Nectar is the packing problem, so solve it first
A red lory does not eat seed, and the whole packing list bends around that fact. Lories feed with a brush-tipped tongue on nectar and soft fruit, so pack the nectar your bird already drinks in pre-measured daily portions, with the mixing ratio and water temperature you use written out step by step. Prepared nectar spoils quickly, especially in a warm room, so instruct the sitter to serve small amounts, remove the cup after a few hours, and mix fresh rather than topping up yesterday's remainder. A sitter who has only kept seed-eaters will not guess any of this, and a red lory offered a seed mix instead will go hungry while appearing, to an untrained eye, to have a full dish.
Soft fruit, treats, and what never goes in the cup
Alongside the nectar portions, pack the soft fruits your lory reliably eats, such as papaya, mango, pear, and melon, in quantities matched to the week, with a note on which fruits the sitter may buy fresh midweek to replace what you supplied. Flowers or pollen treats belong in the bag only if they are already part of the bird's routine; a holiday week is the wrong moment for dietary experiments. Write down the household foods that stay off the menu entirely in your care routine, and make clear that the nectar cup is never to be sweetened further with honey or sugar from the sitter's kitchen, however well meant, because the mixture you measured is the diet.
Cups, liner, and the liquid-droppings reality
Red lories produce famously liquid droppings that are squirted well beyond the cage floor, and honest packing prepares the sitter for it. Pack at least two full sets of nectar and water cups so a clean set goes in while the used set soaks, plus a generous stack of cage liner and a washable mat or sheet for the wall and floor behind the cage. Sticky nectar residue builds on bars and perches fast, so include the brush and cage-safe cleaner you use at home. A sitter warned and equipped treats the mess as routine; a sitter surprised by it may start skipping fresh nectar changes to avoid the cleanup, which is exactly the failure your packing should prevent.
Bathing and play for an energetic week
Lories are boisterous, acrobatic birds, and a week in a cage without outlets will be loud for the sitter and miserable for the bird. Pack the shallow bath or spray bottle your red lory uses, since most lories bathe with real enthusiasm and expect the chance often. Add the hanging toys, ropes, and shreddable items it already plays with, and note how much supervised out-of-cage time it normally gets and under what room conditions. Also warn the sitter that a playful lory beak explores everything and can nip when overexcited, so fingers are offered as perches, not poked through bars, and young children admire this bird from a distance.
Written timings the sitter can follow hour by hour
Because nectar care runs on a clock, your accompanying note should read like a small timetable: mix and serve in the morning, remove and refresh at midday or by early afternoon, final fresh cup timing, fruit offered when, bath offered when, and lights and cover at night. Add the same-day warning signs for a lory, refusal of nectar it normally takes eagerly, unusual quietness in a normally noisy bird, fluffed sitting, or laboured breathing, with your avian vet's number beside them. Storing that timetable in KinsLe's Care Pass gives the sitter the red lory's nectar changes, bathing, and bedtime as checkable steps for each of the seven days.