Transfer listings

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Transfer listings are a board among breeders: you publish a bird you have available and another breeder can express interest. They do not replace the transfer between accounts — they are the step before, the one where you find each other.

Mis Plumas is not a party to the transaction. It takes no part in payment or delivery, charges no commission and makes no profit from listings: it is a community service.

Before publishing

Publishing requires a cloud account and a completed advertiser profile. You will find it under Transfers and listings → My advertiser profile.

You need:

• Public aviary name. This is what others will see; it does not have to be your real name.
• Province or region and country.
• A way to get in touch. The email of your account will do (no need to type it: it is the same one you sign in with) or a phone number, and you can give both. Neither is part of the catalogue: they are provided only when another breeder taps Contact on one of your listings.
• Zoological nucleus or breeder registration (optional): if you have a zoological nucleus —or your country's equivalent breeder registration—, enter it with its number and it will appear on your listings. It is recommended, but not needed to publish.
• Accept the terms. The app shows you the full text and you can only accept from within it. If the terms change, you will have to accept them again before publishing.

Whenever something is missing, the app tells you exactly what it is instead of leaving you guessing — and the publishing wizard itself takes you there to complete it.

Finally, switch on “Show my listings to other breeders”. No PIN, nothing else: being signed in is enough. If that is the only thing missing, the wizard turns it on for you with a single button.

Publishing a bird: the wizard

Publishing is a step-by-step wizard. You enter from the bird's record, under Public listing (visible for any bird in your aviary), or from the board itself with “List one of my birds”.

1. What do you want to do? — Rehome it for a fee, for free or without a price (the listing says nothing about the amount: anyone interested writes to you and you discuss it). If the bird has a price on its record, “for a fee” comes pre-selected; if it has none, the suggestion is “without a price”.
2. Your listing — The text arrives already written from the record (“Canary (2026). Bred by me…”): change it or leave it as it is. The rehoming fee is the same as the price on the bird's record — changing it here changes it there too. Under “More options” you decide whether the fee is shown, whether it is negotiable and whether the full ring is published (by default, only the year).
3. Your advertiser details — This step only appears if something is missing from your profile; if it is complete, you never see it.
4. This is how your listing will look — You see your listing exactly as others will, and you publish it with Publish listing.

There is no need to mark the bird “on loan” first: the wizard does it for you when publishing, and tells you so. And the other way round: if you mark a bird “on loan” from its record, the app asks whether you also want to list it — you can say “Not now” and it stays a private transfer, just for your own records.

What gets published about the bird is a closed set of fields: species, sex, year, visible mutations and the photo if you include one. Health, cage and your internal relationships never travel.

Pairs and lots

Since 5.9.5 the wizard first asks what you are listing: this bird, a pair or a lot (up to 12 birds of the same species). If you choose a pair, the app suggests your active breeding pair; in a lot you pick the birds from your aviary one by one and can reorder them (the first one names the listing). To pick them, the sheet has a search box and year chips, with your active pair first.

• One price for the whole. The amount of a pair or a lot belongs to the listing, not to the records: it doesn't change any bird's price.
• Photos of every bird. The gallery gathers the photos from all members' records; you tick the ones to publish (up to 6, the first is the cover) and can add a new photo from the wizard, saved to the main bird's record. A photo still uploading shows up in the listing on its own as soon as it reaches the cloud.
• One bird, one listing. None of the birds can be in another active listing; if one is, the app points it out.
• Automatic withdrawal. If one of the birds is no longer on offer (you mark it transferred, deceased or simply back in the aviary), the whole listing is withdrawn by itself and the record tells you why.
• Editing from another device. A published group can be edited from any of your devices: if the listing details haven't arrived yet, the wizard waits for them before letting you publish; it never rebuilds the pair from a single bird.

Versions before 5.9.5 don't show pair or lot listings (yours or anyone's): update the app to see and publish them.

Instant publishing, and private transfers

Publishing publishes: your listing appears on the board instantly, with no waiting and no prior approval. If you later change the text or the fee, the published listing updates by itself.

The bird's record and the “On loan” tab always tell you which of your transfers are published and which are not, and from there you publish or withdraw whenever you like.

When someone is interested

Anyone seeing your listing taps “Contact” and chooses how: to call you, to message you on WhatsApp or to send you an email — they are only offered whatever you have left visible. With email, their own app opens with the message already started (recipient, subject and the listing reference); with the phone, the call or the chat, with the text already there.

The email lands straight in your inbox, like any other: Mis Plumas never reads, stores or forwards it. From there you carry on by email, and if you agree on the transfer you do it with the transfer between accounts.

Neither your address nor your phone number is shown on the board: they are provided only at the moment of getting in touch, and with a cap on requests per person so that nobody can harvest them in bulk. You see those of whoever writes to you when their message arrives.

You decide what gets published. On your profile, every detail —email, phone, region and zoological nucleus— has its own “shared on my listings” switch, and you have them both on the breeder profile and on the advertiser profile. The only things that cannot be hidden are the public name and the country: without them there is no listing to show. Mind the region: if you hide it, your listings stop appearing in distance searches.

If something is not right

Every listing has “Report listing”, with concrete reasons: illegal content, offensive content, possible scam, wrong species or other. You can also block a breeder: you will stop seeing their listings.

Moderation acts after publication: we may withdraw or suspend a listing or an account that breaches the terms. Serious cases — inappropriate listings, using the service for something other than it appears, or bad faith — may lead to immediate and permanent removal. If you believe there has been a mistake, write to us at misplumas.es/contacto or contacto@misplumas.es and we will review it.

Species that cannot be listed

The app does not allow publishing species that are not admitted, species that are invasive in your country, or protected birds without the required paperwork. The check is done by scientific name, so the language of the listing makes no difference: the monk parakeet cannot be listed from Spain whether you call it that, “periquito-monge” or “Mönchssittich”.

You are responsible for complying with the rules of your territory, beyond whatever the app can check.

Languages

Each listing's species is shown in the language of whoever is looking, with the scientific name underneath in small print: it is the only thing that means the same to two breeders from different countries. The search finds by the name in your language, by the Spanish one and by the scientific name.

Finding listings: search and filters

The magnifier in the top bar, next to your advertiser profile, opens the board search: type what you're after (species, aviary, area) and choose the scope: offers and requests, offers only or requests only. With “only…” the app takes you to that tab; on both you see a chip with the active search and an X to clear it.

The catalogue opens filtered by your country (the one on your breeder profile), which is what you almost always want to see. The filters button lets you narrow down by:

• Country, region, province and town — cascading, and only the ones that actually have listings are offered, not a fixed list.
• Species, type (rehoming with a fee, free or without a price), sex and format (single bird, pair or lot).
• Only listings with a photo, and Near me (25 to 200 km).

Filters are remembered for next time, and above the list you always see which ones are on, with a button to clear them.

If the filters leave the list empty while there are listings outside them, the app says so and offers to clear them. The catalogue is never hidden in silence.

Sharing a listing

Every listing has a Share button. The message includes the bird's essential details so it makes sense without opening anything, plus a misplumas.es/cesiones/… link that is clickable in WhatsApp and in any other app. For anyone who has Mis Plumas, it opens that listing; for anyone who does not, it explains what it is and where to download it, or lets them open it in the web app. Listings still live only inside the app (including its web version): that page shows neither the bird nor your details.

Breeder profile and listing activity

Tap the aviary name or logo to open the breeder's public profile. It brings together their area and credential when they chose to show them, the number of active listings, and their published offers and wants. From the header you can Contact them or go straight to See their listings when those actions are available.

Cards also show views and shares when their value is above zero. Each account counts once in each total: opening the same listing again does not inflate its views, and the owner does not add a view to their own listing. An owner's share does count because it measures the listing's real distribution.

“Wanted” listings

Besides offering birds, you can publish what you are looking for. Listings have two tabs, Offered and Wanted, deliberately separate: “wanted: goldfinch” among the goldfinches on offer helps nobody.

A request can ask for a male, a female, either, a pair or a lot (“Looking for a pair of canaries…”). Pair and lot requests are only shown by apps from 5.9.5 onwards.

Posting a want asks for the same as offering a bird —a complete advertiser profile— and respects the same bans: a species that cannot be listed cannot be requested either. They expire after 90 days so the board does not fill up with stale requests, and posting the same species and sex again updates the one you had instead of creating another.

Your town and distance search

On your advertiser profile you can pick your town from a list of nearly 70,000 towns worldwide. Once you do, your listings start appearing in other breeders' distance searches.

What is published is the position of the town, never of your home, and only if you pick one. You can remove it whenever you like: your listings stay published, they simply stop appearing when someone searches “within 50 km”.

When searching, the Near me filter offers 25, 50, 100 or 200 km. Your location is taken at that moment, stored nowhere and never leaving your phone: if you are travelling, you see what is near you now, not what was near you last time. Listings whose author gave no town cannot appear in this filter, and the app tells you how many they are so you know they are there.

See also Cloud transfers between aviaries, Your birds and the Privacy policy.