Customs police confiscate 18 extremely rare Lear’s Macaw parrots

Customs police have confiscated eighteen exceptionally rare parrots of the Lear’s Macaw breed, a spokesperson said on Monday. In May, police confiscated five rare parrots after they stopped a car near the Moravian town of Břeclav. Subsequent house searches lead to the discovery of another 18 rare parrots with a value of about a million Czech crowns. Lear’s Macaw parrots live in Brazil; there are only about 700 specimens living in the wild left.