We received many birds in the month of October suffering from trauma and illness due to the heavy monsoons. We received a total of 331 orphan birds, most of which had to be handraised. They were provided with special care in the brooders and were given formula food until being weaned on natural diet.
Other birds that came in were suffering from injuries, both soft tissue injuries and bone fractures. They require long term care and a lot of physiotherapy before they are fit for release. Other birds totalled 945 and around 80% were successfully saved.
A lot of birds came to us in emaciated condition, malnourished and dehydrated. This suggests that the rapid urbanization is taking a toll on these birds and perhaps on other urban wildlife. Sometimes, supportive care for a few days help them fully recover and they are released back in nature.
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These past few weeks have truly been a 'baby bird season'. We received a total of 267 baby (mostly orphan) birds of 31 species that we spent most of time handraising, and then rehabilitating back. It is very important to provide the right nutrition for the species we work with, else birds suffer from various conditions due to improper nutrition. We also make sure to provide a well designed pre-release conditioning environment wherein the babies learn and exhibit natural behaviors and are often kept with adult conspecifics.
Other birds that came in for vairous injuries and illnesses were 971. A large majority of these are rock pigeons that are very common in our city but we also get rare, endangered, and sometimes critically endangered species for rehabilitation.
Our ultimate goal remains to rehabilitate as many as we can back in nature. Thank you for your support!
Avian rehabilitation summary for the month of April 2017
Summer creeps in, with a whole of challenges for birds. Our centre received a whopping total of 1685 birds of 34 species. After our annual campaign to save birds that are injured by the sharp, glass powder-coated threads used to fly kites during Uttarayan festival, we thought April would be much less damaging. Sadly, anthropogenic threats are killing birds everyday. We received orphan nestlings, starving fledgelings, injured juveniles, and adults with various ailments. We are never happy to receive so many rescued birds but are satisfied these birds reach our facility mostly in time. We try our best to give them the best shot at life. Majority of the birds were black kites and rock pigeons as they are most abundant in the urban environment. Other species are trying hard to survive in the constantly changing environment thats brings in its share of challenges.
While we received a large variety of birds, our biggest successes were hand-raising 40 orphan parakeets (rose-ringed, plum-headed, and Alexandrine) and 11 house swifts. They were fed species specific formula food until weaned of completely on to their natural diet. The feeding regime was very strictly monitored by our curator. Weight charts were maintained to determine appropriate growth of the birds.Nutritional needs are very different for different species and we take care that birds get what is needed. Our expert staff has been working on developing the right food that aids in proper growth. We also successfully rehabilitated a great white pelican with a fracture (treated with intramedullary pinning), treated several cases of trichomoniasis, and traumas.
We also received birds with fractures and dislocations, that needed physiotherapy sessions for many days before they could heal fully. Small birds like purple sunbird are very difficult to provide appropriate slings due to their small size. Our team however made a comfortable sling out of medicine boxes!
Several birds came with conditions like dehydration and starvation. Changing urban landscapes are becoming more and more difficult for the birds to survive. Ponds and lakes are being filled up for ‘development’, green cover is reducing, foraging grounds are disappearing. We need to get more and more efficient with our rehabilitation work, as well as our community engagement programs including working with the government.
Thank you for making this possible for us to work for the birds.
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Respected All Donors,
Jivdaya Charitable Trust is an NGO giving free medical treatment to Sick/Injured animals and birds since 2007. Till date we have treated more than 2,00,000 animals/birds and make them pain free life.
We do a campaign to save the birds during Uttrayan. Many national and international avian experts join our mission. We have been running this campaign since 2007; thousands of birds of different species including some endangered species are treated every year. Birds data of Uttrayan 2017 are mentioned bellow
BIRDS DATA UTTRAYAN 2017
TOTAL INWARD BIRDS
3252
DEATH ON ARRIVAL
117
DEAD BIRDS (DURING TREATMENT)
401
BIRDS RELEASED
2468
BIRDS UNDER TREATMENT
269
SUCCESS RATIO : BIRDS UTTRAYAN 2017
86%
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Many thanks for your help
Dharmendra Rathod
Manager, JCT
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