dvd87 get your bird back—what to do when a parrot is lost

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DVD87 Get Your Bird Back—What to do when a Parrot is Lost

There are few things more heartbreaking than when a beloved parrot accidentally escapes.
Barbara Heidenreich and Robin Shewokis were inspired to make this DVD by the thousands of pleas from parrot owners desperately seeking help to recapture a lost bird.

FEATURES
Detailed Instructions to help you get your Lost Parrot back
Useful tools such as:
Lost Bird Flyers
Lists of people to contact
A Variety of Parrot Calls

This DVD is a must for any parrot owner. Be prepared. Learn in advance how to prevent the heartache so many have experienced when a parrot is lost.

Recommended Viewing and Reading

Pet Behaviour and Training DVD
Training Your Parrot for the Veterinary Exam DVD
Understanding Parrot Body Language DVD

Parrot Problem Solver
Good Bird
A Guide to Pet and Companion Birds
Back Issues of Australian BirdKeeper Magazine

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PRESENTED BY BARBARA HEIDENREICH AND ROBIN SHEWOKIS
Running time: DVD—27 minutes. Resource CD—includes Lost Bird Flyers for over 50 species, Bird Calls for over 30 species, Notification Lists and Preparation Checklists.
It’s an unfortunate reality but when we keep parrots as pets, accidental fly-offs can and do occur. This has happened to me personally on a few occasions over the years and luckily I was able to retrieve my parrots when these situations unexpectedly arose.
As keepers of pet birds it is an essential obligation to be prepared with the right knowledge and a set of clear and rational steps to follow to ensure that you get your bird back.
Barbara Heidenreich from Good Bird Inc has teamed up with Robin Shewokis of The Leather Elves to provide parrot owners with this very comprehensive DVD and resource CD incorporating a well thought-out set of plans and procedures for managing a fly-off event.
The DVD takes the parrot owner through a step-by-step guide that offers the best—and hopefully the most effective—pathway for retrieving a lost parrot. In addition to the visual re-enactments and strategy guide provided on the DVD, Barbara and Robin have also put together a comprehensive set of resources on an additional CD that will be invaluable if your parrot unexpectedly flies off. Containing a comprehensive set of MP3 format bird calls to assist in luring an escaped parrot back to a retrieval area, a set of species specific ‘Lost Bird’ printable flyers and a range of other printable resources—including an excellent ‘Escape Kit Checklist’—the resource CD offers added support to your DVD and will ensure that you are prepared and ready if this unexpected event occurs.
An essential addition to the reference library of any parrot owner, I would nevertheless really like to have seen some extended visual coverage of the step-by-step training approximations required to teach your parrot some of the essential retrieval skills that are discussed in the DVD.
Although most of these skills are indeed covered in Barbara’s other DVDs I really feel that they should have been included here as well to set this initiative up as a more complete support resource for both preventative and reactive management of fly-offs.
As it stands, the novice parrot owner will still need to purchase both of Barbara’s training DVDs in order to really gain a complete understanding of how to prepare a parrot for behaviours such as entering a carry crate, stepping on to a dowel perch, stepping on to the hand of a stranger and, perhaps most importantly, recall flying down from an elevated height on cue.
A chapter menu at the start of the DVD was another missing component that perhaps a second edition of this product might hopefully contain.
Well done to Barbara and Robin on creating a resource that—much the same as Barbara’s Training for the Veterinary Exam and Understanding Bird Body Language DVDs—is innovative and desperately needed within the bird owning community, filling a void that no one else is catering for in parrot keeping education.