Pictured: Swallow Falcon? National second-class protected animals, commonly known as green stripes, grasshopper eagles, green tips and so on. It is smaller than falcons and peregrines. It is a small bird of prey, with a body length of 28 to 35 cm and a weight of 120 to 294 g.

Xinhua News Agency: Xiaoyan, a college student in Xinxiang, Henan Province, dug up 16 birds with her friends in her hometown during the summer vacation and sold some of them. However, these birds are peregrine falcons, which are second-class protected animals in the country. Xiaoyan was recently sentenced to 6 months' imprisonment 10 by huixian city People's Court in Xinxiang, and his friend was also sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment.

It is understood that Xiaoyan, born in 1994, was originally a college student in a vocational college in Zhengzhou. On July 4th, 2065438, Xiaoyan and her friend Xiao Wang hunted 12 Swallow Falcon in a forest in her hometown of huixian city. One escaped and one died during feeding. After that, Xiaoyan released the information about buying and selling falcons through the Internet and sold them to Zhengzhou at the price of one in 800 yuan, two in 280 yuan and one in Huixian.

2065438+On July 27th, 2004, Xiao Yan and Xiao Wang killed two falcons and two falcons in the forest. Subsequently, he was criminally detained by huixian city Forest Public Security Bureau.

Huixian city People's Court found that Xiaoyan and Xiao Wang illegally hunted and killed falcons and Falconidae *** 16, and Xiaoyan bought 1 crested eagle from Zhang in Pingdingshan City (a national second-class protected animal).

The People's Court of huixian city convicted Xiao Yan of the crime of illegally hunting rare and endangered wild animals, sentenced him to fixed-term imprisonment of 10 year and fined him 5,000 yuan; He was convicted of illegally purchasing precious and endangered wild animals, sentenced to one year in prison and fined RMB 5,000. He was sentenced to 10 years and 6 months imprisonment. Xiao Wang was convicted of illegal hunting of precious and endangered wild animals, sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined 5,000 yuan. Other people involved were also sentenced.

After Xiao Yan and Xiao Wang appealed, Xinxiang Intermediate People's Court upheld the original judgment in the second instance. Among them, it was found that Appellants Xiao Yan and Xiao Wang violated the Wildlife Protection Law and illegally hunted and killed Falcon and Falconidae 16, the second-class protected animals of the country. Its behavior has constituted the crime of illegally hunting precious and endangered wild animals, and the circumstances are particularly serious.