{"id":9765,"date":"2014-06-19T06:04:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T06:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/?p=9765"},"modified":"2025-08-08T10:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:49:21","slug":"tips-get-bird-back-cage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/tips-get-bird-back-cage\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips To Get Your Bird Back In The Cage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our small birds love their time out of the cage. How do we know this? We know because sometimes it\u2019s soooo<\/em>\u00a0difficult to get them back in the cage. Plan for this by training your pet bird. Here are some tips to try for when you need to get your small bird back in the cage, now<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Lower Your Energy<\/h3>\n
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Of course,\u00a0whenever you are in a hurry to get to work or an appointment always seems to be the time when your bird decides to play keep-away with you as you try, in vain, to return her\u00a0to\u00a0the cage. Try these tips:<\/p>\n

As you get more and more frantic, so will your bird. Remember, our small birds are flock animals, very observant of body language, and low on the food chain. To your bird, a flock member that is acting distressed and moving erratically could signal mortal danger.<\/p>\n

Slow down, speak softly to your bird, and act as though you have all the time in the world to pick up your bird and take her back to the cage. This ranks up there with whispering to a screaming parrot<\/a> to change behavior, as far as difficulty goes. But it works. Change\u00a0your<\/em>\u00a0behavior in order to change your bird\u2019s behavior.<\/p>\n

Time To Trim Wing Feathers?<\/h3>\n

Trimmed wing feathers grow out once or twice a year. As they grow in, you can decide once again whether to leave your bird fully flighted or to trim the feathers again. Work on the habits\/behaviors listed below, and perhaps you can leave your bird flighted. Consider having just a couple of the flight feathers trimmed, which will slow your bird down but still allow her to fly. [Note: Don’t let a wing-feather trim give you a false sense of security that your bird cannot fly away if startled when you go outside. Some bird species, like cockatiels<\/a>, are efficient flyers and can gain flight lift-off even after a fairly recent wing-feather trim.]<\/p>\n

Good Habits To Form<\/h3>\n

Start working on changing parts of your routine that make it easier to get your bird back in the cage. Make the cage a wonderful place to go back to for a special treat. Train your bird to go into the cage by responding to a cue or performing a trick to get there. And finally, keep practicing the \u201cUp\u201d cue, and learn how to hold your bird so you only have to retrieve her once, not repeatedly.<\/p>\n

Holding Your Bird<\/h3>\n

Once you have asked your bird to calmly step up and she complied, gently hold her on your finger by pressing your thumb against the index finger on which your bird is perched. Make this a habit whenever you\u2019re holding your bird, starting with short amounts of time. This way, if you ever accidentally go out a door while holding your bird, you\u2019ll be holding her in a way in which she cannot fly off. This is how you get your bird across the room and into the cage without making repeated trips, every time she flies or jumps off.<\/p>\n

Hands Over Back<\/h3>\n

Another way to get your bird into the cage once you have her in your hands, is to hold a hand lightly over the back and wings, which will prevent the bird from raising the wings to get away. This also takes some training before it is an action your bird accepts. Start by holding your hand over your bird, and as this becomes more comfortable, lower your hand and do so for longer periods of time until you work up to holding your hand over your bird\u2019s back for the half a minute it will take to get her back to the cage.<\/p>\n

Huge Reward<\/h3>\n

One of the best ways to make going into the cage a great experience for your small bird is to have a favored food waiting for her in the cage. For our small birds, that might be a piece of spray millet or a Nutri-Berrie<\/a> or piece of Avi-Cake<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Place the food in the cage, and then use both a hand signal and verbal signal to let your bird know it\u2019s there. For example, I tap the side or top of the cage and say \u201cIn the cage.\u201d Do this as you\u2019re putting your bird in. Do training step by step. Once your bird realizes that a tasty morsel waits inside when you say \u201cIn the cage,\u201d try saying that as your bird is perched on the door, then when she is on top of the cage or a short distance away. If your bird is away from the cage but reacts by leaning toward it when you say \u201cIn the cage,\u201d help your bird out by asking her to step up, and then take her to the cage.<\/p>\n

“Elevator Up”<\/h3>\n

Keep your bird in top recall form by practicing the \u201cUp\u201d cue both onto a finger and a stick. This is especially easy to do if your bird jumps to the ground. Birds usually want to get up higher, so make that easy by repeatedly asking your bird to step up and lifting her higher each time. I suggest also stick training your bird. If your bird ever has to be handled by someone who is not comfortable with birds, stepping onto a stick offers is a way for them to hold your bird or put it back in its cage. If your bird tends to go through seasonal hormonal flare-ups, this saves your fingers too.<\/p>\n

Up The Ladder<\/h3>\n

Acquire a long ladder, one that goes from the ground to the cage. A small bird will naturally head up a ladder if you place her at the bottom of one. Use a command like \u201cUp the ladder,\u201d and give your bird a treat for accomplishing it. Once your bird does this regularly, then put her a few inches from the ladder and use your command. Then lengthen the distance. Eventually when your bird is away from the cage or flutters to the ground, you can say \u201cUp the ladder\u201d to get her back home.<\/p>\n

The “Where Is My Bird” Hunt Is On\u00a0…<\/h3>\n

Can’t find your bird? There are certain places birds tend to flock to within the home. Look for your errant bird\u00a0in these common birdie hangout locations:<\/p>\n

Up high:<\/h3>\n
    \n
  • Curtain rods<\/li>\n
  • Valences<\/li>\n
  • Lamps<\/li>\n
  • Mantels<\/li>\n
  • Tall furniture<\/li>\n
  • Ceiling Fans<\/li>\n
  • Picture Frames<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Inside things:<\/h3>\n
      \n
    • Under furniture<\/li>\n
    • Cupboards<\/li>\n
    • Drawers<\/li>\n
    • Open bag or box<\/li>\n
    • Laundry basket<\/li>\n
    • Plant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Danger!<\/h3>\n
        \n
      • Dish tub<\/li>\n
      • Water glass<\/li>\n
      • Bathroom<\/li>\n
      • Through door<\/li>\n
      • Through window<\/li>\n
      • Pot on stove<\/li>\n
      • Seat of sofa or chair<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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She attended college in Fulton, Missouri, spending her junior year abroad in Nantes, France. Diane moved to the Monterey Peninsula on California\u2019s Central Coast in 1982, where she acquired a gray cockatiel hen named Dacey, her companion for the next 22 years. She raised seven generations of Dacey's chicks and exhibited some of them in bird shows. Dacey inspired Diane to write for the American Cockatiel Society, American Cage Bird Magazine, the American Federation of Aviculture's magazine's AFA Watchbird and eventually Bird Talk magazine. She briefly published Bird World Magazine in the 1990s. Diane wrote Bird Talk magazine's \"Small Birds\" column from 1988 until the magazine ceased publication in 2012. Her passion for educating bird owners resulted in numerous bird leaflets and fliers, in talks given to bird clubs and at seminars, and eventually led to writing books. She is author of \"Cockatiels For Dummies\"\u00ae, and co-authored \u201cBirds Off The Perch,\u201d \u201cParrot Tricks\u201d and \u201cTeaching Your Bird to Talk,\u201d as well as a few other bird-care books. Diane self-publishes books, the most recent being a series of books featuring haiku poems and her photos of pets, including Dogku, Catku, Birdku and Horseku. See many of her books at her Amazon author page. Diane resides on the Monterey Peninsula with several cockatiels, a canary and a blue-headed Pionus parrot. 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