All of my six birds are fully flighted and fly indoors a great deal. I think it's excellent exercise for them and they truly seem to enjoy what is a birthright for them. It takes a bit of change on my part to live with them this way but I find it's more than worth the trouble. They are very experienced with flight and I no longer have problems with flying accidents such as running into windows, doors, and mirrors. This was a problem with a few of them when they were first re-learning to fly as adults but just as a toddler learns to walk with a few scrapes along the way, flight was eventually mastered. I live alone, so making sure that doors are closed and that birds are not allowed in the kitchen or the bathroom are easy for me to do. I honestly could not imagine living with a clipped bird at this point in my life.
To learn more about the pros and cons of clipping here are some articles that I've found incredibly helpful as well as very thought provoking. There is also a new Yahoo group, Living With Flight, devoted to those who live indoors with flighted parrots or want to know more about possibly not clipping their birds in the future.
Gay Noeth - What Do We Do With Those Wings?
Mattie Sue Athan - Wings Revisited
Pamela Clark - Feathers, Flight, and Parrot Keeping
Steve Hartman - Flighted Parrots
Wing Clipping Fact and Fiction
Carole Precious - The Need for Exercise in Parrots
Bill Arbon - Is There More to Bird Flight than Meets the Eye?
