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by can » Wed Oct 13, 2010 11:52 pm
Hey - I wouldn't do it in your bathroom, the room is unfamiliar to your bird and there are a lot of hard surfaces and tricky angles (sink, toilet, bathtub, etc.). I'd try to tame your bird in a room his use too. I would cover the window by maybe tacking up a sheet.
With our parrot finch, I just sit down to work or read a book, and open his cage door and let him come out on his own. The window in the room is old fashion and made up of diamond-shaped planes of glass (if that makes sense), so my birds don't really fly into it. I try and wait him out and let him find his own way back in the cage. My male society is catching on faster then my parrot finch, however. I think this way he'll feel safer and calmer coming out of his cage.
I would try opening up the cage and maybe putting his food or a treat (fruit, something he likes) just outside the door, so his confidence builds slowly.
4 green singing finches, 2 society, 2 zebra, 1 owl and 4 wonderful cats
Here are 3 societies and different mutations of gouldian chicks. They never develope a fear of you if you feed from very young and continue to work with them. Though I encourage mine to be birds and release them with other finches and have little interactions with them. They will resort to acting like normal finches...but always seem to be very trusting of me forever. Of course if kept with other handraised and time spent daily handling them they will remain tame. I just don't have the desire for hand tamed finches...I am too busy 
