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  • Chirping Sounds Lead Airport Officials to Bag Filled With Smuggled Parrot Eggs

    05/28/2023 4:37:26 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 15 replies
    KSBW ^ | May 28, 2023 | Frieda Frisaro
    The 24 bright green baby parrots began chirping and bobbing their heads the second anyone neared the large cages that have been their homes since hatching in March. The Central American natives, seized from a smuggler at Miami International Airport, are being raised by the Rare Species Conservatory Foundation — a round-the-clock effort that includes five hand feedings a day in a room filled with large cages. At just 9 weeks old, these parrots have already survived a harrowing journey after being snatched from their nests in a forest. They are almost fully feathered now and the staff has started...
  • Authorities destroy chickens with exotic Newcastle disease: 100,000 birds killed in California

    12/28/2002 9:38:15 AM PST · by madfly · 23 replies · 183+ views
    The Desert Sun ^ | Dec. 28, 2002 | Dennis A. Britton
    <p>State authorities this week have destroyed more than 100,000 chickens near Riverside after tests confirmed that the highly virulent exotic Newcastle disease has spread from backyard flocks to commercial poultry farms in the area.</p> <p>State and federal agriculture officials imposed a three-county quarantine Nov. 13 after the disease was diagnosed in a backyard flock on Oct. 1.</p>