KB> It is not PARROTS, that has "gerochen" Deutschland  - but
 KB> Deutschland has "gerochen" PARROTS; because "gerochen" means
 KB> "smelt", (and "reached" is "erreicht"). So much to that!
 KB> Let me say thanks to YOU ALL for your interesting mails in this
 KB> PARROTS!
 KB> Besides: My BBS "Basis" is a typical Science Fiction Mailbox
 KB> (Startrek, Perry Rhodan, ...), and it is just a wonder, that brave
 KB> Sysop Heiko has put PARROTS between SF-message-areas! Hope he
 KB> lets it there also in future...
 KB> Well, in Europe there are about 5 German avian magazines, some
 KB> Dutch and Danish magazines, TWO ENGLISH! ("Cage and Aviary Birds",
 KB> London, and "Foreign Birds", Benson, GB)
 KB> We here in Germany have a lot of bird keepers, but I think, they
 KB> all have got no modems. I am the only one till now. 
 KB> That'll change soon. A 14400 fax-modem incl. software is now
 KB> available for DM 159.- (= $ 86.)
 KB> You asked about laws about parrots.
 KB> Oh, there are a lot of laws about PET birds. Even the changing of
 KB> the home (location) of a bird has to be written to the proper
 KB> officials!  Always with a paper called CITES.
 KB> Parrots must be banded, of course. Some were chip-implanted.
 KB> Even the smallest hobby breeding of parakeets needs certification.
 KB> The asked procedure to reach this is as expensive as half a
 KB> driver's licence. Endangered birds, as parrots usually are (except
 KB> budgies and nymphicus hollandicus and some others), endangered
 KB> birds are forbidden to sell for money! (Except if you have an
 KB> "exception permission").
 KB> In advertisements Germans do not "verkaufen" (sell) a bird, they
 KB> "geben ab" (give away) the parrot without saying the expected
 KB> price. (Although a price is paid at last...) All of that reason.
 KB> e.g. Amazon youngs, (Bluefronted is the most bred amazon species
 KB> here), cost about (converted) $ 1000, if they are tame.
 KB> In PET shops, you see nearly no parrot; twenty years ago, they
 KB> were full of them and much cheaper.
 KB> - Kathy, that's it for today! Have a good time with yours.
 KB> BTW: Do you know anyone in Grand Rapids, Mich.? I have got
 KB> wonderful old colored postcards of that town to swap. Relatives
 KB> emigrated there at the beginning of this century.
klaus I usually will not quote an entire message but yours is one of the most 
interesting I have read and hope others will have a chance of reading it 
again. Thank you for sharing the ways of your country. It is very 
interesting. I have an african Grey 15 months old called Meggie. She is a 
very sweet baby. She talks a little saying what sounds good to her. The 
latest is calling my 2 year old grandson Robert. They share their breakfast 
in the morning. I also have a male tiel that was an abused bird. 
Please tell us more about birds in your country. Thank you for posting.
Diane 
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