Jodhpur: dozens of crane migration demoiselle, known as ‘Kurjan’, found ill or die in Kaparda Village near Jodhpur on Saturday.
The Ministry of Forestry sent a team to a place to ensure the causes of migratory birds and deaths.
According to a wildlife activist from the village, Bhajan Lal Nain, a large part of the bird came to the village and could be seen walking near the village pond for the past few days.
“On Saturday, I watched a few dead birds near the pool.
When I checked it further, I found many of them to die and some of them were very sick so they couldn’t stand on their feet,” he said, adding that there was there Dozens of birds like that are spread in a large area.
Nain shared information with several people and some of them notified forest officials about the incident.
A team of the Ministry of Forestry and veterinarians reaches a place to take stock situations and start the treatment of sick birds.
“Prima facie, it seems they might have consumed poisonous grains, which might be mixed with some pesticides or something,” said one of them.
But they said that the exact cause of birds that fall ill can be ascertained only after a detailed medical examination of the dead viscera, which they collected and arranged to send to the laboratory for inspection.
It can be noted that the ‘Kurjan’ birds flushed thousands of kilometers, to the Marwar section with Khinchan in Phalodi subdivision into their main experience.
But lately, they look in many other places with ponds.
About 2 years walked, hundreds of birds were found dead in Khinchan and their deaths had been associated with poison consumption or pesticide grains, after examining their viscera.
After that, the steps have been taken to ensure that grains given to them for free consumption from pesticides or other materials used to preserve grains.
Wildlife biologists from Govind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi Sumit Dookia said that this could be a result of the consumption of seeds treated with some chemicals or drugs, which are used by farmers before sowing in the fields.