Miami airport customs nab Taiwanese man for bizarre contraband after hearing chirping from bag
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A Taiwanese man traveling from Nicaragua was caught with 29 hatching parrots that were incubating in his bag at the Miami International Airport customs checkpoint.
When asked about the sound coming from his bag, which an officer later described as a "sophisticated" temperature controlled cooler, Wu reached in and pulled out a smaller bag and showed the officer an egg, the complaint said. The officer then looked inside and saw more eggs and a tiny featherless bird that had just hatched. "The biggest threat to parrots globally is a combination of habitat loss and trafficking." "The vast majority of these trafficking cases end in tragedy." Sarah Rumpf-Whitten is a writer on the breaking news team for Fox News Digital. You can reach her on Twitter at @s_rumpfwhitten.
Wu eventually told officers that he had 29 eggs in his luggage, but he did not have the proper documentation to transport the birds, according to the complaint. Court documents state Wu claimed he did not declare the eggs because he was afraid he would have to pay fees for bringing them in his luggage.