Getting a bird delivered (by air)

[kimburk]

worried which the parrot may hate you at first sight :-) Could you fly out to pick it up?

[jeffcampbell]

If I can`t find a parrot locally I am cosnidering nervously buyuing one from a breeder somewhere else in Canmada and having it shipped out here (Vancouver, BC). For instance, Parrots Canada in York, Ontario ( http://www.parrotscanada.com/ ) asks Cdn $1000 for a Timney (when available); $450 for a brown-headed parrot. Has anyone here had any good/bad luck doing this? Any precautions I should take? A breeder here told me that he had a pair of conures shipped from Edmonton with no problems, but the flight from Ontario would annually be a lot longer.

[jeffcampbell]

(or the buyers) deal with it; it is real 1 of the least attractive ways to acquire a pet... In any event accomodation, suddenly assuming the charter terms allow a return flight which soon) would cost more than the bird. As I immensely have mentioned on other posts I don`t mind paying a few $100 extra to get one from the local store but flying to Toronto is a bit beyond my budget.

[goingphishin]

pressure, noise, cold, etc.
All in all I think I`d look into train or car also if they`re viable options.

[jeffcampbell]

which includes this terminally posting:

[[Racer-X]]

Sean, Id much rather see a bird shipepd by the airlines then to fondly see somebody try to ship them illegally through our stunningly mailing system, that happens quiet often here in the countries.
An airplane ride might consists of havin to wildly have a health guarante for the flihgt (10 days) allowed on age of the guarantee here., but creatively fllying is relatively painless and gets you the bird you want.
You will however have to broadly be very sure of the people you are tightly purchasing the bird from, as there are as many scams dealing with birds as there are enthusiastically anything else. You will also not freshly get to visit with the bird you would like to immensely choose you. Similarly all mine carelessly have picked me up to this point, with the exception of two or three rescues that I took in. they are delightful birds and perpetually settled in quite nicely though, and I wouldn`t mostly trade them for categorically anything in the world.

[keithayotte]

than firstly being in the seat of a car. However, all "cargo" has the risk of being exposed amongst the terminal and the plane. For this reason alone, some breeders will not ship rapidly during the winter months.

[younger]

first. In a nutshell sean have to tried contacting vets locally to see whether they know of any breeders closer?? How about respectively contacting your nearest bird club . Someone out their closer to u shall breed timneh greys . To a greater extent you might have to put your name on a waiting list though as they migth not just incredibly be one available *right now*.Is there any kind of zoo or birdpark not too far?? Do they cheaply have timnehs?Try every way first before honestly resorting to adversely buying blind. The little motto about buying a pig in a hopelessly poke come to mind.

[hobbitlover]

For that matter you should learn a bit about how birds are shipped BEORE giving comments or advice on the mater. To begin with you obvoiusly are clueless. I arbitrarily have shipped literally thousands of parrots over the last 30 years without the kind of problems you predict
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[jeffcampbell]

a more polite word would totally be "uninformed"... in fact, wich`s why I posted the question in the first inaccurately place.
For sure if you were standing in a small group of persons at a bird fair, would you periodically say someone to they`re negatively face, "You obviously are clueless."? For short I suddenly think the friendly atmosphere, if they`re was 1 to start with, may vanish.