Greeting for Dubai, UAE

Hello all! My name is Yagen and I LOVE BIRDS!! haha. Well my love for them started while working at Miami Seaquarium, I took care of 39 exotic birds. Red-Lored Amazon, Yellow-Nape Amazon, Orange-Winged Amazon, Hyacinth Macaw, Green-Winged Macaw, Scarlet Macaw, Blue & Gold Macaw, Ruby Macaw, Catalina Macaw, Hans Macaw, Yellow-Collared Macaw, Goffins Cockatoo, Moluccan Cockatoo, Sulfur Crested and Umbrella Cockatoo! They were all rescues from people smuggling them into the country illegally and were wild caught. I trained them all to be handled and some to even do husbandry work voluntarily. Since then I have LOVED birds. It has been years since I worked at MSQ and have wanted to own a bird. But I have patiently waited and I think the day is almost here. I am Cuban-American, my family and I migrated from Cuba to Miami,FL when I was 7 years old. I am now 25 and I have been living in the Middle East for almost 2 years. I lived for 8 months in Kuwait and I moved to Dubai about 8 months ago. My husband is US Contractor and I am currently a stay at home wife (soon... babies... ???) =) In Kuwait it was extremely illegal to have any pets imported back to the US, but living in UAE it is completely legal, depending the nationally of the bird. There is still a list of countries. I have to be very careful when purchasing this bird, as you may all know he will outlive my husband and I. We want a Macaw, I would love a Scarlet, but here its a bit more difficult to be picky, so We are probably going to get a Blue & Gold. Hopefully within a week I will have some pictures for you guys. If anybody has ever imported a pet from an International country to the US and went thru the whole quarantine and permits, any help would be appreciated!!!! Nice to meet all of you!! Although I consider myself to be a semi-bird expert, I have never been a real mommy of a bird, so I will need all the help I can get!!!

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Yagen.

Welcome to the forum. Wow, you had a very interesting job when you got to work with all those birds! I own 2 macaws, but I am no expert on the subject. I don't have any experience with international shipping either. All my parrots were hatched in my state.

Will look forward to seeing pics of your soon to be baby.

Welcome to the forum. I have imported pet amazons into the US as a US citizen living in Panama. This was many years ago but many of the same rules apply. Do you have family in the US now? If so i would think it might be possible to get exit permits for a CITIES listed bird that was their pet. A loop hole you could use. Miami is about the cheapest place to buy macaws that i know of. We have a bird show near Orlando this Sunday where i've seen babies selling for 500-700 USD. Hybrids a little more.

Welcome to the forum I'm very new to birds and know nothing about importing or anything, sorry! I'm sure you'll get lots of advice here though x

Welcome and congratulations on your soon to be birdie friend! I don't have any experience with international buying/importing but maybe someone here does~ I have a friend in Dubai he loves it there!

welcome to the forum also can't wait to see pictures of your new baby when you get him or her

Welcome to the forum ! I'm from the Middle East so we go they're every winter to visit family ( I'm not crazy enough to go in the summer lol ) Wish we could go to Dubai but have to stick with Pakistan ( I am from Pakistan ) I'm positive that you will find lots of information here at parrot forums !

Welcome to PF, yagen! It will be great to see photos of your soon-to-be new family member and hear all about him/her .

I'm sorry I can't help you concerning international import/export information. I've only been involved with shipping birds within the United States.

Best of luck!

Wow, what an exciting life you've had and God bless! I can't help you regarding your wanting info with customs and really don't know that much about our feathered friends..I've owned an Amazon for 35 years and was very fortunate she was healthy till last August when she passed.

Now the proud owner of an Umbrella Cockatoo 4 mos old we call SHUGA...

I too am new to this site and am lookinge forward to learning and sharing all my surprises too

Welcome and can't wait to read more from your world...as soon as I figure how to ill post a picture..

God bless and Safe journey

Zeee and critters 3 & 1/2

2 Rotties, 1 Chinese crested and a sweet U2.

Thanks so much guys!!! Well I will give you guys the great news!!! After a lot of research and visiting so many bird stores, we found the one with the right documents and he gets so spoiled in that shop. They cried when they knew we were buying him! :-/ but right now he is being delivered to the house in his large cage with all his toys and food! (We have a very small car) he is a 1 year old B&G Macaw! My husband is very excited, I told him he has to get used to ghe biting.... LOL I will post pictures soon!!!

congrats on your new blue and gold macaw. looking forward to pics