- Hey guys.
`So you voted and Bondi won by a landslide.
Holy moly.
Good to know how y'all really feel.
I'm not telling Cressi.
So Touche gets to meet Bondi.
I have no idea how this is gonna go.
I will say that you guys chose the nicer of my birds
because Bondi is the nicest one
By the way, my shirt,
thank you Ronnie's for the love of birds,
they sent me this shirt.
I thought it was super cute.
I had been bugging her to send me some merch shirts
for her store because I wanted to remind everybody
to go support rescues and local rescues and all that stuff.
And especially Ronnie's for the love of birds
cause they do amazing things, but I usually forgot.
And I was like, it'd be so much easier to remember
if I was wearing a shirt that said it.
So thank you guys for my shirt.
Make sure you support your local rescues.
I'm gonna go get Bondi and Touche and see what happens.
I don't know.
I'm hoping it's interesting and not super boring
where they could care less about each other.
So we're gonna see.
Why did it sound like Bondi was out this way?
Who moved Bondi?
Oh my gosh.
Okay. Well, somebody moved Bondi out that way.
I was gonna go this way and get her.
Maybe I'll start with Touche first.
Who should I start with first, Touche or Bondi?
Probably Touche.
I'm gonna start with Touche.
(soft music)
Oh, he is being so good.
You guys this is my last day with him.
I can't stand it.
All right.
Can you wait here?
I'm gonna get Bondi and you get to meet her,
you get to meet her, let's lower this.
I know you want to give her a kiss.
Can you give her a kiss when you see her?
Who is gonna get a kiss?
Are you ready?
(bird chirps)
I know, I'll be right back.
I'm gonna bring her in.
Are you ready?
Oh, my goodness.
She's bigger than you.
Hey there.
And thanks for watching this series
on to Touche the Indian Ringneck.
Now, he's one of the project birds
that I've worked with among many others.
This is also Rusty, another project bird
and it's thanks to my Patreons
over at patreon.com/bird tricks
that I'm able to do this at no cost to either the rescues
or the previous owners of these project birds.
So if you like content like this,
please consider supporting me
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Go (laughs)
Coming over to meet you.
What do you think?
Oh, you pooped, perfect.
When you poop, do you see cute little Touche?
Can you go meet him?
She's just following me, come meet him.
They're just respecting each other, they are.
Your stand isn't over there.
He's like, wait, what?
He got scared of you.
He got scared of you and all your pinkness.
You so terrifying, you are terrifying Bondi.
Touche.
He's used to his play stand being here
and it's outside because I was cleaning.
He tried to land on the camera.
Hey buddy.
Come on.
It's okay.
Well, what's funny.
Look, she's not after you.
You're super uncomfortable?
(bird chirps)
(mumbles)
Can you give a kiss?
Can you do kisses?
Kisses for cuties, nothing?
Treat for you.
(bird chirps)
Now you are into it.
You guys are both like how can we earn treats?
Do you wanna come?
Oh, Bondi knows.
Good girl, Bondi.
Wanna come?
Bondi is like, oh, this is easy,
easy treats.
Okay.
Let's do one you know too, wanna spin around?
Well, honestly this is how you want a first introduction
to go.
You want birds to just respect each other
and respect each other's space and not go after each other
or chase one another.
You don't want to see either one be too intimidated
by the other one.
And natural, like a small amount of fear
or what I would rather call respect is really good
where they're respectful of the other bird,
but they're not like running away from it.
You bringing me the trash?
You can already see they're getting more comfortable
around each other actually.
Huh, you guys dropped shells everywhere.
Cool.
What's going on?
But, yeah, you want birds
to not just go after the other bird and be insanely curious.
You want them to mostly be looking at you
for how the interactions gonna go.
Can I get your pink color?
But you want the birds to be more interested
in interacting with you than each other
upon the first meeting,
just so that they're kind of looking at you
for how the interaction should go.
You don't want them to be overly interested in one another.
Oh, you're looking for,
Bondi boo, you're just like up for performing right now.
Okay.
We are doing this right before dinner, aren't we?
Do a little spin?
So, yeah.
I mean, I guess you guys could eat dinner together.
Is checking their scraps
they're just like ask me to do something
so they can get a treat.
This is how it works right before dinner.
This is why it's a great time to have a training session.
Oh, you pooped again.
But, yeah,
letting the animals kind of dictate the interaction.
This is a great first meeting, to be honest
and Touche is such a little like Torpedo.
And he always has so much energy and he can come across,
like with Lefty, how he kind of bullies sometime,
but he doesn't really anymore and Lefty doesn't allow it,
which is really good.
So just birds learning how to be compatible
with each other is really good.
Are you going to somewhere?
(bird chirps)
Where are you going?
Wanna come?
No, actually just watching these two together,
I feel like Bondi would be a really great match
for teaching Touché to fly to me on cue,
which he's done a few times,
but I've never worked on it consistently.
Hi.
Hi cuties.
You are both adorable.
I would love to hear from you guys about how your experience
went when you introduced to birds for the first time ever.
I would love to hear how you did it
and what the outcome was
because I'm really happy with this outcome.
And normally, I don't actually incorporate treats this early
because sometimes it can cause some food aggression
or some jealousy,
but it's more likely to happen with jealousy
with my two birds, just because they are like, hey,
get out of the way I wanna earn the treat,
but these guys seem great.
You were a very nice birdie to Touche.
But I think it's dinner time.
So I'm gonna go feed these guys some dinner.
You guys ready for dinner?
You ready for dinner?
Yeah.
(soft music)