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Around 400 birds injured since 10th Jan

Treatment of injured animals and birds has been started from 10th under Karuna Abhiyan. A total of 394 birds have been injured since the 10th, including a large number of pigeons.
A wing of a foreign Gray Leg Goose was cut off in Savli on the day of Uttarayan due to the kite string, Range Forest Officer Nidhi Dave said that a rare horned owl (Indian Eagle Owl) was also injured and brought to Vadodara for treatment.

Currently, the Animal Husbandry and Forest Department have jointly arranged treatment of injured animals at Bhutdizampa Veterinary Hospital, Veterinary Hospital near Pandya Bridge, and Forest Department’s Sayajibagh Nursery. The shelter has also been arranged at the nursery till the injured birds are treated.

Currently, under Bird Flu precautions there are about 65 PPEs arranged for the protection of those engaged in the treatment of the birds. Informing that arrangements like kits and hand gloves and sanitizer have been made, Deputy Director of Animal Husbandry Dr. Prakash Darji said that 174 injured birds and 61 sick animals were treated on the day of Uttarayan. Cows fell sick after eating ghughri.

Injured birds include pigeons, parrots, bats, crows, black eye biz, gray leg geese, painted storks, lapwing, cuckoos, ducks, partridges, eagles. The treatment centers will continue till the 20th and the injured birds will be kept under shelter at the nursery till they recover completely.

Tanisha Choudhary

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