When I say just learning to pose it's usually because they are fairly immature yet and still don't have the complete confidence needed to really stand up and show themselves. That was the silver pumpkin's first time put onto a surface away from other birds and asked to be confident. As you can see, he's still pretty shy. Out in his cage where he's familiar, it's a whole different story, he looks like a completely different bird. I look for a bird that naturally wants to show themselves without prompting, so he should only get better as he gets older.
