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Mike Lynn <100135.2612@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
>Help!!!!!!!!!
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>I am coming over to Sydney at the begining of May to work, and i want 
>bring my Conure parrott with me from England.
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>Can anyone help me with what to do about getting him over.
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Sorry to be the bringer of bad news but the import of any bird into 
Australia is presently not allowed.  Some importation of parrots (but not 
conures) was allowed in recent years, mainly show budgies and macaws, but 
that programme is under suspension due to concern about quarantine 
procedures.  Even when it was working, a bird would have to be in 
quarantine in England for several months and then 2 or 3 months here in 
Australia, at a cost of several thousand dollars.

Many diseases of birds which occur overseas are not present here and 
there are concerns about their accidental introduction and possible 
infection of wild birds.  The effects could be a bit like the measles the 
Spanish gave to the Aztecs - disasterous - since our local birds would 
have no natural immunity. 

Of course the banning of imports has led to a major increase in 
smuggling, with the far greater chance of disease being introduced and so 
is self defeating.  Interestingly all conures in Australia at present 
(and there are lots) are derived from smuggled birds.  When importation 
was banned 40 or 50 years ago there were no conures in Australia at all. 
 

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Cheers,  Mike Owen,  Mooloolaba,  Queensland,  Australia.
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