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I adopted a bald senegal about five years ago. The first thing I can stress is to be patient. The bird has been through a lot of change in just a couple of days. She has probably learned that plucking is a soothing behavior when she is stressed. When I first got Sammy, she would pull a feather on the top of her wings (she only has feathers on the top of her wings, head and tail. the rest is completely bald.) when I would clip her wings or nails or something stressful like that. As time went by, she started to do it less and less. She no longer does it anymore. The hardest part was not to react when she would do it. I had to try and distract he before I expected her to do it so that I didn't reinforce the behavior.
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