Posted on 04/27/2021 6:17:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A man was caught at JFK Airport on Monday allegedly trying to smuggle in 35 live finches from Guyana — stuffed inside plastic hair curlers and concealed inside his clothes, authorities said.
Kevin Andre McKenzie is just the latest alleged would-be songbird smuggler busted using the hair-accessory method to bring in the coveted creatures, which are used in high-stakes singing contests popular in Brooklyn and Queens
After McKenzie deplaned from a JetBlue flight originating in Georgetown, Guyana, CBP agents found the small seed-eating birds inside the curlers, which were covered with a mesh cloth, and then concealed inside his jacket and pants, according to the criminal complaint filed in the Eastern District of New York.
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https://guyanatourism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Guyana-Birding-List-.pdf
The finches listed aren’t so special, but some of the tanagers and honeycreepers in the same family, Thraupidae, are spectacular.
Because, they can’t further twist their erroneous interpretation of the book of Revelation to include smuggled song birds?
That guy’s a Bird Brain!
What would the impact of a Gran Torino be? What if it were driven by Clint Eastwood carrying a S&W Model 29?
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