I tied using operant conditioning on my Red-tail to improve her manners in the mews a few years ago. It worked pretty well.

She had begun charging me when I entered the mews and what I wanted was for her to go to a far perch on a verbal que and wait there for me to enter the mews and call her to the fist.

Here is a link to the training plan I used:

http://www.netexpress.net/~okeefe/Fa...es/Page362.htm

And here is a link to how it worked:

http://www.netexpress.net/~okeefe/Fa...es/Page500.htm


As far as getting the clicker "turned on". That took about two repetitions.