Where is the Quaker parakeet legal?

Family Psittacidae-Parrots, Parakeets: Myiopsitta monachus (Monk or Quaker parakeet) (D)

How this rule works: § 671(b) defines (D) detrimental and (W) welfare. § 671.1(a) lists permit types; none covers pet keeping. The only possession permit, Animal Care, requires lawful possession in California before January 1992.

Myiopsitta monachus parakeet, monk (quaker)

How this rule works: Also carries the default rule: introduction is 'prohibited except for those animals on the lists' incorporated in § 4-71-6.5.

Monk or Quaker parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus);

The permit-exempt list confirms the exclusion: it clears parrots, lovebirds, budgerigars, macaws and parakeets except the monk parakeet.

How this rule works: Three lists. Section 4(1) is prohibited species, injurious to native ecosystems. Section 4(2) is inherently dangerous exotic wildlife. Section 7 is the permit-exempt list. Anything on none of the three may be possessed, but a transportation permit is needed to bring it into the state. KRS 65.877, cited in the regulation itself, lets local governments prohibit inherently dangerous wildlife outright.

Cage and Aviary Birds - Means those captive-reared birds, not native to Nebraska, such as parrots, exotic finches, and canaries, which are adapted to live and breed in a cage. For purposes of this regulation, the monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) is not a cage and aviary bird.

A neat piece of drafting to watch for. The importation list ends with All Cage and Aviary Birds, and the definitions section removes the monk parakeet from that category by name, so the one bird excluded from the definition is the one bird that cannot be imported.

How this rule works: Browse to Game and Parks Commission, Title 166 Wildlife Regulations, Chapter 8. Two lists that must not be conflated. § 001.01B lists the native wild birds and mammals that may be held under a Captive Wildlife Permit. § 001.08A is a separate closed list of wildlife that may be imported into the state, and a non-native animal missing from it cannot lawfully be brought in.

a permit shall not be issued for importation or possession of the following live warm-blooded wildlife in Wyoming... (iii) Monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus);

Not merely unpermitted. The regulation says a permit shall not be issued, which closes the route entirely.

How this rule works: Two closed lists do the work. Domestic animals and domesticated animals are both defined by enumeration, with the phrase for the purpose of this regulation, only the following animals are considered domestic. Anything on neither list is wildlife, and Section 13(d) leaves it to a permit that may be authorised upon approval.

Expressly carved out of the unrestricted list: 'Except for: Myiopsitta monachus'.

How this rule works: Species needing no importation, exhibition or possession permit.

Not among the nine exempt birds.

How this rule works: 4.4 is a closed exempt list; 4.5 requires a permit for 'any other' exotic species not exempted.

Psittacidae (Parrots and their allies) except for Myiopsitta monachus (Monk Parakeet), which requires a permit,

How this rule works: One of the most species-specific schemes in the country. § 3.6 defines domestic animals, § 3.7 sets general prohibitions, § 3.9 governs permits, and § 3.17 is the long exempt list of animals that need no exotic animal possession permit. Anything not domestic, not native and not on the § 3.17 list needs a permit.

Exception for certain monk parakeets. No permit is required for monk parakeets (quakers) that have been captive bred and are closed-banded with a seamless band.

Virginia lists Myiopsitta monachus in the subsection A permit table and then writes an exception for the birds people actually buy. A captive bred quaker wearing a seamless closed band needs no permit. A wild caught bird, or one with an open band that could have been fitted later, does. The band is the whole test, so keep the paperwork that came with the bird.

Existing owners: An asterisked animal held before 1 July 1992 could be kept if declared to the department in writing by 1 January 1993. That declaration works as a possession-only permit, renews every five years and cannot be transferred.

How this rule works: Virginia permits by table. Subsection A requires a special permit from the department for every animal listed in it, on the ground that the board has declared the species predatory or undesirable because releasing it would harm Virginia's native fish and wildlife. Subsection B grandfathers asterisked animals held before 1 July 1992 if they were declared in writing by 1 January 1993, renewable every five years and not transferable. Subsection C then carves the monk parakeet back out.