Cecil, those state bureaucrats certainly are a bunch of bitches.
I think that you should be able to get that perch listed as a record somewhere. As dumb as this may sound, would something like the Guiness Book of World Records be an option.
Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:" "She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."