Every file that still shows the old address
Moving house with a red lory means hunting down every record that ties her to the old home and correcting it in one sweep. Begin at the avian vet who knows her: request her history, including visit notes, weight records, and any test results, and make sure the file carries your new address and current phone number. If she is banded or microchipped and those details are registered or recorded anywhere, update the contact information attached to them, because an identifier that reaches a house you have left cannot reunite you. Then check the practical paperwork around the house, such as the emergency contact card, the sitter instructions, and any boarding file, each of which tends to keep an old address alive long after the move if nobody deliberately rewrites it.
A new avian vet, chosen before one is needed
Lories are specialized birds, so the new vet search matters more than it would for a hardier species. Register with an avian practice near the new home and send her records ahead, flagging her nectar-based diet clearly in the transfer notes, because feeding is the subject a new vet will ask about first with a lory. Record the new practice's phone number, address, and emergency arrangements in her file and in the house instructions, replacing the old vet's details everywhere they appeared, including on the care sheet a sitter would use.
The nectar-diet records that define her care
A red lory's paperwork is only as good as its feeding section, because her diet is unlike that of seed-eating parrots and any new carer or vet will work directly from it. Write down her current nectar preparation exactly as you make it, how often it is mixed fresh and replaced through the day, and the fruits she takes alongside it, since lory nectar sours quickly and the replacement rhythm is a health matter, not a preference. Note the state of her droppings on this diet as normal for her, because liquid droppings alarm people who expect a seed-eater's, and a vet new to her should see that baseline recorded. Refresh these notes for the new kitchen rather than copying the old sheet, because storage, water, and routine all shift in a move.
Sitter, boarding and emergency papers at the new home
The people-based paperwork needs the same attention as the vet file. Rewrite the emergency plan around the new address: your updated contacts, the new vet, one local person who can get to the house fast, and clear instructions for catching and carrying her in her travel carrier, whose new storage spot should be named on the sheet. Tell any boarder she uses about the move and confirm their copy of her file shows the new address and the current nectar routine, because boarders often work from the version they were first given. Renew written permission for a helper to authorize urgent veterinary care with the new details on it.
Keeping her file findable while everything is in boxes
During a move, the most likely paperwork failure is simple loss, so assemble her essentials into one file that travels in the car rather than in a van: identification details, vet history, the nectar sheet, contacts, and care permissions. Keep a second copy, paper or digital, with a trusted person, so a single misplaced folder cannot orphan her records. Once you are unpacked, do a final pass and delete or cross out every superseded version, because two care sheets with different addresses and routines is worse than one. Holding a red lory's updated records together in KinsLe's Pet Passport keeps the whole file in a single portable packet, so her new vet and carers always work from the post-move version.