KANPUR: Alert villagers of Jainpur Naagar in Etawah district helped rescue a sub-adult sarus which had sustained wounds on one of its legs on Wednesday.
The good samaritans travelled all the way from their Jainpur Naagar village to the district forest department to hand over the bird to the officials concerned for the first aid.
The one-year-old juvenile had received multiple fractures on its left leg. The bird was found making loud calls and lying in a field partially submerged in water in Jainpur Naagar on Wednesday morning.
"One Kallu Yadav, a local, found a one-year-old saras chick who was injured and unable to fly. With the help of villagers, Yadav caught hold of the bird and rushed it to the Etawah forest department," said a senior forest official while talking to TOI.
"The bird was writhing in pain. It was unable to fly so after rescuing it, I gave it some feed and water," said Kallu.
Kallu then called up the forest department people who asked him to reach the district forest department campus immediately.
Jaim Ahmed, sub-divisional officer, Etawah forest department, said, "The bird, which has almost attained one year of age, is under close observation and a raw plaster type of bandage has been done on its left foot. It will be released as soon as it recovers. However, initial investigations indicate that it might have sustained fractures after getting entangled in a steel wire used for fencing in some nearby industrial unit and it got stuck probably while landing in search of food or water," he said. Dr A K Srivastava, senior veterinary officer, is treating the bird.
"This was the second incident in which a sarus chick was found injured in the region. These are the cases which have been coming to light and reported to us by villagers following awareness campaigns to conserve the state bird sarus," said Sudarshan Singh, district forest official.
"As soon as a sarus becomes adult, it leaves its territory along with other elders in search of food and it is during this period that most of the casualties take place," said Dr Rajiv Chauhan, secretary, Society for Conservation of Nature.
About a fortnight ago, one sarus crane had died after it hit high-tension wires. The incident had taken place at Vicharpura village. The sarus crane, a bird specie residing in wetlands, is categorised as vulnerable on the 'IUCN red list'.
"The sarus crane falls under the schedule 1 of the Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972," Dr Chauhan said,
"To protect these birds from electrocution, people must use coated wires particularly in Etawah and Mainpuri districts where nearly 3,000 sarus cranes are nesting," said Dr Chauhan.
The good samaritans travelled all the way from their Jainpur Naagar village to the district forest department to hand over the bird to the officials concerned for the first aid.
The one-year-old juvenile had received multiple fractures on its left leg. The bird was found making loud calls and lying in a field partially submerged in water in Jainpur Naagar on Wednesday morning.
"One Kallu Yadav, a local, found a one-year-old saras chick who was injured and unable to fly. With the help of villagers, Yadav caught hold of the bird and rushed it to the Etawah forest department," said a senior forest official while talking to TOI.
"The bird was writhing in pain. It was unable to fly so after rescuing it, I gave it some feed and water," said Kallu.
Kallu then called up the forest department people who asked him to reach the district forest department campus immediately.
Jaim Ahmed, sub-divisional officer, Etawah forest department, said, "The bird, which has almost attained one year of age, is under close observation and a raw plaster type of bandage has been done on its left foot. It will be released as soon as it recovers. However, initial investigations indicate that it might have sustained fractures after getting entangled in a steel wire used for fencing in some nearby industrial unit and it got stuck probably while landing in search of food or water," he said. Dr A K Srivastava, senior veterinary officer, is treating the bird.
"This was the second incident in which a sarus chick was found injured in the region. These are the cases which have been coming to light and reported to us by villagers following awareness campaigns to conserve the state bird sarus," said Sudarshan Singh, district forest official.
"As soon as a sarus becomes adult, it leaves its territory along with other elders in search of food and it is during this period that most of the casualties take place," said Dr Rajiv Chauhan, secretary, Society for Conservation of Nature.
About a fortnight ago, one sarus crane had died after it hit high-tension wires. The incident had taken place at Vicharpura village. The sarus crane, a bird specie residing in wetlands, is categorised as vulnerable on the 'IUCN red list'.
"The sarus crane falls under the schedule 1 of the Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972," Dr Chauhan said,
"To protect these birds from electrocution, people must use coated wires particularly in Etawah and Mainpuri districts where nearly 3,000 sarus cranes are nesting," said Dr Chauhan.
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