Saturday
May022009
Authorities crack egg smuggling racket
Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 13:25 
Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoos pictured at Edithvale wetlands. Image by Wayne Butterworth
AN INTERNATIONAL crime syndicate based in northern Victoria is making millions of dollars smuggling endangered and exotic bird eggs in and out of the country.
tagged Cacatua galerita - Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Cacatua leadbeateri - Major Mitchell's Cockatoo, Callocephalon fimbriatum - Gang-gang Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus banksii - Red-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus baudinii - Baudin Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus funereus - Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus latirostris - Carnaby's Cockatoo, Trichoglosus haematodus - Rainbow Lorikeets | in Smuggling, Wild bird trade
Cacatua galerita - Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Cacatua leadbeateri - Major Mitchell's Cockatoo, Callocephalon fimbriatum - Gang-gang Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus banksii - Red-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus baudinii - Baudin Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus funereus - Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus latirostris - Carnaby's Cockatoo, Trichoglosus haematodus - Rainbow Lorikeets | in Smuggling, Wild bird trade