Parrot eggs hatch in South Africa after suspected Thai smuggler arrested at OR Tambo airport0

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• August 26, 2026

Fifty eggs suspected to be those of endangered parrots were intercepted at South Africa’s main airport in Johannesburg last Thursday – and some of them have now hatched. A 50-year-old Thai national was arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle them in a “homemade incubator bag” carried as hand luggage, according to the Department of Forestry,