MAYBE SHE'S BORN WITH IT? MAYBE IT'S THE COMPLEX INTERPLAY BETWEEN GENES AND EXPERIENCE
EXERCISE 3 - FIRST THIS, THEN THAT
Now that you've practiced looking at parrots and describing what you see in isolated snap shots, the next step is looking at sequences of body language. Some body language and behaviors are likely to happen before or after others. Practicing looking at sequences is a great way to learn how to spot the often very small changes in body language that might preceede "big" behavior like biting or flying away, and building fluency for observing parrots in real life.
By using the same principles as earlier, try writing down what you can see the parrot doing in the sequence of pictures below. What is the bird doing in picture 1? What is the same and how has the body language changed in picture 2?
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Next it's time to start looking at some birds in action! Try describing the sequences of body language that you see happening in the videos below. Feel free to pause and rewind as much as you want. It's often a good idea to start looking at one part of the bird at first, write down what you see, then rewinding and looking at another area of the body to build fluency in noticing the changes in different body parts. Feel free to use the observation checklist as a guide. Below the videos you'll find some suggestions to compare your observations with.
