Members of the Environment Conservation Group along with forest department officials noticed the birds kept for sale, at Rs.4,000 for a pair and Rs.2,000 for one, official sources said.
Thirteen Alexandrine Parakeets and three Rose ringed parakeets, kept at the Ukkadam Fish Market, were seized and one person arrested for possessing the birds, which should not be sold or trained in houses under provisions of the Wild Life Protection Act 1972, they said.