Picture of the Day: Parrot

il y a 13 ans, 1 mois - juillet 29, 2013

July 24, Dimapur, Nagaland state, India. A man feeds a parrot chick caught in the woods local hunter and put up for sale

Despite the ban on catching and sale of wild birds, which exists in India from 1990-91, hundreds of people each year are caught parrots and sell them.

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Text by Russian Reporter

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