The REAL Costa Rica Blog » Pets http://blog.therealcostarica.com The Blog for Travelers, Retirees, Expats and anyone who needs to know the REAL Costa Rica. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:59:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Importation of Birds – Rule Change http://blog.therealcostarica.com/2008/01/18/importation-of-birds-rule-change/ http://blog.therealcostarica.com/2008/01/18/importation-of-birds-rule-change/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:42:31 +0000 Tim http://blog.therealcostarica.com/2008/01/18/importation-of-birds-rule-change/ I know this topic is of interest to many.  For many months, Costa Rica has forbidden the importation of birds, pet or otherwise, because of bird flu fears.

I can now say that this law has been changed and the news is good and bad.

The good news is that you may now once again bring your birds to Costa Rica.

The odd part? You may NEVER export those birds to any other country after they are here! I guess this should be called the bird version of Hotel California… You can check in, but you can never leave…

Therefore, as I have written at least 1,000 times before, if you are not 100% SURE that you will want to live permanently in Costa Rica (currently about 50% leave before first year), I would urge you NOT to bring your pet birds until you have lived here at least 6-9 months and are sure this will be a lifelong move.

For further information, I would suggest contact ARCR . I am sure members can get the hot skinny on this topic.

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