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Smuggler caught in Indonesia with rare birds jammed inside water bottles 7/5/2015
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.
 
Photographs show the birds, with distinctive yellow plumage, peering out of the bottles after being found by officers. The bottoms of the bottles had been cut off to squeeze the birds inside.
 
The head of the criminal investigation unit at Tanjung Perak port, Aldy Sulaiman, said police found the birds stashed inside the man’s luggage.
 
“We found 21 yellow-crested cockatoos and one green parrot,” he said.
 
“All the birds were found inside water bottles, which were packed in a crate.”
 
The birds have since been sent to Indonesia’s natural resources conservation office, which deals with wildlife-trafficking cases.
 
Sulaiman said the man – whose identity was not disclosed in line with normal criminal procedure in Indonesia – had admitted carrying two birds for a friend but claimed to know nothing about the other animals.
 
If found guilty of smuggling, the man, from near Surabaya, could face up to five years in prison.
 
Yellow-crested cockatoos are native to Indonesia and neighboring East Timor and considered critically endangered, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
 
They are different to the larger and more common sulphur-crested cockatoo which is mostly found in Australia and New Guinea.
 
 
PHOTO: Yellow-crested cockatoo inserted in empty water bottles for illegal trade, found by police officials at Port of Tanjung Perak in Surabaya, Indonesia.
CREDIT: Jefta Images/Barcroft Media.
 
 
 
 
 
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