Bird with beak tied with rag rescued in Hyderabad

Sangareddy: Bird lovers had to struggle for two days to rescue an Oriental Darter, after its beak tot entangled in a piece of cloth. The bird lovers, who literally heaved a sigh of relief, set the bird free after a vet examined it. This heartwarming story is reported near the Ameenpur lake in Hyderabad on […]

Sangareddy: Bird lovers had to struggle for two days to rescue an Oriental Darter, after its beak tot entangled in a piece of cloth. The bird lovers, who literally heaved a sigh of relief, set the bird free after a vet examined it. This heartwarming story is reported near the Ameenpur lake in Hyderabad on Tuesday evening.

The effort to save the Oriental Darter began on Sunday, when a seasoned birder T Arun Kumar and his friends sighted the bird at Ameenpur. The birders, who use high-power telephoto lenses, noticed that the bird’s beak got entangled in a red piece of clothe. Obviously, the bird was unable to eat anything and was starving. Arun and his friends made abortive attempts to rescue the bird. It was then they sought the heklp of AWCS volunteers.

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The AWCS volunteers kept a close watch on the movement of birds at Ameenpur lake for a couple of days and then sighted the wanted bird-with-tied-beak on Monday evening. After carefully tracking it for over two hours, the volunteers moved in and caught it with bear hands as the bird rested on a rock on the tank shore. It took sometime for the members to remove the cloth piece which somehow got tightly woven around her beak.

The AWCS member Pradeep Nair told Telangana Today that the bird looked very weak as it was unable to eat anything.

He has appealed to the citizens not to dump anything in water bodies because it would be dangerous for water birds and other species living in the water. He urged people to dispose of waste in a proper way. The birders were all the praise for Pradeep Nair and volunteers of AWCS.

The scientific name of the Oriental Darter is Anhinga Melanogaster and it is rated as a near-threatened species by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

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