Aussie Finch Forum

If poultry are allowed in (even as eggs) then I can't imagine its too much harder to take it to the next step, finches. It's just about getting your ducks in a row, so to speak

Can't people import them if they're beloved pets? Was looking into having my pet crown Victoria's brought over, and a pair of my mini pet pigs.

BluJay wrote:Can't people import them if they're beloved pets? Was looking into having my pet crown Victoria's brought over, and a pair of my mini pet pigs.

From which country?

Red wrote:

BluJay wrote:Can't people import them if they're beloved pets? Was looking into having my pet crown Victoria's brought over, and a pair of my mini pet pigs.

From which country?

North America.

I think the hardest part is to get the species to be approved for import by the federal government, you must show they posses no invasive possibility or other risks.

To be honest, I'd really love an article from AvGen about how they did it, what they have done is great and would love to know how they went about with some things. From there we could apply some of the knowledge into the possibe importation of passerines.

BluJay wrote:

Red wrote:

BluJay wrote:Can't people import them if they're beloved pets? Was looking into having my pet crown Victoria's brought over, and a pair of my mini pet pigs.

From which country?

North America.

I know you can import pet birds from New Zealand but I don't know about America.

crazy cuban wrote:To be honest, I'd really love an article from AvGen about how they did it, what they have done is great and would love to know how they went about with some things. From there we could apply some of the knowledge into the possibe importation of passerines.

Yes they revealed a few things in that Backyard Poultry thread but an article would be great.

Most Domestic fowl are the same species as the Red Jungle Fowl (Gallus gallus I think) which was in the original batch of species applied for in the early 1990s by the zoos. So their import approval process for the species was already done for them years ago.

But say we brought in finches that have already previously imported into Australia, even if they no longer exist here (red shouldered whydah and shamas are 2 that spring to mind) then there must be a document that exists somewhere about them and why we could import them in the first place.

Even if we imported Orange cheeks or aberdeens or purple grenadiers (or anything else with a extremely small genetic diversity) they approved them once, meaning they pass the risk and invasive specie test, they can be imported again. The other argument is, with this list of birds (orange cheeks, purple grennies and the like) is that they are still kept in numbers in Australia, thus we know they don't pose risk to our environment and we can literally see that.

No finches had risk assessments carried out at the time of the early 90s importations & the import protocols didn't exist prior to that time. So no go I'm afraid.
I keep coming back to it, but mutations of native Australian species are the only viable answer for finch importations in the foreseeable future.