The Border Security Forces had seized 75 exotic birds that were smuggled to Bangladesh. The birds were seized from smugglers along the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal.
On last Tuesday BSF seized 54 lorikeets found in Australia and South East Asia birds from near it Tentulberia in the North 24 Parganas district. 6 rare varieties of lorikeets were rescued. They were 11 chattering lorikeets, 13 red and blue lorikeets, 8 black-capped lorikeets, 8 black lorikeets,6 brown lorikeets, and 8 violet-necked lorikeets. 21 cuckatoos were seized from Jhowdanga in the North 24 Parganas Wednesday night.
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The birds were alive, and had been transported to the Alipore Zoological Gardens in Kolkata.
The borders of the North 24 Parganas where there is a high density of population on the either side is most vulnerable to cross-border smuggling.
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