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| PAMELA CLARK, CVT |
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Pamela Clark is a parrot behavior consultant and licensed veterinary technician. She offers consulting services both in the home and by telephone to owners of companion parrots. Her particular areas of interest include feather destructive behavior, nutrition, flight for parrots and positive reinforcement training.
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Pam's focus when dealing with behavior problems is on using fundamental principles of behavior, rather than generalized, anecdotal guidelines, and always on using the most positive, least intrusive methods. Pam has a firm foundation of knowledge in the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis and positive reinforcement training. She has also trained parrots in behaviors as complex as that of free flight outdoors. Pam lives in Dallas, Oregon with 11 companion parrots. In addition to her behavior consulting, she works for an avian specialist. She is a well-known speaker and her articles have appeared in the Companion Parrot Quarterly, Bird Talk Magazine, Birds USA, Good Bird Magazine, Parrots Magazine and the Holistic Bird Newsletter.
Pamela Clark has clients in Canada, Australia, France and Japan - and has developed an exceptionally effective way of consulting at long distances. |
To contact Pamela Clark e-mail her at clark.exotics@thegrid.net. Or contact her by phone at 503-606-0235.
Her website www.pamelaclarkonline.com .
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I consider Pamela Clark one of the most valuable resources I have at my disposal when it comes to providing an enriching environment for my parrots. I remember the first phone call I made to Pam requesting her help. It was July 22, 2005 the day before we brought Buddy home. I had contacted her for a pre-purchase consultation. We were considering a baby Timneh African Grey parrot. An internet search for information on African Greys led me to Pamela Clark.
I consulted with Pam often in those days. One particular consultation stands out in my mind. Buddy was shy around strangers sometimes exhibiting fearful behavior. We had been told by friends who had parrots that we should bring people over, sit in a circle, and pass Buddy from one person to another to get him over his fear of strangers. Jerry didn’t like that idea. He wanted to know what Pam thought. Pam suggested that for a given individual parrot that approach might be experienced as too overwhelming. Pam outlined a method for introducing Buddy to new people in a way that he could feel safer and have more choice about the interaction. Pam's advice turned out to be extremely successful and Buddy today is a parrot who shows no fear of strangers and will sometimes fly into a room where a new person has just arrived.
Pam directed me to a new magazine called Good Bird magazine, where I could learn more about positive reinforcement training. Pam also encouraged me to take Dr. Susan G. Friedman’s Living and Learning with Parrots (LLP) course.
I’ve since graduated from Dr. Friedman’s LLP course, I have (and read and re-read) every issue of Good Bird magazine ever published and I belong to the PBAS list serve group where I continue to learn about changing behavior using the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). I believe the positive-first teaching solutions I’m learning are a fundamental part of providing an enriched environment for my parrots. I can’t thank Pam enough for mentoring me and setting me on the course to sharing my life successfully with my parrots. You can read Pamela Clark’s articles at her website www.pamelaclarkonline.com .
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| SUSAN G. FRIEDMAN, Ph.D. |
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| Susan G. Friedman, Ph.D. is a psychology professor at Utah State University. Dr. Friedman has presented on animal learning and behavior to a wide variety of audiences including the Association of Avian Veterinarians, the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria, the American Federation of Aviculturists, Moorpark College’s Exotic Animal Training and Management program, and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
She has taught animal behavior workshops in Canada, France, Israel, Holland, Australia, and New Zealand. She teaches two on-line courses, one for veterinarians and other animal professionals and another for pet owners from 22 different countries so far. Her articles have been translated into 8 languages, including Bulgarian, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Swedish. She is the first author on two chapters on learning and behavior for two new avian veterinary texts (Harrison and Lightfoot's Clinical Avian Medicine and Luescher's Manual of Parrot Behavior). She is a core member of the US Fish and Wild Service’s Condor Recover Team. She has been nominated for the “Effective Presentation of Behavior Analysis in the Mass Media” award, given by the International Association of Behavior Analysis.
To learn more about Dr. Friedman’s Living and Learning with Parrots (LLP) course and to read her articles please visit http://www.behaviorworks.org/ .
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| KAREN PRYOR |
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| Karen Pryor Clickertraining (KPCT), www.clickertraining.com, a leader in the field of animal training and a recognized world leader in the science and application of marker-based positive reinforcement, or what is often call "clicker training."
The www.clickertraining.com/library is a terrific resource of clicker training information. Many years of wisdom from Karen Pryor and a vast array experts and enthusiasts is collected here. You can also find clicker training books and DVDs specifically for birds at http://store.clickertraining.com/birdtraining.html.
Visit Karen's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/clickertraining for clicker training updates and discussions!
If you are interested in learning more about positive reinforcement training I would recommend two books to you; "Don't Shoot The Dog" and Karen's most recent book, "Reaching The Animal Mind". You can preview Karen Pryor"s new book, "Reaching The Animal Mind" at http://www.reachingtheanimalmind.com/.
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| The Project Parrot Website, www.projectparrot.com, is a terrific resource for parrot caregivers to learn the basics of behavior, positive reinforcement training, and optimum bird care. It is hosted by, Jenny Drummey, author of "Project Parrot, A Behavior Guidebook for You and Your Bird" and "Biting Matters, Living Bite-free With Your Parrot". Jenny is a wonderful resource for all of you interested in learning more about positive reinforcement training.
At www.projectparrot.com , Jenny Drummey offers free online training videos to help you get started training your bird. Videos offered are: How To Train A Parrot; How Parrots Learn; and several more training videos on how to train: Targeting; Dropping an Object into a Bowl; Turning Around and much more.
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| Linda Morrow is a professional bird trainer and wrote the parrot clicker training manual, "Clicking With Birds, A Beginners Guide to Clicker Training Your Companion Parrot". Linda hopes by educating others about the value of positive reinforcement training, she will help parrot/human relationships. She shares some clicker training tips at her website, www.avitrain.com, where you can also purchase her book, DVD and training kit.
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| Bird-Click is a list owned and maintained by Melinda Johnson and Wendy Jeffries. Avian behavior and training is the focus of this list serve group. They teach positive reinforcement clicker training. Melinda Johnson is the author of Clicker Training for Birds. Wendy Jeffries, www.wendyjeffries.com, has over 35 years of animal training experience.
The link to join this group is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bird-Click .
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In a recent Bird-Click post, Wendy Jeffries made clear why positive reinforcement and clicker training is so effective.
"It gives all the control to the bird. They get to choose what they want to do. We don't force anything. We don't insist on anything. It is all up to the bird. It is totally his choice whether or not he does a behavior. He discovers he controls you, the very dependable click and treat machine. The realization that he is in control of all good things that flow gives a bird confidence. Shy birds get bolder and try new ways to make the click and treat happen. It becomes a game the bird really enjoys and you are his partner in training. I never tame a bird, I just teach him Stupid Parlor Tricks and very shortly he is tame."
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