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@Michael Reynolds ..
My daughter loved the eclectus, but when I showed a few videos, she felt she needed a slightly more chirpier and active bird..
Just out of curiosity, is it fair to get pets shipped across countries?
@Ararajuba just curious as I read that Latin America and Indonesia have many lori pets..
Depends on how you define "fair", really. Many breeders in the Americas (especially here and in the USA, where distances are so great and it is commonplace to send pet birds by air to other states), have considerable experience of sending birds long-distance, but as Michael says, you may run into all kinds of bureaucratic difficulties at your end during the import process, which you can't expect foreign breeders to be responsible for. The journey is also going to be a long one for the bird - a minimum of 7 hours flying time from the US and somewhat more from here, besides any required connecting flights and time spent handling, dealing with customs and paperwork, etc, at each end. I think that in practice you can expect a miniumum of 12 hours transit time in total, and likely more, which is likely to be a fairly stressful experience for the bird.
It would also be pretty expensive, I would think, once all associated costs are taken into consideration. I don't know the current situation in the US, but the basic purchase price of a hand-raised lory here would be approximately equivalent to £700, (hard to be precise at the moment due to the instability of the financial markets). They can be had for significantly less than that here, it's true (min. local price for a hand-raised rainbow lorikeet is around £250, and of the commoner large species like the chattering around £400) but many breeders will not be willing to take the extra trouble and risks of exporting to Europe, and those who (probably) will tend to be more expensive. Once transit and all related costs are paid for, I'm sure the total expense would be well over £1000, maybe substantially more if you get customs difficulties.
Have you considered conures? They are much more readily available in the UK and tend to have similarly playful, outgoing personalities, as Michael has helped confirm, while also tending to be more physcially affectionate (assuming a tame bird). They can be pretty colourful, and are also easier to feed and care for, while likely to be much more reasonably priced! They tend not to have quite the same talking and mimicing ability as the lories, although this will also depend to a large exent on species and individual birds.
