Not So Cheep
An informative and disturbing 2006 article about the bird smuggling in Serbia by Djordje Padejski, a colleague of mine on the Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford this year, included the following line:"Singing birds - most often from the family of finches, thrushes and warblers, buntings, sparrows, warblers, tits, and larks - are sold or smuggled dead or alive; per individual bird the price starts at € 5 a…