Article 126AG Rare falcon egg seized from smuggler hatches and is returned to wild in Chile

Rare falcon egg seized from smuggler hatches and is returned to wild in Chile

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AFP in Santiago
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Four albino peregrine eggs were seized from a convicted wildlife trafficker at an airport in Brazil. One survived to be returned to a nest on a Patagonian cliff face

Related: 'Wildlife criminal' goes to jail for smuggling falcon eggs

A rare falcon egg stolen from its nest in Chile to be trafficked to Dubai for tens of thousands of dollars survived and hatched a chick, but three others failed to make it.

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