For instance, birds may not be transported without an extremely thorough medical examination because of the great world-wide anxiety concerning the spread of Bird ‘Flu. Veterinarians must therefore have a well-trained eye when it comes to giving examinations providing a clean bill of health to birds which are to be shipped.
G.K. Air Transportation Services works on a regular basis together with zoos, animal parks and refuges which is why G.K. Air knows that animal transport regulations demand complete conformity - regardless of whether the passenger is a pet domestic pigeon or an exotic, tropical bird.
The Great Hornbill is a tropical bird whose characteristic horn or crest sits atop its large beak. It is not protected by endangered species status, however. This impressive-looking animal originally comes from Africa and Asia. The Hornbills in question however were traveling from the Osnabrueck Zoo Society in northwestern Germany to the Jerusalem Zoo in Israel.
This will be the new permanent home for these three large birds which can attain a size of up to one meter, or more than three feet! This time around however, G.K. Air did not have to customize a special transport cage for the birds as usually is the case, as the Zoological Society already had made the necessary arrangements, coordinating everything for the long journey.
As it was, the two males and a female of the Black-and-White Helmed Hornbill subspecies were already comfortably ensconced in their cages for the first leg of the trip from Osnabrueck to Frankfurt Airport in an appropriate G.K. Air vehicle which was outfitted with climate control and air-suspension shock absorbers. Air temperature had to be maintained at a constant 20’C or 68’F prior to and during the Lufthansa flight to Tel Aviv so that the tropical creatures would not be endangered or suffer illness or injury en route.
On departure, G.K. Air’s well-practiced personnel attended to all of the customs formalities so that the trip to Israel proceeded smoothly without distraction. This is typically the case given G.K. Air’s long, 40-year history of animal transport relocating pet animals, zoo specimen or collection animals including birds and reptiles.
