Order a bird and have it delivered!

Having birds delivered by a courier without having chosen them yourself is no easy task – it can even be risky!

Many people will tell you “NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS!!!!”, but personally, I’m not quite so categorical 🙂

For the sake of time and money, I’m quite happy for others to choose certain birds (non-mutated) on my behalf, as I’m not in a position to travel more than 1,200 km to collect a bird; and when you know the bird shop, you can try to put your trust in them and order a bird without having seen it.

I’ve tried two bird shops:

Animal Diffusion (France)

Sandra (Belgium)

Both these retailers are reliable and use the same courier service (France Express).

With Animal Diffusion, I’ve never had any problems, and I can assure you that I’ve seen plenty of deliveries from Magnicourt, to be sure 🙂

Ask for Claude or Christine – they’ll be able to advise you!

At Sandra’s, I recently had a delivery of two male long-tailed bullfinches and one female goldfinch, and again, there were no problems at all.

The birds arrived in excellent condition and are still with us :). Ask for Stefan; he’s also very helpful.

There’s no point asking for photos of the birds – you won’t get any; they can’t fulfil that sort of request given the number of birds they have to deliver each week

Don’t forget to ask for the Certificate of Transfer (with ring number) when purchasing a bird from outside France, so it can be registered in the IFAP database.

In any case, the birds were dispatched the day before and arrived before 12.00 the following day.

Of course, everyone has their own experience of home deliveries and bird shops; you only need to browse the forums to realise this.

Below are photos of the birds received and the transport crate.

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