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August 20, 2018
MIAMI (AP) — The men behind a sophisticated Florida bird-smuggling operation that poached more than 400 songbirds are going to prison.
The U.S. Attorney's Office said this week that the men installed bird callers and painted trees and other perches with a sticky adhesive across the Everglades during a four-year period. The men allegedly snared the birds with nets, catching everything from grasshopper sparrows, buntings and hawks to screech owls, cardinals and house finches.
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