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April 22, 2021 at 1:40 pm PDTByBob D’Angelo, Cox Media Group National Content Desk

NEW YORK — For the second time in several weeks, an airport traveler attempted to hatch a bird-brained scheme, federal authorities said.

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Officials found 40 live finches hidden inside hair rollers in a man’s baggage at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in anews releaseTuesday.https://37e3c5012a6976ae39adfbf06aaf3dda.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html

The discovery of the birds by CBP agriculture specialists occurred Saturday in the luggage of a 36-year-man who was flying into the United States from Guyana, the agency said. Nearly 30 finches were found in a man’s luggage at the New York airport on March 28,WABCreported.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfX0%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1385021846668693509&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kiro7.com%2Fnews%2Ftrending%2F40-finches-found-hair-rollers-inside-mans-luggage-nyc-airport%2FWQ6VFVLJKVENFG27GDTRM65PJY%2F&sessionId=1726b0ea64a1db97c688f1ecfd4985317252f3fa&siteScreenName=KIRO7Seattle&theme=light&widgetsVersion=ff2e7cf%3A1618526400629&width=550px

In Saturday’s incident, the man was not criminally charged but was fined a $300 civil penalty and sent on a plane back to Guyana the…