I dislike people who take wildlife from their habitat to make profit and caged them. This activity is happening in Smoky Park in RH in the early morning. Some of these guys can't even take care of themselves much less a bird. I ask one of them how he would feel if someone caged him, in like manner. The makachodo cursed at me. BTW, that's Nehru's neighborhood!

Bird whistle competition is big business.  I know a guy in Canada who imported half a full size container of bird cage and retailing them for 75 CAD.  I thought he was nuts but the things selling.

Are these finches what we called Towa Towa ?

Most likely Towa Towa (bastards)  Twa Twa and  Fire Reds ( Grassie).  As  a  youngster  I  used  to  be  a  fanatic about  these  birds including  Ring  Necks Mountain   Canaries,  Plaintain   Canaries  and Mustache.

You forget Browncock and Zip. They have sweet whistles. Zip has a long beak and would whistle prp prp purp. 

Sounds like that bird ate broklaks.

By New York Daily News

Accused songbird smuggler Marlon Hariram leaves Brooklyn Federal Court Wednesday with his mother after she bailed him out. (New York Daily News photo by Jesse Ward)

A BIRD BRAIN accused of smuggling finches up his sleeve into theU.S.was released on bail Wednesday by a Brooklyn judge who ruled he isn’t a flight risk.

That means Marlon Hariram was not likely to flee to Guyana to avoid prosecution for violating the South American state’s treaty banning the illegal export of the songbirds.

Magistrate Judge Viktor Pohorelsky said he doubted Hariram would fly off into the sunset because he faces minimal jail time for the offense.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents busted Hariram, 30, ofNew Jersey, on Monday after catching him on May 20 at Kennedy Airport with nine live finches hidden in the sleeve of his shirt. The birds were stuffed inside cardboard toilet paper rolls and wrapped with netting and packaging tape.

Hariram was released at the time he was caught and went back to his nativeGuyana, but returned to answer a summons in Brooklyn Federal Court stemming from a previous bird smuggling attempt.

There’s a black market for finches in singing contests popular with the Guyanese community in Queens parks, authorities said. A finch with a winning tune can fetch more than $5,000, according to court papers. Sources said not all of the stowaway birds are still alive, but it was unclear if any died during the trip or whether they were euthanized by authorities to prevent the spread of disease.

“There’s no allegation in the complaint that he intended to sell the birds,” Hariram’s lawyer Len Kamdang of the Brooklyn Federal Defenders office told the Daily News. Hariram did not speak as he left the courthouse with his mother, who signed a $50,000 bond for his release
http://www.demerarawaves.com/i...se-bird-brainer.html

Dem NJ People Prapa wicked. Easy money kind ah People.

This man was born in the wrong time.  He should have been around in the 1970s' then he would have been able to export what he want legally and make large sums of money.  That is how them Benns may have got so rich.

NJ people seem to not meet the easy money drug trade as yet.

Them New Jersey people smart.  Animal smugglers only get a few months in jail.  Them drug men get shoot down and plenty years in jail.