Despite twice-daily trust violations due to medication for the next few weeks, we're going to give this a shot. Our initial taming and training space is a small WC in this house that's not too large, no windows. I've read the best way to gain trust is to just let the bird find its way. Therefore, I brought a small step stool to sit on and opened the cage door. The goal was for the bird to explore, have some fun, then go back when hungry on his own.
Chiribiri was out in less than a couple minutes, and flew straight up, bonked around the ceiling a bit, then landed on the cabinet. Following some beak grinding and pitter-pattering, he proceeded to relax and preen for about 45 minutes while I made some work calls and responded to emails.
Then he began chirping and flying around. I took some millet out, showed him, and placed it at the cage door. He attempted to fly down, discovered a shelf, but bailed and flew back up.
He was clearly hungry at this point, so I slowly introduced some millet to him, on the branch. Couple minutes later, he dared to eat! A few repeated, shared millet nibbles, and it was clear he was pretty hungry - so much so, that he was following the treat - please note, I did not torment him with this, I did let him take a nibble each time he reached the apex as a reward, however, it's hard to do that while recording!
It's been an hour now, and he wasn't figuring out how to fly down. I presented him with a dowel perch with the millet next to it. He hopped on without second thought, and I took him back in. Immediately jumped to the food dish, and.. we're done for the day
Chiribiri was out in less than a couple minutes, and flew straight up, bonked around the ceiling a bit, then landed on the cabinet. Following some beak grinding and pitter-pattering, he proceeded to relax and preen for about 45 minutes while I made some work calls and responded to emails.

Then he began chirping and flying around. I took some millet out, showed him, and placed it at the cage door. He attempted to fly down, discovered a shelf, but bailed and flew back up.

He was clearly hungry at this point, so I slowly introduced some millet to him, on the branch. Couple minutes later, he dared to eat! A few repeated, shared millet nibbles, and it was clear he was pretty hungry - so much so, that he was following the treat - please note, I did not torment him with this, I did let him take a nibble each time he reached the apex as a reward, however, it's hard to do that while recording!
It's been an hour now, and he wasn't figuring out how to fly down. I presented him with a dowel perch with the millet next to it. He hopped on without second thought, and I took him back in. Immediately jumped to the food dish, and.. we're done for the day