Animals the authorities at The John F. Kennedy airport in New York to sit in their stomach with the large-scale smuggling of songbirds. The boxes, often hidden in, for example, socks or toilet rolls, to be used in singing contests.
reports That The New York Times this week. “People are placing bets on how often the tick will cvrkutala in a minute of time and which bird is the most kwettert,” explains a spokesperson of the customs. The games have been popular in South America, where many of the birds come from are smuggled. Nowadays, the competitions also held in New York.
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A successful wedstrijdvogel can $ 10,000 (around 8800 euro). That makes the smuggling of the animals a lucrative business. The customs has already this year certainly 184 small finches were seized at the airport in New York. Smugglers try the birds in socks and the cardboard tubes from rolls of toilet paper into the country. Sometimes the animals prior to the journey to rest with a bit of rum. the
The authorities found on Saturday the seventy of finches in the luggage of a man from Guyana, a country in South America. He had his living cargo in plastic haarrollers clogged. The seized birds were placed in quarantine. The authorities fear the spread of diseases, such as avian flu.
