Hunters nabbed over bird-trapping recordings

Police in Ziyang, Sichuan province, have nabbed two criminal suspects who used recordings of bird calls to lure and catch thousands of birds.

On Oct 17, police patrolling the city's Yanjiang district happened upon the bird hunters and confiscated 3,071 birds as well as nets and recording machines.

The hunters had used the machines with recorded bird calls to lure more than 5,000 birds to nets set up in many parts of the district over two weeks. Over 2,000 birds had been sold to Guangdong province, police said.