What a birdbrain!

Federal authorities busted a man at John F. Kennedy International Airport over the weekend for trying to smuggle a bounty of live finches inside hair rollers from Guyana into the US.

The traveler, a Guyanese citizen, had just arrived at the Queens airport on a flight from Georgetown on Saturday when US Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists stopped him, federal authorities said.

During the course of inspection, the specialists discovered 70 finches concealed in orange hair rollers inside a black duffel bag.

The small birds were turned over to the United States Department of Agriculture Veterinary Services.

The traveler who attempted to illegally traffic in the finches was not admitted to the US and was instead returned home, a Customs and Border Protection spokesman said.

“CBP Agriculture Specialists are the first line of defense to prevent the introduction of animal diseases that have the potential to cause significant damage to the Nation’s agricultural economy,” Troy Miller, director of CBP’s New York field office, said in a statement.

A 2015 outbreak of avian influenza, informally known as bird flu, in the US resulted in the culling of 50 million commercial turkeys and chickens as well as $850 million in damages, according to the CBP.