What do you think of training an outdoor safe spot for a flight trained (and most likely outdoor going) parrot? One of the big issues with a parrot that flies out a door or gets lost outside near the house is that it really doesn't know what it's home looks like from outside.
I know indoors my parrots definitely have specific perches that they are very familiar with and go to in case of a panic. What do you think of letting your parrot spend a lot of time on a specific branch, perch, fence, or whatever outside your house (on harness of course) so that it would know of that as a safe place to return to if it were ever to get out?
The reason I ask is because I'm thinking of training my parrots to land on the outside bars of the aviary while wearing a harness when they are not actually in it. This way if for some reason they were to get out somehow or while I was opening it, hopefully they'd just hang out on the outside bars of it.