tielfan wrote:
Don't force him to stay close to you if he doesn't want to. Instead, work on making him want to be close to you. You can help improve his attitude by dropping treats into the cage while he's in there (making sure that he sees you do it), and work up to feeding him treats through the bars. Eventually you can work on feeding him treats without bars between you. I don't know what his past history was like, but birds in pet shops are often teased by customer. So he might have learned to dislike hands moving in his direction, and will need to learn that your hands are OK. It will take time to win his trust but that's OK, you have lots of time.
He was housed in a big aviary so hands couldn't get near him and he wasn't from a pet store I got him from the Bird jungle they breed their birds themselves so they have the parents but I don't think Mango's parents are there.I always do drop treats in the cage he doesn't care though lol and if I try feed him treats through the bars he just walks away to a other side of the cage or jumps all the way down to the bottom of the cage.