If you are planning on taking your Amazon across into Canada and back into the US, you will need to have a strong, well-developed Medical file and clear documentation of ownership. Have your Green Sweetheart Microchipped would be a great idea. Also, if your Amazon is under five years old, having a Hatch Document will become ever more important!
Thank you so much for this info!
I was actually going to post a question for this on here last week because we are in the process of planning a trip this summer. I haven’t been home since 2005.
I’ve been scouring the web for info and found more broken links than anything. Some info was confusing talking about permits and everything and pet passports. We have hatch certificate and receipts for our Amazon and DNA paperwork with our names and our boy Mummer’s name is on it(he’s only 6 months but already says his name if you ask, which should prove he is who the papers say he is)We have an appointment with avian vet tomorrow morning which had been a 4 month wait to get him in with only 1 avian vet in our area. I was planning on asking the vet about having Mummer microchipped tomorrow. Even if not traveling I’d feel better if he was chipped.
I had hoped that group had been disbanded for its questionable data and the dangerous concept of limiting a healthy source of Parrot to repopulate areas that have lost their Parrots to Weather, Earthquakes, etc, that have caused serious population losses.
The Island Parrots of the Gulf of Mexico and East represent a clear example of what can Happen when a series of Strong Storms cross the same area
I had hoped that group had been disbanded for its questionable data and the dangerous concept of limiting a healthy source of Parrot to repopulate areas that have lost their Parrots to Weather, Earthquakes, etc, that have caused serious population losses.
The Island Parrots of the Gulf of Mexico and East represent a clear example of what can Happen when a series of Strong Storms cross the same area.
Your 100% right about this. After looking at the site linked here, that group does need to be disbanded! I was shocked how many statements were made about different types of animals and their “owners” not only just about birds that was entirely misinformed. Even if their intentions are good as they claim, this is a terribly misinformed, and damaging way to go about it and will do far more harm.
I’ve been witnessing how weather effects parrot populations(parrots native to Mexico) first hand living where wild flocks of parrots had been something you saw daily, in 1996 when my parents first moved us here from Canada and there had been so many wild parrots, I’m talking like thousands that would cover trees around city each night, year round until you saw more feathers than leaves. They were just as common as crows, maybe even more. They were loud so most people in this area viewed them with annoyance. Now we see flocks come through only a few times a year and when they do nowhere near as many and they are significantly smaller and do not stay. Last year I only saw one flock of less than a hundred or so that hung out for a few days on the power lines around our house snacking on corn in corn field behind us then moved on.
It seems like when we started getting far more rain, flash flooding, and hurricanes that are stronger with colder winters that’s when it changed and we don’t see them much anymore. Illegal trapping has always been an issue, but I doubt that it would cause the populations to drop to point we barely see them. It used to be worse before the laws were actually enforced and the social stigma associated with it. From what I gathered that group has a really outdated rational for banning exotic birds and that is scary!
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