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Rare birds in water bottles!

JAKARTA: Indonesian police have arrested a suspected wildlife smuggler after discovering nearly two dozen rare live birds, mostly yellow-crested cockatoos, jammed inside plastic water bottles in his luggage.The 37-year-old man was stopped by police on Monday as he alighted from a passenger ship in Surabaya, a city on the main

By our correspondents
May 07, 2015
JAKARTA: Indonesian police have arrested a suspected wildlife smuggler after discovering nearly two dozen rare live birds, mostly yellow-crested cockatoos, jammed inside plastic water bottles in his luggage.
The 37-year-old man was stopped by police on Monday as he alighted from a passenger ship in Surabaya, a city on the main island of Java.