The cream-color shama that bird breeder Luong Cong Khanh sold for US$2,360ThanhNien
Monday, November 17, 2008
A southern bird breeder recently sold a unique bird belonging to the black shama species for US$2,360.
Although there are millions of black shamas, the one that Luong Cong Khanh of An Giang Province’s Long Xuyen Town sold was cream-color, with red eyes, pink feet and beak rather than black ones like normal black shamas.
The customer, a Vietnamese-Cambodian, paid at once without bargaining “because the bird was so beautiful,” Khanh said.
Khanh also has a male magpie robin which is cream-color instead of black. He has been offered more than VND42 million ($2,480) for the bird but said he wants to keep it to see how it sings differently from other black shamas.
He had acquired the two special birds six months ago from a bird catcher in An Giang province named H.
H. sold the pair of birds for a measly VND8 million ($472) because he was too poor to take care of them, Khanh said.
Several years ago, Khanh had the chance to attain a one-year-old white magpie robin. The owner had asked for a new Wave motorbike worth more than VND30 million ($1,800), but another buyer beat him to the purchase. The bird was then sold to Cambodia at a price equal to three such motorbikes.
Khanh said that nowadays bird breeders from Cambodia and Taiwan are actively hunting for special birds in Vietnam.
One of his red magpie robin was sold at VND10 million ($590) to a Cambodian, who resold it for ten times the price to a Taiwanese buyer.
“If only I had more land, I would create a habitat for the birds to commingle to produce more unique species,” Khanh said.
Monday, November 17, 2008
A southern bird breeder recently sold a unique bird belonging to the black shama species for US$2,360.
Although there are millions of black shamas, the one that Luong Cong Khanh of An Giang Province’s Long Xuyen Town sold was cream-color, with red eyes, pink feet and beak rather than black ones like normal black shamas.
The customer, a Vietnamese-Cambodian, paid at once without bargaining “because the bird was so beautiful,” Khanh said.
Khanh also has a male magpie robin which is cream-color instead of black. He has been offered more than VND42 million ($2,480) for the bird but said he wants to keep it to see how it sings differently from other black shamas.
He had acquired the two special birds six months ago from a bird catcher in An Giang province named H.
H. sold the pair of birds for a measly VND8 million ($472) because he was too poor to take care of them, Khanh said.
Several years ago, Khanh had the chance to attain a one-year-old white magpie robin. The owner had asked for a new Wave motorbike worth more than VND30 million ($1,800), but another buyer beat him to the purchase. The bird was then sold to Cambodia at a price equal to three such motorbikes.
Khanh said that nowadays bird breeders from Cambodia and Taiwan are actively hunting for special birds in Vietnam.
One of his red magpie robin was sold at VND10 million ($590) to a Cambodian, who resold it for ten times the price to a Taiwanese buyer.
“If only I had more land, I would create a habitat for the birds to commingle to produce more unique species,” Khanh said.
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