Climate Action India Project #26352

Avian Rehabilitation

by Jivdaya Charitable Trust

Project Report | Jan 22, 2018
Uttarayan Save Birds Campaign 2018

By Soham Mukherjee | Programme Director

Black kites recovering from anaesthesia

Uttarayan Save Birds Campaign (USBC) is organized every year in Ahmedabad by Jivdaya Charitable Trust during the Kite-flying festival (Uttarayan) as an effort to save the injured birds from certain death and giving them a survival chance.

Even though our official USBC 2018 campaign date was 13^th to 16^th January 2018, we started receiving birds injured by manja used in kite fighting (Uttarayan) from mid-December onward.

We received a total of 1107 birds during the campaign;

137 birds on 13^th Jan,

235 birds on 14^th Jan,

432 birds on 15^th Jan,

303 birds on 16^th Jan.

The total number of injured birds received from the 01^st of Jan to 18^th Jan 2018 however is 2080 birds of 39 species. Sadly, this will continue to go on until end of February.

We were able to save 1752 birds, of which 980 birds were released while 772 birds are still under treatment.

Complex surgical repairs of wounds

Gavage feeding of a black ibis

Ongoing surgeries

Post-operative health monitoring

$Analyzing radiograph for wing fracture surgeries$

Analyzing radiograph for wing fracture surgeries

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