(Jinx squawking )
- [Jamie] Did you get your audio check?
- [Dave Off-Screen] Yeah, I'm getting a lot more than that.
- Hey everyone. Jamie Leigh here from Bird Tricks
along with Jinxy, my blue-throated Macau.
And you're about to see a lot more of him
in a way that you've probably never seen him before
on the channel.
Now, the following footage you're about to see is part
of an episode called Bird Tricks Tuesday, where Dave
and I take our birds into the studio and see what body
language they have to give us that we can then describe
to our patrons.
So Jinxy had some interesting body language to
give us that day where he was just not a fan of Dave.
And I promise it'll probably be everybody's favorite episode
of bird tricks Tuesday.
So if you like content like this head over
to patreon.com/birdtricks to check
out more of our body language edition.
- [Dave] Today, we're gonna give you a secret
on how to get ahead in life.
Check one, two, check, check.
This one is Bird Tricks Tuesday
with Jinx and the secret handshake.
I'm gonna be honest.
I don't really know what to expect in this.
Sometimes Jinx likes me
Then there's the rest of the time.
Sure. That you're not-
Buh-buh!
Hey bubs
It's cold outside, huh?
- Okay we got audio going. We got video going.
- All right cool.
So welcome everyone to a different type
of bird tricks Tuesday.
I am so excited about this.
- And I.. have no idea what's happening.
- I asked Dave to help me with the Oh Flock series.
So those of you that are on the Rocko and Morgan tier
see my Oh Flock series where I've been teaching Jinxy
a secret handshake.
What are you getting so angry about?
So I've been
- We have our good days and our bad.
- Yeah. Today's not a good day.
So anyways, I have been teaching Jinx, the secret handshake.
Dave doesn't know about this. He hasn't seen it.
- That's why it's a secret handshake.
Well it was until Bird Tricks Tuesday!
- Me and the Roco tier and Morgan tier.
He knew he is gonna a butt head.
Want you to stand up much closer to Dave?
- Oh, hi.
Okay. So I -
- In other words, we're gonna be
doing a body language one today.
- Yeah. Oh my gosh.
(slo-mo audio)
Okay. So this might not work out to where I thought it would
- This is funny cause like literally five days ago
I was throwing him off of cliffs and sand dunes
and he was my buddy.
(voiceover) YES!
- Today. They're not buddies.
Okay. Well the idea of this Bird Tricks Tuesday is
for Dave to give me tips on how to better train this.
I don't know if it's gonna go over super well today
just seeing how he's acting towards Dave.
But so it might turn into something else
- It's also worth noting how,
when we talk about training
you're often pairing the emotion involved with the behavior
that you're training and you link those two.
And so yeah, since this behavior's already somewhat learned
maybe we're okay.
Maybe not.
We'll find out.
- Maybe not
Okay, so a lot of this episode is gonna be you guys just
hearing a conversation between me and Dave
because I do have a lot to fill him in on.
So one of the, one of the things that Jinx does
if you remember when he gets hormonal,
(sad music starts to play)
it happens from playing with his feet.
Do you remember that?
Like if I play with his feet, he starts to get hormonal
and that's the first, I feel like regurgitate for me.
Come on!
(record scratch)
Did you know that?
- No.
- Okay.
Anyway, he has a foot thing.
He has a thing with his feet.
- Is it a foot fetish?
- When I play with his feet he gets hormonal.
So I kind of thought that I've been able to
redirect some stuff that's been hormonal and change it
into non-hormonal behavior by putting certain things on cue
and pairing up to different emotion, right?
So I thought I could do the same thing with a foot.
So if I developed like a secret handshake and put it on cue
it would trigger a totally different emotion
and become non-hormonal
- Okay.
- Does that make sense?
- Yeah
- Okay. So the first session I had, I don't remember where
I started. I think I might started with him
on a T stand or something and I just like,
he was getting frustrated.
He wasn't really getting the behavior.
He doesn't offer it naturally like that.
He offers it more like more hanging out.
- I do actually remember working on it a little bit, so
- Okay. Okay.
Yeah. So I had two sessions, they looked totally different.
And then I kind of nailed it on the third session when
I put him on my shoulder because that's where naturally
he would start to become more hormonal
and I'd get that certain behavior.
- So many jokes.
I'm just biting my tongue
- I was using an essence of like capturing slash training
because you know, it was a little mix of both.
I just don't know if he's, I feel like I'm gonna
get nailed trying to show this to you.
Now I'm like nervous to do it.
Okay. But I'm gonna try to show it to you
- If it makes you feel better, I'm not nervous.
- I am not nervous.
Okay. Well, yeah, that you're not gonna get nailed.
Yeah. So I'm gonna preface this with normally
if Jinx is showing me this kind of agitated behavior
I would not be putting him on my shoulder
but because I love you guys so much
and it's gonna be a learning experience for all of us.
I am going to do this, but under normal circumstances
if it was just me and Dave and I wasn't filming for anybody
I would probably be like, this is not the time.
- Yeah. I'm gonna step just back
out of the focal camera there a little bit.
Oh look! I'm your size!
(music stops)
- Just having a conversation about how much taller he is.
Okay.
I'm gonna bring my energy down a little bit
because Jinxy is a little bit more heightened
than I would prefer to have a training session.
So I'm hoping that the fact that he just sees the treats
snap him right out of his angry mode, which I feel
like is happening.
All right. Can I have a kiss?
(Jinx squeaks)
Good boy.
Can you do this?
Blahlalalala
(whispers) secret handshake!
- Okay. So that's as far as it is and yes, that is the cue.
"Blahlalala"
(laughing)
- No wonder he gets hormonal
- (laughing) I don't know why
(slo-mo audio of the cue)
- But, okay so, the cue is kinda like wiggling the fingers
and bringing 'em up there.
Right? So it's-
Secret handshake!
And what I want him to do
you can see he right now, he's just lifting it.
What I want him to do is kinda like play with my hands back
which is what, his more so what his hormonal behavior is
- So my thought is, have you FR2'd this?
- No. And I can't find a clicker
- Really? In all of the studio.
- (gasp) I see one.
- There's like four right now.
- No, I meant in the house.
Yeah. They're on display. Those are display clickers.
- Those are display clickers.
- Would you wanna click for me?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
Hey Jinxy.
What's your nickname?
Why are you looking at him?
(handshake cue)
(clicks clicker)
- Lets FR2 this one.
- Okay. So you want me to cue it twice?
- Yeah.
(handshake cue)
(clicks clicker)
- Good job
- Just little higher.
- Yeah!! Buddy!
Oh, that was so good.
Like, you know what you're doing...
(Dave laughing)
I should just have Dave on all my training sessions.
Wow. That was awesome.
- Soo, if you're doing this at home.
- Did he wiggle it?
- Yeah. A little bit.
Get yourself a husband for the background
give him the clicker
so that he can watch his hormonal bird
(laughing)
on his wife's shoulder.
- Oh my gosh.
Okay.
(handshake cue)
(clicks clicker)
- A little higher.
- Did he shake his head on that one?
- I think so.
Bring your hand up higher
- Okay. I'm gonna watch the monitor
so if you guys are wondering why I'm looking off screen,
it'll just help me
(handshake cue)
(clicks clicker)
- (gasps) Ah!!
- So he touched you and that's
what you're looking for, right?
- I am. And I'm looking for like
a little wiggly on his part.
(laughing)
He laughed that time.
Cause I was hilarious, it's so cute
- And just for record on video.
He said Bubba on the one before.
So we have to be very careful not to pair vocal
well a specific vocal with this.
But the laughter's kind of funny.
(mimicking Jinx's laugh)
- Because then I'm getting confused-
- Look at how pissed he is at me!
- I know I'm, I'm getting a little bit stuck
because it would be really cute
if it was like a tickling thing and there was laughing
but it'd also be really cute
if it was like buh-buh-buh-buh-buh
but I don't wanna lose his buh-buh-buh on his head.
(handshake cue)
(clicks clicker)
Yeah! Jinxy!
- So I waited a little bit longer
for extending that behavior.
Let's have far to this again.
Remember to keep your hand high. Okay.
- Okay.
(handshake cue)
(Jinx babbling)
(clicks clicker)
- Good boy.
- One more.
(handshake cue)
(clicks clicker)
- Good job.
- So he's interestingly enough, offering multiple behaviors
with it, but the thing that is making it
so I am clicking- and I'm gonna get
a little closer here so the mic gets me a little better.
The reason that I'm clicking is because I'm not
getting the exact same buh-buh-buh-buh or the laughter
(Jinx screeching)
or I'm not always getting the same vocal with that behavior.
If I was getting that same vocal with the behavior
I would probably stop clicking
and I would only click when I don't get a vocal with it
but we've had a head shake,
we've had a bunch of other behaviors he's trying to pair
and my read on that is
that he's trying to interpret what Jamie wants.
- Yeah.
- But be very careful when you're
when you're doing this type of
- Aww
what you call slash training.
It was like capturing slash training.
- Oh
- When you're doing slash training
- It's both
- make sure that you're not capturing those other behaviors
with the new one you're working on.
So let's do like maybe three more reps.
- Okay. Focus on me, man.
(handshake cue)
(clicks clicker)
Good job. So he held it up longer and like,
did he move his foot a little bit?
- Little bit
but make sure you're holding your hand a little higher
- Man. Okay.
It's really hard to tell
And higher.
And, and drop all the treats.
(clicks clicker)
- Good boy.
- Yeah, so he is like kind of nervously twitching it.
- Okay. Yeah.
That's what I want.
I want like, basically me doing this, I want him doing this
(clicks clicker)
- And jackpot that, cause he offered it
without you having to put your hand right there to do it.
- Yeah.
And now I think I'm comfortable enough
with where he's at to actually look at him.
Cause I've been a little bit nervous
about the safety of my face.
- I, I would stop it there
cause it was the highlight of a good one.
And this comes back to a really good lesson
that you almost saw Jamie screw up on.
And that is when you've got a lot of momentum
and you're like, Hey, this is going great.
Let's just do one more.
Whenever you hear yourself saying, let's do one more.
That was your one more you're finished.
- Yeah. No, that was awesome.
It got so much better.
So for those of you guys on the Roco and Morgan tier
you've seen me have three sessions of this
and they've been kind of sloppy and all over the place.
If I'm totally honest with myself
cause I've just been sort of winging it
- Get it. Aaaahhh
- And I think it was today.
Did I come up with this idea today or yesterday?
- I think last night we were in bed and I was like
(making sleepy noises) yeah, we should do that
That's pretty much how the conversation wait.
Oh my gosh! You're a pooper!
- That's when I come up with my ideas.
Yeah. I was like, you know what would be really cool
if you could help me with this thing
I think you would be amazing.
And it would really, really be beneficial and it'd be cool
for people to see, like Dave's such an organized trainer.
He thinks through every single thing.
And I'm just like, let's just see what happens.
Like that's I think the epitome
of how different we are.
No planning, so
- So another highlight here to point out
for training lesson is to make sure that when you're
when you're working on these types of things
it may look sloppy in the beginning
but go with what's working.
This is something I always draw back
to my free flight students
because there's so many unique lessons in that.
But in one of the recent ones
with Faye, the red tail black cockatoo is
we're struggling getting a recall
where he'd wanna stay on Nika
but he was more than happy to get the treat
and go back to the perch.
And so rather than focusing on having him come to us
we focused on having him go
to the perch because that's what was working.
And then we could shape that into what we wanted.
So just like with what Jamie's doing.
Yeah. It might have been a little sloppy.
It might have been paired with other emotions
but we'll start there because it's working.
- Yeah. Awesome.
- If you guys can be a little more distracting
when I'm giving a lesson that'd be awesome.
- (laughing) I'm sorry! He's really cute.
And he is giving baby wing flaps.
It is a little confusing
you know like you think it's kinda nice.
Anyways.
- Don't believe it
- So cute. Okay.
Well anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed
this episode of Bird Tricks Tuesday.
I know that it kind of meshed with our Oh Flock
which isn't necessarily to the Bondi tier
which is what Bird Tricks Tuesdays are.
But I thought it was just kind of a cool mix.
- She just wanted to show off the secret handshake.
- Well, I wanted it to get better
(both laughing)
and I was like wellllllll
I knew I was missing some stuff.
So thanks babe.
And I think for our, sorry
I think for our next Bird Tricks Tuesday episode
we'll show these two working
through what's going on right here.
Cause this, this is not cool.
- It's a battle for the spouse.
- You're not being very nice
Aww, now you are.
- I think he just needs to be worked with, I'm fine.
- Together. You guys together.
(Dave groaning)
- (laughing) Aaand someone forgot to silence their phone.
(both laughing)
- Screw you for saying something gross to me.
- Dust all that stuff off.
Is that alright? Oh, look at that
- He's gonna kill you. Let him kick your ass man
- All right guys. Thanks for watching.
That's it.
- It's not it. I'm gonna eat your face!
- It's over.
This is why I'm not gonna be putting him away today
because that would be the wrong-
I would get nailed
- If I tried to hand him or
if Dave tried to take him right now, he would get nailed.
But hopefully you guys can tell
that by now with these Tuesday episodes
or we're really not being good teachers.
- And what was it you said this morning?
I don't think we should do body language one
because the birds are really nice today.
- I did.
(both laughing)
I'm like our birds are probably gonna be
soo nice this morning.
I don't even know you continue with the body like yourself.
I did say that.
- Nailed it
- Seriously.
(Dave laughing)
- All right. See you guys.
- Oh my gosh.
They're gonna love that episode.