UK Compulsory & Voluntary Bird Registration

caza66

caza66

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Somebody has posted on FB about registering all birds except cage birds before a deadline of October 2024.

but when I’ve searched on the gov website i can only find that it is compulsory for keepers of 50 or more outdoor birds but voluntary for under 49.

Has anybody heard/seen anything else?
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They were going to have exemptions on parrot species but decided to include them in the end but it's only if they are outside not indoor
 
So if you have more than 49 outdoor kept birds then you are obliged to register. Under that you aren't.

This was the outcome of the consultation process if you fancy a boring read
www.gov.uk

Summary of responses and government response

www.gov.uk www.gov.uk

They were thinking at one point every single bird had to be registered and mandatory update you would have to do yearly. Thankfully they decided it was about impossible to keep track
 
Form IRA-81 the compulsory for 50 or more of you add a species, sell a bird breed more you have to update monthly. Yearly update mandatory and what you keep them for plus numbers of each species. Stupid really if a chicken or duck drops dead and you replace it the same week or a brood hatched they are never going to know as it doesn't ask for birds to be individually listed so you could have 40,000 and they wouldn't know if any got diseases unless you notified them

Form IRA-82 if you have 49 or less and want to be included and same updating requirements once you registered can't unregister it would seem once you have.

Let's just say I won't be registered a because I have less than 49 and I keep an eye on the notifiables already and don't even cross into any "disease control zones" with my car to ensure I don't bring anything home.

Going to move this all to a new thread so it's not lost.
 
:noidea:Going to be a whole new nightmare for those breeding and releasing for shooting purposes

Mind you pigeon racing peeps are going to be scratching their heads as it seems they need it for racing from EU but they have been always allowed to exercise their birds in a disease control zone as they don't go far but need to fly. :thinking: if you have 49 racers and as sometimes does happen a stray racer enters your loft then what as you then are over the limit as it doesn't stipulate they have to be owned by you just that your a carer of that number.

In the other hand are they going to visit every private aviary if y haven't registered to have a head count? The mind boggles as to how they are going to try and police it.

If I owned 54 and cared for 54 but had them split over two properties one not owned but rented perhaps by me how are they going to police that scenario?

Good job 6 would be exempt as indoor and only have little dude flock outdoors and my numbers come to less than 25 :thumbsup: couldn't cope with more anyways
 
Had they gone with register one bird can you imagine the nightmare created for any elderly person say in their 80's or 90's with a pet budgie going through the red tape :BangHead:

I remember going through the big stink of registering a horse with a passport the hoo-har and you will be fined blah blah blah and that is so lax its another pigs ear of pointless paperwork. False papers all over the place passports not applied for and the law certainly not enforced.

Yes your clarity on reading about it was totally correct you might want to update the facebook group with links to the law they wish to bring in so everybody is clearer and not panicking also not registering if they don't need to. Polly might want a cracker but doesn't need to be registered unless she has 49 friends out there and one carer.... Hmmm there's a thought why would 50 budgies in an aviary be protecting poultry if registered? They don't free roam .... unless its just going to make it easier for them to test or cull birds in a disease area by knowing where they are.... :yikes: Won't let Joe Public purchase the vaccine but want to know about our birds ..... horses, then dogs, then cats and now birds ...... hide your goldfish peeps!
 
You can voluntarily register if you have less than 49 but have to register if you have 49 or more
 
@caza66 you are correct the law coming into force has been changed again at the beginning of September!
Gives us two weeks to register.
So if you own ANY amount of birds and they are in an aviary, or go out for walks on their harness or free fly they have to be registered by 1st October. If they are house birds and never go out unless they are going to see a vet they do not need to be registered.
just had an argument with them about their stupid policy said ok will register the cockatiels but not my others as they don't go out. Errr we want to know all of them NOPE you don't get that information they don't go out. Oh right.... fair enough can we take your details ..... nope whistle dixie!

Aviary birds all have to be registered even if its just one budgie. Did say if the birds are sealed in an aviary the temp gets to 28 degrees and their is no air flow they are dead anyway so not an issue but I may sue you for cruelty to animals .... He went very quiet :watchout:

So every duck, chicken, goose, cockatiel, budgie, bird of prey etc that has any access to fresh air basically has to be registered.... If they think I am registering my indoor birds when I take them into my own garden in their travel cages whilst main cages are scrubbed out they can also whistle dixie... flipping numpties
 
Thanks for the clarification @DizzyBlue. I guess this is all to do with avian flu (or big brother wanting to watch us all).

Oh well, better get filling forms out.

Thanks again for making the phone call
 
Apparently any free flyers, harness birds or going out in their back packs etc will need to be registered as well
Less than 49 birds this page on the internet

www.gov.uk

Register as a keeper of less than 50 poultry or other captive birds

Register if you keep up to 49 birds, including any kept as pets.
www.gov.uk www.gov.uk

This PDF document


50 or more then its this PDF

and this web page
www.gov.uk

Poultry and other captive birds: registration rules and forms

How and when you must register as a bird keeper (including for any birds you keep as pets).
www.gov.uk www.gov.uk


Now I just have to think of everybody I can who either takes their birds into an aviary to exercise, free fly, backpack or harness walk .....

@lockey @MJGB - MikeJenGaryBeckyBoo @Dusty @Yellowchickenparrot @Stinkie @Roz (Don't think it applies to you Roz but please spread the word) @Oli Fry @Jeanette
 
They're all idiots in my honest opinion its a money making scheme as well as big brother.
Lets face it they just brought in law about cats being microchipped earlier this year, dogs was a couple of years ago and horses a few years before that. Still get horses and dogs not registered and they do feck all about it
Still people sell Cites birds without paperwork and they do feck all about that unless we the minions kick up a fuss about it taking place
 
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