Dave007

""""""When I put my hand near his feet and say 'come on' he just lowers his head covering his feet and walks backwards.""""" You need to actually put your fingers against the lowest part of the breast with part of your finger lightly touching the upper part of the foot. Just putting your hand in front of your bird won't accomplish anything if he doesn't wanna come on the finger. You need physical touching and it won't happen overnight. It takes a while for your bird to understand what you're doing. Do it slow, do it easy and keep your hand there and talk to him.<br><br>Post edited by: Dave007, at: 2009/05/05 19:08

Thank the heavens above. Dan is completely right on target. Males and females do talk. Females talk. They have a supurb way of saying the same thing. This is not uncommon. Loads of things to say with the final result being one conclusion.---It's best that I should have taken a nap during the conversation. What is very important here is that it doesn't apply to birds. A little tip concerning your bird talking--have conversations with your bird. Don't expect any immediate replies. Talking to them perks their interest. They'll be quiet and will intently listen and eventually pick out things that appeal to them. Try to stay away from local gossip.

Natasha You ask *how much calcium is too much?* When your bird is getting all the natural calcium that greens and by products of greens offer, there is no such thing as *too much calcium*. The body metabalizes the calcium and the bird's system absorbs it. It's not too common to bring a bird to a vet with him/her saying that the bird has too much calcium. Results come back saying the bird has low calcium levels, not excessive calcium levels. Lack of other things usually comes up in vet tests so don't worry about that. Just be very happy that your bird is eating an excellent diet. One other thing about what you said concerning all other birds eating pellets---it's not true that all birds will eat pellets. Quite a few hate pellets and will actually toss them out of a food bowl, not just play with them. Many people here can tell you that their birds refuse pellets and other peoplecan tell you how they've tried to trick the bird into eating pellets even though the bird's diet was quite sufficient.

Hi and welcome to the board. Lots of people here with different greys and also other species. Whenever you wanna post pics, plrease do so. The people here love photos

Congrats on getting the TAG out of the hell hole. Once or twice a year ( depending upon surronding humidity in the bird area) your bird will molt his feathers. Just about any feather that had any odor embedded will be lost. They are immediately replaced. What won't be lost are the flight feathers and tail feathers. They fall out at different times when the feather's blood supply dries up. There is no particular time for them to fall out 2 here 2 or 3 there during the year. They're immediately replaced by a fresh new clean feather. The same applies to tail feathers. What's in the bird's favor is that cigarette smell can't soak into flight and tail feathers. They have a natural waterproof oil on them. You can continue misting cause whether the bird smells or not, it always needs a bath. All greys do. Please make sure that no chemicals are used to remove the odor. Now, as far as the eyes, what you're is is a yellow pigmentation that signifies that the bird is a full adult. The eyes aren't tobacco stained so don't worry about that. PS--are you referring to the white around the black pupil of the eye? That's what I was referring to. Post edited by: Dave007, at: 2009/05/05 06:13 Post edited by: Dave007, at: 2009/05/05 06:15<br><br>Post edited by: Dave007, at: 2009/05/05 06:18

Yes they do--there's no difference between the two. It's a fallacy concerning the male to female. female to male bonding. That theory is old and has been proven wrong. The whole thing has to do with a good relationship between you and the bird being built up from the get go.

There's always tomorrow. And the day after and the day after that day. Your time is a coming. The bite's a brewing and the beak's a tuning AND THERE SHALL BE DELIVERANCE!!! matthew 24 psalm 7

Devin Snake charmer, mistake I mean Carol has given you the whole story about snakes from start to finish. It applies to almost all snakes and getting the com[plete info on them is great BUT percentage and comparison wise, all of the information she gave you is equal to only 1% of what you would have to learn about greys. pre owned parrots are great but not so great with people who don't know the basics and differences in parrots who are fine and parrots who are disabled. A disabled parrot is known in the parrot world as a *special needs* bird and that means that it needs specialized everyday treatment in order to make it's life somewhat normal. There's special needs birds that come in all catagories. Another thing--whether it be a pre own normal grey or a special needs grey, there is a price tag. People don't give their birds away. 85% of the time, ads that offer free birds turn out to be false or come with shady attachments. The environments you name off ( quiet--being alone etc) doesn't mean that a special needs bird will be helped. A plucker doesn't stop being a plucker because it's in a quiet place. Actually, they can become pluckers for the reverse reasons. Disabled birds need special housing equipment. Aggressive birds don't become sweet birds because they're in a quiet environment. These types of birds need much more interaction with their owners and those birds will easily put a deep hole in your hand without much provacation. Ever stop and wonder why many birds are being sold when they're adults? They don't have to be disabled. Simply putting an aggressive bird in a quiet, peaceful environment won't accomplish anything because no matter what that bird's situation is, it still needs to be NOT kept in a cage all the time. Forget the free bird attitudes. * Special needs* birds are in shelters all over the place and there is a charge. There's always a charge both in money and there's a non monetary charge in what you need to pay when taking on a bird--no matter what shape the bird is in. That includes baby birds, aggressive birds, disabled birds etc. There's loads and loads and loads of posts here that speak about birds with problems.

I think you have that in reverse. The calcium and calcium byproducts come from the vegetables, especially very dark veggies. calcium isn't in the fruit. Other vitamins are in the fruit but too much fruit can cause problems because of the citric acid. Pellets are fine but lose all their value after 3 mts. So if your bird is eating veggies and some fruit and some parrot mix but not pellets, there's nothing to worry about. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your post though. You're saying that he will eat greens and fruit and parrot mix but not the pellets?<br><br>Post edited by: Dave007, at: 2009/05/04 20:48

You named off the reasons correctly. Wasn't allowed to learn how to fly. Another reason was wasn't capable of flying for a period of time when flying should have been allowed to develop. Many birds who start the lessons of learning how to fly way past their normal age of those starting lessons may not be able to become very adept or accurate when they do start flying. Those types of things develop best when the bird is young. "" even try even though she has all of her flight feathers again."" So, at one point she didn't have them. Having flight feathers throughout creates an accurate coordinated flyer. She may gain accuracy and increasing constant distance or it may remain like it is. Only time and her future confidence will tell what will happen or change.

I too agree with many things that have already been said but I really don't think the full scope of things have been brought up. One major thing is behavior and another is personality. First of all, most birds that are in shelters are old than 3 or 4 yrs old. Most of the reasons why birds are in shelters have a variety of problems that go way beyond * money, death of owner, new baby, moving, new spouse.* If these were the most common reasons that existed, they wouldn't be in shelters in the first place. They would be in a new home without ever reaching that stage where a shelter was needed. Those types of birds could easily be passed on to others with little problems. The problems that these shelter birds have are related to ownership by people who had no control or experience with these problem birds and ingrained personalities of these birds which make it very difficult for people to adopt them because they would be going to a new place with the same problems. It's easy to say * do the right thing--adopt.* But then, that person has to go home with that adopted bird and deal with those problems. The most common reasons that parrots are in shelters are aggression, being seriously introverted, extremely extroverted, untrainable, unable to be handled, not trustworthy, extremely nervous, self mutilation, inability to socialize, refusing to do many common things such as coming out of a cage or going in a cage, difficulty of putting a bird back to one place without being seriously injured, inability to live with other animals, being unsuccessful breeders. There's even more reasons but I'll just name off these things. Many of these birds can't be adopted unless the people understand this type of baggage* and are willing to put up with some of these things. These people have already experienced these personality traits. Some of these problems can be lessened and some can be totally cured. So many can't. Going to a shelter and deciding to take these types of birds home can lead to that same bird winding back in that shelter over and over because many people who wanna do the right thing wind up being overwhelmed. There are people who don't like the idea that their bird needs to be in a shelter. Many of these birds have been previously owned by others and those birds had the same problems. Many of these people really would like to reconnect with their birds but many times, it's too late. I also know about this *first hand*. These were the types of birds ( all species) I worked with for the 6 yrs I lived in MO. I was in a behavior clinic and people brought their birds there in order to be taught how to deal with all the problems listed above. The only one I never dealt with were macaws because I was leery of them and they knew it. The husband and wife owners of this place were 2 retired people who were involved in law enforcement, one being a policeman, the other being a correctional officer in a state prison down there. They specialized in breeding greys and amazons. This place had a 35% success rate which was actually a decent percentage. Many people eventually left their birds there though. My hands and arms were bruised and bitten and I was bitten close to my genitals. Many of these birds were past the point of being pets. These birds weren't special. These were the types of birds that were in many shelters/adoption centers. The only reason I'm still not there is because I moved to PA. The problems above had many facets connected to each one. These were the birds that people could adopt. After all, it was an adoption center and people were told about these birds. Only the people who knew what bird keeping was all about took these birds because they knew about one of the most important things about these birds---all of these parrots were *wild animals* just like all the tame baby parrots that live successfully in millions of homes today. I'll give an example of a certain bird who now belongs to me. He's a Timneh. His name is Tee. He was given to me when he was 8 yrs old. He's now 14 . He was a decent looking, fully feathered typical bird who didn't talk, ate well, was able to live in a cage. I should also say that Tee was never in any type of shelter. His only purpose in life was tio be a viscious attack bird. In his previous home, all he did was go after the wife, the husband and finally the baby they had. In the home before that, his personality was exactly the same. Luckily, he never succeeded with the baby. When the baby was attacked, that's when I received a midnight call from the husband asking if I would take him and I did. When he was here all he did was the exact same thing. He went after me, my wife.my other birds, my dog and he succeeded. He even tried to bite the fish in my aquarium. It took 1 1/2 yrs to bring this bird back to what people would consider to be a pet bird. I was seriously and constantly bitten and my wife was too. Over and over and over. The dog just avoided him. He had to be separated from the other birds. I doubt that there would be many people who would have wanted to deal with him. If he was in a shelter back then, he would still be in a shelter right now. I need to credit my wife for the tremendous time and effort she also put into dealing with this bird and turning him around. She's a brave person. She's a bird person though. I also agree to a certain extent about not getting a baby bird but problems arising with those birds are many times caused by the owners from the get go. Lets start it off by putting diapers on a bird, taking the bird around by putting it in a baby carriage, and worst of all, disabling a bird's normal functions simply because people want control over an animal that's totally different then any other bird which is flight and doing that can be the start of many personality changes and inabilities to develop and function as a bird and all of these things are done for the convenience and control that people want over a creature who is definitely different. If you own a dog who is somewhat of a biter, do you pull all of it's teeth out to avoid the discomfort of being bitten?? PS--it wasn't only me in that shelter. There were 5 others besides the owners that did the same thing. Post edited by: Dave007, at: 2009/05/03 21:15 Post edited by: Dave007, at: 2009/05/03 21:27<br><br>Post edited by: Dave007, at: 2009/05/03 21:29

A new way to describe the birds and bees A little boy goes to his father and asks "Daddy, how was I born?"? The father answers: "Well son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway! Your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo. Then I set up a date via e-mail with your Mom and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into a secluded room, where your mother agreed to a download from my hard drive. As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall, and since it was too late to hit the delete button, nine months later a little Pop-Up appeared that said: "You've got male!"

where do redheads come from? After their baby was born, the panicked father went to see the obstetrician. "Doctor," the man said, "I don't mind telling you, I'm a little upset because my daughter has red hair. She can't possibly be mine." "Nonsense," the doctor said. "Even though you and your wife both have black hair, one of your ancestors may have contributed red hair to the gene pool." "It isn't possible," the man insisted. "This can't be, our families on both sides had jet-black hair for generations." "Well," said the doctor, "let me ask you this. How often do you have sex?" The man seemed a bit ashamed. "I've been working very hard for the past year. We only made love once or twice every few months" "Well, there you have it!" the doctor said confidently. "it's rust!"<br><br>Post edited by: Dave007, at: 2009/05/02 22:32

Beau probably grew up in the rough part atta town. High pitched voices ain't looked upon very good. Neighbors would be eyeballing Beau. Gots to be cool. Is you getting ma drift woman?

I have a disease called Kleptomania. When it really gets bad, I have to take something for it.

You'll never see any type of foreplay and eventual buildup to the actual creation of a nestbox if they're left in that box. If they've been staying in that box simply to protect themselves, it's obvious that it wasn't used for mating or raising clutches. Hopefully, they're away from all the other birds and only live in your family. I believe you should take the box away and let them enjoy the freedom of an exposed area. All breeders are left in the open so that they can be seen by the owners. As far as future clutches, that depends upon the birds, their abilities as breeders, their health quality, their actual breeding attraction to each other etc. Right now they deserve to be exposed to open surroundings. Don't worry about a clutch. They've already been through a lot hiding from other birds. Even if you take away nestboxes, you can't have them living in the same cages with other birds. They need to be alone and get comfortable again.

Hmmm-picking 2 animals that are as far apart as far apart can be. Choosing between a predator animal or a prey animal. Simple solution here. Simply sit down and ask yourself whether you want an animal that needs to interact with it's owner OR pick out an animal that likes to slither around and eats mice and rats and wraps their body around you. No, we don't send people to reptile boards. This is a bird board. You found us. I'm sure you can find a reptile board.<br><br>Post edited by: Dave007, at: 2009/05/02 19:32

I'd like to say something else concerning clipping. What causes me to write is because of so many posts that concern the actual time of clipping. Some breeders are the worst offenders because they want to make it extremely comfortable by having a bird in the house. Some vets should also take the weight for this action. IF a bird is going to be clipped, the worst time for that to occur is when the bird has just reached the total weaning stage and is ready to go home. Even though the bird is totally weaned that doesn't mean that the bird's muscles have totally developed. It doesn't mean that the bird has automatic coordination. It doesn't mean that the bird has confidence. All of these things have to be developed with a set of wings no matter how irritating or scary it may make people feel. There's things that have to be thought out----lack of muscle strength in the breast bone area and in the wings due to the lack of wings. --Inability to build up that strength when flapping because there's no upward draft going on. That means that a young bird who has a complete set of unclipped wings creates a reverse power. When flapping, the wings create a draft that will definitely cause the bird to be lifted upward. That action also creates muscles to develop. The bird on the cage won't go anywhere. Nature has told it that it doesn't have all the tools to fly yet. Instead, the bird holds on to the bars of the cage and intensely flaps. The bird continues this constantly until nature tells it that the time has come to fly because the bird can no longer fight that upward draft because the wings are too strong. To achieve this takes many months after it's been weaned. Furious flapping and going no where and finally the same flapping pushing the bird away. What's the difference between the unclipped and clipped bird w2ho was clipped when it was a baby? Well, that clipped bird does all the same things that the unclipped bird does but the big difference has to do with the upward draft that the flight feathers are capturing. On a clipped bird there are no flight feathers catching that draft and that causes muscles to not develop as strongly as the unclipped bird. When the time comes for both birds to finally take off, the major difference is that the unclipped bird will fly horozontily and glide down. The clipped bird will take off and immediately fly straight down because the flight which provide the lift aren't there and have never been there. Depending upon the severity of that clip, the bird may go straight down and bounce off the floor and many of those floors are uncarpeted. The next important action that happens is coordination--the unclipped bird can immediately practice flying and master the act of flying. That also takes a while. The clipped bird can't do this because it hasn't even learned how to fly straight and more than likely won't learn those skills until wings come in which usually takes a long time. While waiting for those wings to come in, accidents happen. The bird loses the desire to fly because all it has to look forward to is a trip to the floor. BUT, the clipped bird learns to start life without flying and many times, gets used to that life. Now finally the new set of wings are in. It's been a long time waiting because flight feathers never grow back all at the same time. During that waiting period, many birds decide to not go through the process of learning how to fly because they still remember the trips to the floor. So,my point is--think very carefully when someone offers to clip that baby bird after buying it. It's very easy for a breeder to clip a baby bird's wings before shipping but understand that what's not covered in the guarantee/warranty in that well check done by a vet that's done purchasing is 1---the bird's inablity to fly 2---the bird's lack of coordination 3---the bird's lack of proper muscle power 4---what will happen to the bird when the clipped bird decides to go through the action of learning how to fly. 5---the condition of the wings as far as growing back. 6---that amount of time it will take that bird to learn how to fly. 7---any type of promise that the bird will actually learn how to fly. All of these things are the responsibility of the new owner and most new owners wanna do the right thing from the get go. By the time all of these potential problems are finally discovered that warranty/guarantee has long since expired but it wouldn't matter that it expired because the guarantee/warrantee never covered those things in the first place. I'll bring nature into this thread again simply because parrots are wild animals just like many other birds. While watching wild birds going through the whole learning how to fly process, that baby bird always picks a very safe area to fly to when the time comes to leave the nest and he/she repeats it over and over again until it knows it's strength can finally get it from point A to point B with no problems. The parents purposely pick out the spot to raise a clutch because nature tells the parents to do that. And I'll add this PS to my post--- Sadly, many buyers aren't told that there may be headaches, frustraitons and delays and minor disapointments that go along with getting that bird. It definitely isn't the new buyer's fault. New buyers aren't mind readers. Post edited by: Dave007, at: 2009/05/01 20:07 Post edited by: Dave007, at: 2009/05/01 20:16<br><br>Post edited by: Dave007, at: 2009/05/01 20:21

Words can not describe the depth of his feelings and thoughts. The mind is an easy thing to lose. Jim all I can say is good luck on your journey into the abyss.

Put a clip-on set of mickey mouse ears on. The bird will stop flying to your head. Hmmmm, PS--make sure you remove them if there's a knock on the door and people visit.

A tip for those people who are having a scary time with their glass windows and glass sliding doors and such----go to a dollar store or to an arts and crafts store and pick up a couple of packages of Cling Ons or something similar. They're paper thin, many patterns, many colors. They work just like the items that are put on refrgerators except there's no magnet. Just put some of these items on your windows and glass doors. Birds will be able to see them. They stick on and can be taken off and reused over and over. There's no glue involved either. I use these things on my rear glass sliding door in the backyard because hundreds of small buntings and goldfinches and chickadees are constantly invading the feeders from all angles and many times, they would go crashing into the glass and wind up dead or temporarily unconscious. With the stickers, they see the glass and avoid it.

Well, I can tell you about the personality of a quaker in order for you to understand what may be going on. Quakers are a naturally aggressive, possessive, jealous type of bird. They've been referred to as a wild macaw in a quaker's body. They actually prefer going after a much larger bird as opposed to one that's it's size or smaller. Quakers are extremely quick and can cause a grey grief and frustration simply because the grey doesn't have any way of dealing with a quick aggressive bird. Quakers run circles around greys. Greys are slow and clumsy compared to a quaker. A flighted quaker will go after a larger bird from many angles. Most of the time, the grey will back off and try to put itself in a safe place to avoid a quaker. Whether they will be friends depends on their personalities. My guess is that if the two birds have the ability to get away from each other, there may be some peace. Always expect the quaker to win the battle though. """He seems to be talking a little less when we are in the room """"" Very normal. Many greys do their most talking when no one is around. """He still seems like he is "shivering" or his feathers are "quivering" almost like he is scared - is this common and how long before he feels more comfortable?""" As long as this is a once in a while reaction there's nothing to worry about. Greys do it for a few reasons. Being slightly fearful, something unknown coming closer, being handled in a new way, being afraid of something strange that's being given to them, a warning sign that they feel unsure about you at certain times.

I'm against wing clipping but it's true that this subject needs to be dealt with with kid gloves. I'm now putting on my kid gloves because if legitimate deep debates occur, it can stimulate unintentional nastiness between people. Those people usually contain people who've had birds for quite a while and people are newer owners who may be following advice of others who say a certain thing is standard practice without knowing the whole scope of wing clipping. There are things that can happen to greys who are clipped that have to do with personality, physical development, lack of independance. Different species of parrots have different personalities when they finally reach adolescence. Many times, when a very young grey is purchased, the bird is extremely dependent on the owners for a variaty of things. Most owners are thrilled about this and look forward to the grey always being this way through adolescence and into an older age. That's when many problems start occuring. Now before I continue, I'd like to say that this isn't an insult to anyone. It's never done on purpose nor is it a person's fault because what I'm gonna say may rub people the wrong way. It's because of a grey's adult personality which causes many people to say that a grey shouldn't be a person's first bird. The reason that's said is because of a natural personality change which can upset many people because that change is totally different than when the bird was dependent. Concerning the personality of a grey---eventually, the grey become much more aloof, doesn't want to cuddiled as much, shows a tendency to wanna be alone, wants to do things when it wants to do things, how to do things and where it wants to do things, exhibites more nipping and biting than when it was a baby. Many people look upon this a loss of love to the opwner and it upsets them. It's simply a grey's personality and it has nothing to do with love. Look at other species of birds and a variation of these things are present or not present. A grey can give the appearance of a bird who's lost interest in the family structure but that's not happening. People though, insist that's what is going on and proceed to do things to bring that bird back to be dependent. Problems start. Plucking feathers, chewing feathers,otrher types of self mutilation,moodiness, an increase in biting, lack of interest in things, a huge increase in vet visits and many other changes. Now, it's recently be brought up here that people shouldn't be so negative to others about wing clipping especially since wing clipping has been accepted for a long time world wide in the bird world. Well, I can say that it's not true at all. In Europe, the huge majority of parrot owners in many countries consider and look upon wing clipping as being akin to animal cruelity. I realize that many people here can't do this but in Europe, they have a totally different way of avioding many problems concerning potential problems and that method is to give parrots as much outside time as possible concerning flying creatures so when those parrots are back in their homes, they have little desire to fly away. People in Europe are very good at training parrots free flight and harness flight that have extremely long leads on them. Many of these parrots are outside for most of the day. If anyone here is into various nature shows that feature people who are telling and showing the lifestyles of other animals that have nothing to do with birds, you'll often see parrots of all types standinng around the owners and they all have the ability to fly away and they do and they come back. Many of these birds are the long tailed varieties which have the ability to fly miles away which they do. When back in a house, they have no desire to crash into windows in order to get out. The young captive birds here do that because beyond those windows is an area where they wanna be. It's a bird's nature to wanna be there because parrots are wild animals who will always stay as wild animals throughout their lives whether they're free or are indoor pets. I'm not telling anyone here that they must follow those methods. My only point here is that wing clipping isn't accepted world wide as a final solution. There are many methods to achieve different things. So basically, this is my take on wing clipping. Post edited by: Dave007, at: 2009/04/30 19:47<br><br>Post edited by: Dave007, at: 2009/04/30 19:53

PROVENTRICULAR DILATATION SYNDROME General Information First recognized in the early 1970’s, proventricular dilation was originally called “Macaw Wasting Disease”, as the disease caused a gradual wasting of macaws. Since that time, the disease has affected many species of pet birds. What is proventricular dilatation syndrome? Proventricular dilatation syndrome is a condition affecting the nerves supplying the gastrointestinal tract of birds, mainly the proventriculus or true stomach. Nerves supplying other organs may also be affected, and in some cases an encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) may also occur. What causes the condition? It has recently been confirmed that a virus causes this condition. Microscopically, the affected nerves are inflamed with an infiltration of certain types of white blood cells. What are the signs of birds affected with proventricular dilatation syndrome? The old name, “Macaw Wasting Disease”, aptly describes affected birds. Birds have a lack of appetite, show regurgitation, may pass undigested seeds in their feces, and exhibit weight loss. Neurologic signs such as seizures or tremors may also occur. No one sign is definitive for the condition; however, proventricular dilatation should be suspected in birds with chronic unexplained regurgitation, weight loss, and any time undigested foods are seen in the droppings. How is the condition diagnosed? Clinical signs may suggest proventricular dilatation syndrome. Radiographs (X-rays), including a barium series may also strongly suggest the condition. The only definitive way to diagnose proventricular dilation syndrome is with a biopsy of the proventriculus, although a biopsy of the crop (grinding part of the stomach), which is easier to perform, is accurate most of the time. A serum test is under development. How do birds acquire the condition? Because we don’t know the exact cause, it’s unknown how the condition is spread. Not all birds that are exposed to an infected bird will develop the condition, although the condition can spread throughout a flock of birds. To be safe, birds diagnosed with proventricular dilatation syndrome should be isolated from healthy birds. Can the disease be treated? Finally, there is a medication that is showing some promise in treating PDD, if it is detected in the early stages. If left untreated, PDD is always fatal.<br><br>Post edited by: Dave007, at: 2009/04/30 18:05

Clipping wings often changes a grey's personality. Greys are independent birds and their personality is best when they can function the way they're used to functioning. Sometimes, problems do happen to a bird just because another person says it's correct. There are breeders that will clip wings when a bird has been just weaned. Very cruel and that would cause many physical and mental problems. Yours isn't a baby. She's developed in a certain way. Personality and regular behavior? you said it yourself ""BoobieLu is another bird she cant fly the house like she use to, and she does not talk or sing this is not her behavior"" It'll take some time for her to get used to this adjustment of her abilities. Eventually, she'll start to talk but she first has to feel comfortable and many times, that takes much longer than one month. If a bird was fully functional and adept at flying for quite a while then it will take quite a while to readjust to it's limited functions. Sorry to say this but there is no quick fix concerning a personality change when caused by wing clipping. You need patience and she needs the time to readjust.