For lesson 4 we are going to start target training, so before we do I need everyone participating to get something to use as a target stick. I use a wooden chopstick for all my small to medium birds. If you have a large parrot you would want to use something thicker, but not something that could be confused with a perch. You could use a pen, a very thin dowel made of wood or plastic (again, it should not be the same size as your birds perches, but much thinner).