EVENTS

July 9-12, 2010, The Parrot Training Retreat at Cockatoo Downs

NEW! Because of popular demand a second Parrot Training Retreat will be held Sept. 17-20, 2010.

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The Parrot Training Retreat at Cockatoo Downs is a practical basic to moderate training skills event open to anyone interested in training companion parrots. The Retreat will be four days of instruction and fun focusing on teaching the fundamentals of positive reinforcement training for companion parrots. The goal of the Retreat is to help you foster a positive emotional and practical relationship with your bird. We will concentrate on changing problem situations that arise with your companion parrot in your home environment. Through the support of our excellent teaching staff and by offering hands-on training, you will acquire the foundation needed to experience training success with your own bird.

Our training staff is Barbara Heidenreich, goodbirdinc.com, Sid Price, avianambassadors.com, and Pamela Clark and Chris Shank, both of Cockatoo Downs.

As the Retreat is centered on training companion parrots you have the option of bringing your own bird to train. There will be facilities at Cockatoo Downs to house your parrot day and night during the course of the Retreat. As a participant you will be training your own bird, the resident parrots and cockatoos at Cockatoo Downs, and chickens. Yes, chickens! During the course of the Retreat you will learn the fundamentals of clicker training and chickens are excellent students on which to practice your clicker training skills.

You will learn and experience at the Retreat:

Cockatoo Downs is a parrot training facility and home to our resident companion parrots and cockatoos. It is located near Salem, Oregon on four beautiful, peaceful rural acres. As many of Cockatoo Downs' resident cockatoos are trained to free fly you will experience daily the exhilaration of watching and interacting with these free-flying birds. We invite you to join us in this unique training event.

Fee is $995 (Early Bird Registration by July 15, 2010, $895) and includes breakfast, lunch, dinner, workshop note guides, and handouts. Attendance is limited to 12 participants.

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