Submitted Electronically via eRulemaking Portal

I am all for people doing anything they can to help this species, but how do the laws of the ESA protect species that do not naturally grow wild within the USA? It only impacts birds in aviculture, and all it does is create bureaucracy and paperwork for breeding between state lines. If FWS really wanted to help these foreign birds, they would support a breeding registry for owners of these birds to encourage captive breeding & genetic preservation program, but that is more dynamic than the existing permit-based legislation that will mainly only serve to keep populations 'bottlenecked' inside state lines.