Birds are a lot like babies.
It's almost impossible to train them, they bite a lot, they eat messily, they shit whenever and wherever they want to, lots of screaming.
when they do behave tho it's very rewarding. one of these buggers, cockatoos, at the zoo is very friendly and since i frequent it and always spend some time with it in front of the cage, showing it shiny things and whistling at it, it somehow decided to give me a pebble as a token of gratitude? frienship? i don't know but it was very lovely. too bad the pebble didn't fit through the mesh holes... i was still very grateful tho. ^^ people who passed by must've thought i had lost it, stading there and giggling at a bird but it was a genuinely nice moment.
It's almost impossible to train them, they bite a lot, they eat messily, they shit whenever and wherever they want to, lots of screaming.