One of our visitors gave Kipling our Southern Ground Hornbill a foraging toy today. It was so much fun to watch him go nuts on it. He even appeared to offer it back. Mad love for this goofy guy. | Avian Behavior Conservancy

Nigel the screech owl is getting a training session with one of his handlers. It’s spooky season officially and our owls are ready for lots of education programs to meet San Diego County residents. With days getting longer, lots of weather pattern changes, and migratory species changing foraging patterns, you might be hearing more owls. Nigel looks on as migrating turkey vultures become more present in our Southern California skies. Even though they are no threat to him, he keeps an eye on their

Speaking of boldness! Yesterday we talked about boldness as an individual trait. It shows up as a learned, or operant behavior, when we need to shape curiosity and build skills playing with toys and foraging to bring us closer to solutions in screaming and attacking, when our birds don’t have a large repertoire of behaviors. Or confidence to try new things! Kingston the blue throated macaw is demonstrating how we start very basically to avoid the expression of a fear response and shape more inte

Foraging for food is an important part of our birds’ day, and the foraging devices can be pretty simple. It’s ok if it causes the animal a little bit of time to think through the problem. Huxley gets to use a little bit of brainpower here to get a tough piece of meat out of this PVC connector. He will likely get faster and faster, which will cause us to think it new ways to make his food harder to get. That waddle! 🥰 | Avian Behavior Conservancy

14K views · 930 reactions | Baltimore Orioles trade time foraging on an orange in front of the Cornell Lab FeederWatch cam.   AllAboutBirds.org/CornellFeeders Adult males are flame-orange and black, with a solid-black head and one white bar on their black wings. Females and immature males are yellow-orange on the breast, grayish on the head and back, with two bold white wing bars. Have you seen an oriole recently? | Bird Cams | Facebook