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Maalik slammed hard into the window last night, scaring the daylights out of us. You are right. There aren't any parrot perches in that part of the house, primarily because I thought their bird area was expansive enough with enough perches and toys for them to enjoy. They're set up in our dining and living room areas. I do have some dragonwood stands outside, but they have some mildewy material growing on them so they'll need a good sanding down. Our other home looked like a giant bird cage, too. We also have a spacious outdoor aviary for them, but my son's been housing his ducks in it while he builds another 'quack house' for them. It's almost completed, which is good! Picking up some tape material to stripe the windows as a short term fix.

Talon, your home reminds me of that song "I'm gonna hire a wino" [to decorate our home]. Only it looks like you hired parrots. 🤣

Thank you! They're crash landing into either the computer cabinet or into the windows. In our other home there was only 1 window that wasn't protected by their cages they could hit. Their other flight area was a straight shot. Here there are a lot of windows and multiple rooms to navigate through.

Lovely house! But I can see their confusion now. I have no idea how to make ceilings and walls, well, everything really, feel like the simple enclosed box design of a typical house room. Gorgeous house though -- hope they can figure out someway to safely navigate. I know outside birds can accidentally crash into windows, but they do seem to be able to navigate around or to land safely on trees, lamp-posts, bird baths, fences, telephone lines, etc. without injury. Hoping your guys can learn what maneuvers are safe and what to avoid.

Here are a couple images. Second is turning right into where the cages are and where they take off from.

Thank you, Talon. Maalik crashed again 2 nights ago, this time into the window. Extremely concerned he might break his neck one of these times. He was such an adept flyer at our other home that his inability to figure out the boundaries here is perplexing. The rooms are much bigger, and as I'd mentioned before, have high vaulted ceilings. Our ceilings are white and our walls a creamy tone of 'something'! We've already walked them both around their main area multiple times. Guess we'll just keep reintroducing them to the rooms.