Originally Posted by
myrgirl
We've had a handful of birds come though here. One was a large bird (I wasn't there so I don't know exactly what breed) that supposedly hopped onto the person's shoulder and hopped back into the cage after. Another was a large goose which was carried through. Otherwise, I believe a visual inspection is all that's needed. That's how we handle the umpteen turtles and hermit crabs that pass through here all summer.
And just to make one thing clear, just because I've never seen it doesn't mean we don't do it. In the six years that I've been screening, I have never come across a monkey. However, TSA devoted an entire section of the SOP to how to screen a monkey. Don't know what that means, but I guess somewhere in all of TSA it became a significant issue.