Avian Rehabilitation

A visiting trainee wildlife veterinarian from UK, Ashley Clayton, who also works with Wildlife Vets International wrote a beautiful piece on her blog covering our avian rehab work titled "Avian A&E during the Kite festival – Ahmedabad, India".

She writes:

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I travelled to India this month with charity Wildlife Vets International, to assist with the Avian A&E at Jivdaya Charitable Trust, Ahmedabad.

I spent a total of 7 full days on the project, and was fortunate enough to work as part of a great team of people, and help treat a large number of injured birds. The species treated included an Egyptian vulture, a Flamingo, several Pea Fowl, lots of Ibis, tons of Black Kites, an Eagle, two species of Owl, and several Fruit bats – the list goes on, and on. I would be here for several paragraphs more if I listed all the animals we treated. Not to mention the massive effort by a team of vets based at the charity who were treating literally hundreds of injured pigeons every day. I think as we speak, the current total is about to surpass 2600 birds treated over the last month, and that sadly will continue to rise, likely over 3000, even though the festival itself was over several weeks ago.

This project is an incredible feat, organised by a large team of dedicated vets and volunteers in India, and supplemented by international veterinary professionals including highly skilled veterinary surgeons, veterinary nurses and veterinary assistants. The team is a great one, and without the skills of all involved these birds would face a very grim future.

The centre campaigns tirelessly throughout the festival, encouraging local people to come and see what goes on inside the hospital, and providing education on the dangers of kite string and the damage it can do.

This education and community support is not only vital in the success of the avian A&E which relies on members of the public to bring in injured birds, but also on the future reduction in kite flying and kite string use, and therefore the reduction in future injuries to birds and other animals.

I feel very fortune to have been a part of this large team, and hope to be able to return in the future to continue to assist with the phenomenal work that is being done here.

The money raised by international organisations is vital in providing resources such as needles, syringes, bandage material, feeding supplies, expertise, monitoring equipment and so many other vital resources which make the treatment of these animals so efficient.

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Please read the full article by visiting the link in the below section.

Thank you donors for your support!

Links:

• Our avian rehab work covered by a visiting wildlife vet
• Follow our work on Facebook.

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.

Links:

• Newspaper article on USBC 2018
• Follow our work on Facebook.