(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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mississippi kites are slender and elegant, with 3-foot wingspans and plumage that fades from black to a pale gray-white. They ...

Now, Crescent Duck Farm is the only one left. It produced a million ducks a year, until two weeks ago, when bird flu shut the farm down. Corwin said, "I saw a flock one day that was great ...

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 ...