>time finding a mate for his female, he was thinking of selling her.  I
>will have to check and see if he still has her.  I assume he wants a
>blue male and not a split.
Let me know, and I'll do some checking around here. Bird fair season
starts next weekend.
>New  York States allows the sale of captive raised birds marked with a
>seamless leg band placed on the bird at birth.  Any birds not close
>banded need a proof of possession statement and a permit by the DEC.
How about birds coming from other states? (Ie., blue ringnecks).
>In New York State, the following birds are exempt and may be sold at
>anytime without regulation:  Canary and all varieties, Budgerigars,
>Cockatiels and all mutations, Zebra finch, Bengalese(society)finch,
>Diamond Doves, Java sparrow, Blue masked lovebird, crimson rosella,
>eastern rosella, Pale-headed(blue)rosella, Red rumped parrot and all
>mutations, Bourke's parrot.
Interesting--why did they exempt the rosellas and bourkes? They're
parrots, just like any other hookbill. I can see exempting 'tiels and
budgies, as they are hugely popular and probably too numerous to keep
track of. But the other hookbills listed puzzle me.
>I would like to hear about the laws in other states regarding breeding,
>selling or keeping exotic birds.
Michigan has no "state" laws at all that I'm aware of. Cities can pass
their own laws, regarding how many birds one can own, or whether they
can be kept in outside aviaries, etc. But we have no banding
requirements, or required recordkeeping for state purposes (yet,
anyway--I'm sure someday someone will introduce a bill that will sneak
through ).
--Kathy
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