My next bird!

[JaydeParrot]

My Sennies were beyond untame when I first got them, it took me over a year to tame them and I did personally feel like giving up, both my Sennies are now as tame as Kili, and they allow me to pick them up in my hand, they do recall e.t.c.

A few cheats I've found to help your bird become tame sooner is during taming session: Only do one on one sessions with a bird (being around others can affect it's attention).
Do not make the session too long in the beginning or the bird will just get upset and stressed.
Move the bird into a small unclutered room away from their cage (otherwise the bird is only focused on getting to their cage).
Sit on the floor so you look smaller and less dangerous, leave a food bowl near you with it's fav treat and let it come closer.
If you feel more adventureous, buy a hand held rope perch (these are amazing!) and push it gently towards your bird until it steps up. You can then either walk around rooms with the bird on the rope or attempt to put the bird from the rope to your shoulder (cover your ears with your hair or a hat at first, incase it attempts to bite).

What I found after ages of trial and error is that just taming one bird can be enough (the others will then follow suit).

I found this by concentrating on working one on one with Cain until she was tame enough to climb onto my outstreched arm and up to my shoulder.
I then put my other senegal Hide in the room I'd trained Cain in, he shook and attempted to get as far away from me as possible, I let him and fetched Cain, I put Cain on the floor next to me and Hide stopped shaking, bewildered that Cain would sit so close to me. I put my arm out and Cain stepped up and climbed up to my shoulder. Hide stared, I held my arm out to him and he tentively climbed onto my arm as well before going to my shoulder to sit with his best friend (Cain).

If you're finding taming them all at the same time difficult, just look for the tamest, work one on one with that bird for a while and then show the others what you've learnt, you never know, you could end up with the same 'if they can do it so can I' response that I got from Hide.

[Wolf]

Jaydeparrot ;
Great technique and good advice, thank you for sharing this great tip with the rest of us.

[GMV]

Indian ring necks, i have never had one, but i have met a few, they talk alot, are medium sized, and playful. almost never bite. (don't hold me accountable for this)
are you sure you're ready, a leap from a budgie to a medium sized bird is quite the leap.
anyway, maybe a GCC they are the perfect training birds, as they have the attitude and personality of a large-medium bird.

also, don't give up on your birds, when i first got delight, he was the meanest bird i ever met.
he bit really hard, whenever you got near him. he would not eat, he was deppressed. just work with the budgies. the main way delight and i bonded was trick-training.
also, if it helps. i had taken care of an aggressive and scared budgie for 2 weeks. i don't think budgies understand your emotions or body language as well as other species. when it was first brought in, it was running, screaming, and biting.
you have to just distract its fear with positive things, (like the budgie i had liked seeds) and ALWAYS be calm, and soothing to the bird. within 4 hours, the aggressive budgie was calm on my shoulder.

its usually not this easy, it took delight weeks to warm up to me.

good luck.