Navi Mumbai: An adult Brahmin Kite who somehow got trapped in the fishing net while diving into a wetland in the uran to hunt for food, immediately saved by animal activists along with forest officials.
Speaking with Toi, Anand Madhavi activist from Vanyajeev Nisarg Saurakshan Sanshtha (VNSS), said, “Our group of Volunteers Shubham Madhvi, Manish Madhvi, Piyush Longale and Bunty Shelke, among other things, received specific information that large bird predators struggled to free themselves from the net Nylon.
When I rushed to that place, I was surprised to see that it was a brahmin kite trapped.
” He added that they had to carefully cut the net for one free of these kite claws.
“We also told Panvel Uran-based forestry officers and, who first studied birds, and found it quite fit to be released in the desert,” Madhavi said.
The neighborhood of B N Kumar from the Natconnect Foundation, said, “The fact that there vareats the type of bird, including brahmin kites on this wetland, indicating that this area has a healthy biodiversity that needs to be protected.” The Brahminy Kite is typical and contrastingly colored, with feather chestnuts except for white heads and breasts and black wing tip.
Teenagers are brown, but can be distinguished from both population races and migration from black kites in Asia with their appearance paler, short wings, and round tails.
The Brahminy kite is about the same size as the black kite and has a typical kite flight, with a sloping wing, but the tail is round.