I just wanted to share a moment with parry which shows her intellect and playfulness.

I have been working with parry on targetting. her treat upon successful targeting is a pumpkin seed (a little smaller than I am comfortable with, but she is GREAT at gently taking it out of my fingers). Recently, I offered her the target and she took it out of my hands. She was gently biting it and playing it with her foot, but I couldn't possibly give her the treat for removing the target out of my hands...

At this point she held the target stick in her foot. I showed her the pumpkin seed and as she reached out for it with her beak, I showed her my other opened hand, which was strategically placed under the foot which held the target stick. I said to her "can we make a trade?". Parry looked at me, my open hand, looked at the target stick, dropped the target stick and I promptly gave her the pumpkin seed. some kind of coincidence? a show of intelligence and understanding of cause-and-effect? hm....