully the past two years.
Now my question! We stopped clipping two years ago. Took a good nine months before she did more than tiny flop flap hops. Then another year before where we are today, and she's a decent flyer. Well, imagine my surprise today when she molted a trimmed flight feather! That thing is over two years old. Is that typical? How long til I can be assured she's got her whole set of flight feathers? Will her flying keep improving?