Is there a differance between bonding and relationships, yes there is but you can`t have one without the other. With bonding there is a relationship. With out a relationship there is no bonding.
This statement is true if you have a African Grey a Cockatiel, a Macaw or a Amazon along with any other bird you share your home with.
Amazons have a reputation of being aggressive, hormonal, unpredictable, and I beleaved all that I read about them and to some degree this is true.
Every bird that I have had over the last 39 years was a pet or better yet a companion that we enjoyed to it`s fullest
I have to admit I was afraid of a zon in no uncertian terms, not the bird for me, no way no how. I want a bird I can trust and a zon was not that bird.
WELL I WAS WRONG.
Bonding with out expectations no treats no tricks just us sitting there with each other.
Treats were used as a bribe to start with but as things went on they were stoped and replaced with a head rub a beak rub a scratch under the beak and than the scratch went to the head and beak and this went on for 2 or 3 weeks and she moved from the hand to the shoulder with no sign of aggression.
To this day she has never bitten me and I have complete trust in her and I beleve she has complete trust in me and we still sit with each other for very long periods of time just talking and her jibbering.
I never though I would ever let her on my shoulder when she first came to live with us but that is her chosen place and it`s with out fear.
We just sit there with out expectations jibbering back and forth.