NATURE CLUB SURAT
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Nature Club Surat: Always For Innocent Birds and Animals KIILER MANJA
Nature Club Surat has been doing
the work of rescuing injured birds all
But what were even more shocking
was the other birds that were rescued. Birds which are usually never noticed,
never seen and yet getting tangled in the threads. Amongst them were an Egret, a
It was a next to impossible task for the volunteers as they had to literally reach the places where no one else can reach. The whole team of volunteers was geared up with primary first aid kits and a channel of distribution was set up in such a way that a bird reaches the rehabilitation centre within minutes of its rescue. This is reflected in the overall mortality rate as the total mortality is of 5 birds, which is lesser than 3% of the total birds rescued. Most of these birds are still at the rehabilitation centers and are recapturing from their injuries. Let’s hope that a day comes soon when all of them can again sing fly……
Nature Club Surat Help lines Injured Bird and Animal Rescue 98254-80908, 99797-30036
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What do you see if you look out
of your metropolitan high rise flat window?? The opposite building, or maybe a
pigeon or two, flying by…NO at least not during this time of the year. Around
this time you
will see tangled threads, torn kites and may be a corpse of a bird killed by the
razor sharp thread of kites hanging on a cable till it actually dries up and
falls down. This is a usual sight during the kite flying festival of Uttrayan.
But a small effort started by Nature Club Surat turned into a full fledged
movement throughout the city during this Uttrayan festival.
throughout
the year but it really becomes hard to handle as the number of birds getting
injured by the razor sharp ‘Surti Manja’ raise immensely during the festival of
Uttrayan. And a bigger team of volunteers is required to respond quickly to all
those injured birds inching close to death. With a team of more than 65
volunteers, Nature Club Surat has been able to rescue a thumping 195 birds in
just three days from within the city. Out of the 195, around 180 were pigeons
with a damaged wing, thanks again to the killer ‘Manja’. 
Parakeet,
Kite, a Sakra, a White Breasted Water hen, Peahen, 2 Fruit Eating Bats, a Grass
Owl and two Barn Owls. A total of four collection centers were set up in
different areas of the city from where the birds were classified and sent to
rehabilitation centers. As pigeons are prone to viral diseases two separate
rehabilitation centers were setup, one for the domestic birds and the other for
wild birds.