Authorities make disturbing discovery during search at border checkpoint — here's what they found

Authorities make disturbing discovery during search at border checkpoint — here's what they found

Bird smuggling, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), is a threat not only to the lives of individual birds but to the taxonomic class as a whole.  UZ Daily reported on one such instance of falcon trafficking.  What's happening? According to UZ Daily, the Anti-Smuggling Department of the Tashkent Region Customs Directorate, in partnership with members of the State Security Border Troops in Uzbekistan, detained a bird s…