A Taiwanese man could face 20 years in jail for attempting to smuggle parrot eggs found hatching in his bag at a Miami airport.
More birds began hatching after the bag was openedSzu Ta Wu was changing flights after arriving from Nicaragua when a Border Protection officer noticed a faint chirping sound coming from his bag.Twenty-nine eggs were also found in a temperature-controlled cooler inside the bag.
The officer office seized the bag and rushed the eggs to an incubator in the airport aviary to try and to save them.Wu was arrested and pleaded guilty to charges of smuggling birds into the US.Wu told investigators a friend paid him to travel from Taiwan to Nicaragua to pick up the eggs.DNA samples of the eggshells showed they were yellow-naped Amazon and red-lored Amazon parrots.
A round-the-clock effort to care for the birds includes five hand-feedings a day in a room filled with large cages. They are almost fully feathered now and the staff has started transitioning them from a special formula to a diet of food pellets and fruit. Dr Reillo said the bird trafficking industry out of Central America was well-established and had been going on for years.
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