Avian Rehabilitation

Uttarayan-Kite flying Festival is celebrated on the 14^th and 15t of January every year in India. Every year during Uttarayan (kite flying festival) Jivdaya Charitable Trust’ organizes a huge camp for saving the birds called ‘USBC (Uttarayan Save The Birds Campaign) where thousands of birds come from all over the city Ahmedabad and its 100 km radius, (migrated and local both) severely injured with the glass coated threads (manja), as an effort to save the injured birds from certain death and giving them a survival chance. Even though our official USBC 2020 campaign date was 13^th to 16^th January 2020, we started receiving birds injured by manja used in kite fighting (Uttarayan) from mid-December.

Received 1397 birds during the campaign;
Birds on 13^th Jan20: 136
Birds on 14^th Jan20: 379
Birds on 15^th Jan20: 571
Birds on 16^th Jan20: 311

Total number of injured birds received from 1st Jan 2020 to 20^th Jan 2020 is 2847 Birds of 39 species. Sadly, this will continue to go on until end of the month of February.  

Thank you for your support and trust!

Sarus Crane is the tallest flying bird of the world. It is also the only resident crane of India. Sarus cranes are large, elegant cranes at 152-156 cms. They are listed as vulnerable as per IUCN red list, with decreasing population trend. The main threat to Sarus crane in India is the habitat loss and degradation of wetlands and conservation for agriculture, changing due to construction of highways, housing colonies, electrocution, and ingestion of pesticides.

This adult sarus crane was rescued from a field where it was found grounded, unable to fly. After initial investigation our vets found it was exhibiting symptoms of secondary poisoning due to pesticides in the farms. It was severely dehydrated when it came to us. It was treated for poisoning along with some supportive care and fluid therapy almost for a month. Now the bird is in our aviary where it will gain the stamina to take proper flight and will be releases to its natural habitat after recovery.

Thank you for joining us in this challenging response. We couldn’t have done this without the support and generosity of our donors. Hoping for such great deed in the future too, which would enable our organization to take care of these speechless animals and release them back to their home.