Hi Douglas,

Actually starving a bird (to train) especially very small species like this will not work... the bird will die before he able to learn anything...The method that Shanglung use is more toward 'building trust'... If you treat the bird nice and understand them, sooner or later you will gain her trust and she will fly to you...

p/s: it is not nice to ask a bird keeper/trainer that he/she "starved" the bird/animals ... most of us here keep bird/animals because we love and appreciate them..

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Tanin Eh Boon
Malaysia Bird Community