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Anonymous
The fact you sound like you have several is only going to make the taming harder; why would they want to bond with a weird, clumsy human that sits and stares at them when they can be with their own species? Put them in seperate cages while you're taming them if you can, or maybe even permanently, since sometimes (not always) tame birds will turn wild again if they can get their social needs from another bird instead of a human.
Then, because birds are bastards, you have to find ways to force contact. It sounds mean, but birds aren't dogs or cats. One method that I know works is to take out all of their food from their cage. If they want to eat, they'll have to eat seed from your hand. This will make them learn that hands are a good thing.
Avoid grabbing them if you can. Sometimes there's nothing you can do (like if you need to stuff them quickly in to a carrier to get them to a vet), but if it's not mandatory, don't do it. With the hand-feeding method, they'll start to perch on your hand if you leave it still long enough. After they're comfortable with their hand, transport them by allowing them to climb up on to your hand.
Basically, put yourself in the place of a very tiny animal that is often preyed upon by big animals. You sure as hell wouldn't like a giant hand coming from above and enveloping you in a fleshy embrace and carting you off to who-knows-where, and you wouldn't like giant eyes sitting there and staring at you either.
And good luck; parakeets are usually NOT a pleasant, friendly pet like people like to say they are.
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