Migratory houbara bustard from UAE rescued in coastal Maharashtra 

Via PTI

PUNE: A houbara bustard bred within the United Arab Emirates has been rescued from the coastal Sindhudurg district in Maharashtra, officers mentioned.

The fowl is in excellent well being and it could be launched within the desolate tract house of Rajasthan or Gujarat, the wintry weather habitat of those birds, they mentioned.

Native Vary Wooded area Officer Rajendra Ghunakikar on Saturday mentioned, “A farmer at Mundage village in Devgad tehsil noticed an exotic-looking fowl with a hoop on its leg on Thursday night time and alerted woodland officers. We went there and took it in our custody.”

The fowl is recently saved in a facility at Kankavali within the district and is in fantastic well being, he added.

Sujit Narawade, the assistant director and coordinator on the Bombay Herbal Historical past Society, mentioned some institutes within the UAE breed those birds in captivity and unencumber them in massive numbers as a part of conservation efforts.

“Those birds in most cases migrate to the Thar and Kutch deserts each wintry weather from the Center East. Every now and then a fowl or two stray from the flock and fly to the coastal area of Konkan,” mentioned Narawade, who may be the challenge coordinator of Conservation of Nice Indian Bustard and Lesser Florican.

“The houbara bustard present in Sindhudurg had a hoop and color band which supplied details about its beginning. After we contacted the Nationwide Avian Useful resource Centre in Abu Dhabi, they showed that the fowl was once from a flock launched via them,” he mentioned.

In addition they urged that it must be launched within the desolate tract area of Gujarat or Rajasthan, he added.

Deputy Conservator of Forests S Navakishore Reddy mentioned that they have been in talks with woodland officers within the two states and can quickly come to a decision the place it must be launched.

PUNE: A houbara bustard bred within the United Arab Emirates has been rescued from the coastal Sindhudurg district in Maharashtra, officers mentioned.

The fowl is in excellent well being and it could be launched within the desolate tract house of Rajasthan or Gujarat, the wintry weather habitat of those birds, they mentioned.

Native Vary Wooded area Officer Rajendra Ghunakikar on Saturday mentioned, “A farmer at Mundage village in Devgad tehsil noticed an exotic-looking fowl with a hoop on its leg on Thursday night time and alerted woodland officers. We went there and took it in our custody.”

The fowl is recently saved in a facility at Kankavali within the district and is in fantastic well being, he added.

Sujit Narawade, the assistant director and coordinator on the Bombay Herbal Historical past Society, mentioned some institutes within the UAE breed those birds in captivity and unencumber them in massive numbers as a part of conservation efforts.

“Those birds in most cases migrate to the Thar and Kutch deserts each wintry weather from the Center East. Every now and then a fowl or two stray from the flock and fly to the coastal area of Konkan,” mentioned Narawade, who may be the challenge coordinator of Conservation of Nice Indian Bustard and Lesser Florican.

“The houbara bustard present in Sindhudurg had a hoop and color band which supplied details about its beginning. After we contacted the Nationwide Avian Useful resource Centre in Abu Dhabi, they showed that the fowl was once from a flock launched via them,” he mentioned.

In addition they urged that it must be launched within the desolate tract area of Gujarat or Rajasthan, he added.

Deputy Conservator of Forests S Navakishore Reddy mentioned that they have been in talks with woodland officers within the two states and can quickly come to a decision the place it must be launched.