(HT Photo) While the loss of life of the birds cannot be quantified, scores of them get injured in incidents related to glass-coated kite strings on the festival and only a few lucky ones are able ...

Nine-year-old Pareeksh, who had come to Govind Gaudham on Makar Sankranti to offer fodder to the cows, was taken aback after seeing the injured birds. “Nobody ever told me that kite strings can ...

Animal activists have rescued more than 60 birds injured by kite ‘manja’ in Mumbai as part of a three-day drive during the Makar Sankranti celebrations, a wildlife welfare group representative ...

Animal activists have rescued more than 60 birds injured by kite 'manjha' in Mumbai as part of a three-day drive during the Makar Sankranti celebrations, a wildlife welfare group representative ...

Nylon manja, the string used for kite-flying, is a death knell for birds, which are left nursing injuries after the festival of kites or succumb to them. A Hyderabad-based NGO Animal Warriors ...

Mumbai: A total of 700 bird injuries were recorded in the last two days of the kite flying festival in MMR, even as the Mumbai police booked 23 persons for the illegal use of nylon manja to fly kites.

Kites in the shapes of animals, birds, reptiles, flowers, comic characters and the like attracted many visitors. The stunt kites of Greece could be heard making sounds. “These kites have a fibre ...

A subtype of bird flu caused by avian influenza A (H5) virus has been spreading worldwide in wild birds with a few outbreaks in poultry, dairy cows and other mammals across the United States ...

Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on pandemics since 2009 and is the ...

The strain had previously been found only in birds and people. Most bird flu infections in dairy cattle in the US have been the B3.13 variant, or what’s become known as the “cattle clade.” ...