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Training If your Cockatiel bites you, it's not because it dislikes you, but because biting is a way of expressing its frustration or dissatisfaction over something else. When bitten the first thing for you to do is retrieve your hand or whichever part with as little damage as possible. You can do this by moving the part the bird is holding onto, closer to its body, making it extremely inconvenient for the bird to continue biting and forcing it to let go.

Don't ever beat the bird. Because if you do, you will reach an irredeemable situation. The cause will be as good as lost. Some trainers suggest that you give the bird "Time Out". Give it a stick to bite on or use a towel if required and move the bird to a cage other that its regular cage kept in another solitary portion of the house and keep it there for about 10 - 15 minutes with nothing or no one to interact with.

To stop biting Training Subsequently, look for reasons for the bird's aggressive behavior. Its biting can be because of any number of reasons. Feed, water, air, light, sleep, exercise, cage placement and so on. If your pet is a happy and satisfied bird, there is no reason for it to bite. Make sure that all these things are in order. Another reason a bird could bite is because of insufficient or improper basic training. During basic training, the bird will learn that good behavior is rewarded while bad behavior is not. During this time, the bird also learns to trust and be complacent in human company which it begins to identify as its flock.

If a previously well behaved bird is beginning to bite, it means that something in its routine has gone awry. Its behavior has to be set right. You may want to put the bird through the paces of the basic commands of "step up" and "step down" and associate these exercises with proper behavior, words of appreciation and rewards.

Try not to give the bird the opportunity to bite you. When you want the bird to step up make sure your hand approaches it at Training just the correct height. Bring your hand up from below the bird. Raise it to a height where the bird can easily step onto your hand from the perch. If you see a bite coming after the bird steps onto your hand tilt your hand a little to momentarily imbalance the bird. Its focus will then shift from biting you to regaining its balance.