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Where is the African grey parrot legal?

Psittacus erithacus. Restricted in 1 of the 3 jurisdictions checked. Every entry quotes the rule it comes from.

Alabama: no restriction found for African grey parrotAlaska: no restriction found for African grey parrotArizona: no restriction found for African grey parrotArkansas: no restriction found for African grey parrotCalifornia: no restriction found for African grey parrotColorado: no restriction found for African grey parrotConnecticut: no restriction found for African grey parrotDelaware: no restriction found for African grey parrotFlorida: no restriction found for African grey parrotGeorgia: no restriction found for African grey parrotHawaii: conditions apply for African grey parrotIdaho: no restriction found for African grey parrotIllinois: no restriction found for African grey parrotIndiana: no restriction found for African grey parrotIowa: no restriction found for African grey parrotKansas: no restriction found for African grey parrotKentucky: no restriction found for African grey parrotLouisiana: no restriction found for African grey parrotMaine: no restriction found for African grey parrotMaryland: no restriction found for African grey parrotMassachusetts: no restriction found for African grey parrotMichigan: no restriction found for African grey parrotMinnesota: no restriction found for African grey parrotMississippi: no restriction found for African grey parrotMissouri: no restriction found for African grey parrotMontana: no restriction found for African grey parrotNebraska: no restriction found for African grey parrotNevada: no restriction found for African grey parrotNew Hampshire: no restriction found for African grey parrotNew Jersey: no restriction found for African grey parrotNew Mexico: no restriction found for African grey parrotNew York: no restriction found for African grey parrotNorth Carolina: no restriction found for African grey parrotNorth Dakota: no restriction found for African grey parrotOhio: no restriction found for African grey parrotOklahoma: no restriction found for African grey parrotOregon: no restriction found for African grey parrotPennsylvania: no restriction found for African grey parrotRhode Island: no restriction found for African grey parrotSouth Carolina: no restriction found for African grey parrotSouth Dakota: no restriction found for African grey parrotTennessee: no restriction found for African grey parrotTexas: no restriction found for African grey parrotUtah: no restriction found for African grey parrotVermont: no restriction found for African grey parrotVirginia: no restriction found for African grey parrotWashington: no restriction found for African grey parrotWest Virginia: no restriction found for African grey parrotWisconsin: no restriction found for African grey parrotWyoming: no restriction found for African grey parrotDistrict of Columbia: no restriction found for African grey parrot

Select a state for the rule behind its colour. Alaska, Hawaii and the District of Columbia are drawn out of position so they can be clicked.

What the colours mean

  • BannedNo legal way to keep one, and no permit to apply for.
  • Permit requiredLegal, but you need a permit or licence before the animal arrives.
  • Conditions apply (1)Legal without a permit only if a stated condition is met, such as a generation, a size or an indoor-only rule.
  • UnclearThe rule genuinely does not resolve for this animal. Ask the agency before relying on it.
  • No restriction foundNothing in the body of law we read restricts this animal here.

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Every restriction on the African grey parrot

1 of the 3 jurisdictions checked restrict this animal in some way. The rest had no rule we could find.

Hawaii

Conditions applyList of Conditionally Approved Animals
Psittacus erithacus

Named by binomial on the conditionally approved list.

How this rule works: The list that matters most for pet keepers and the one almost never quoted. Conditional approval means importation and possession are allowed subject to the conditions the Board of Agriculture sets, unlike the restricted list, which is research and exhibition only.

Hawaii Administrative Rules, List of Conditionally Approved Animals (Hawaii Department of Agriculture official PDF) →

For the full write-up, including the states that get reported wrongly, read the African grey parrot legal guide.

Past the legal question? See the African grey parrot profile.

How to read this

A state with no colour is one where nothing in the law we read restricts that animal. That is not the same as a guarantee: it means no restriction was found in the specific body of law checked for that state, which is recorded alongside each jurisdiction. Cities and counties regularly ban animals their state allows, and several states say so in their own rules.

Hatched grey means the rule genuinely does not resolve. Usually a definition arguably reaches the animal without naming it, and the honest answer is to ask the agency rather than to guess. Those entries are marked unclear on purpose rather than being rounded to a yes or a no.

Every entry links to the regulation it came from. None of this is legal advice, laws change without much notice, and the agency that issues the permit is always the last word. For the federal layer and how state schemes are structured, see the exotic pet legal hub.