Odisha: Death Of Migratory Birds Trigger Bird Flu Scare In Banki | OTV News

Death of migratory birds triggers hen flu scare in Banki

Cuttack: In the backdrop of a number of states within the nation reporting the unfold of hen flu of late, panic gripped a village in Banki space after locals discovered a number of migratory birds mendacity lifeless on Wednesday morning.
The residents of Banki Gada village noticed the carcass of round half a dozen of Ruddy Shelducks mendacity on farmlands adjoining to the village. Some different migratory avian species had been additionally seen wriggling in ache. The birds, often known as Brahminy duck, are initially natives of Europe and Central Asia and fly over to the Indian sub-continent throughout winter.
Snake helpline members reached the village to look into the scenario after some villagers sought their intervention to seek out out the rationale behind the bizarre demise of the birds which flock the quite a few water our bodies in and across the district, most notably Chilika lagoon in Khordha, yearly.
Though the precise cause behind the hen mortality couldn’t be confirmed, snake helpline members have urged the Assistant Conservator of Forests (ACF) at Khordha to launch a probe into the deaths.
“We cannot say exactly how the birds had died. It may be due to poisoning or poaching. We also won’t be able to claim whether the bird mortality was due to bird flu until the samples are tested,” stated a snake helpline member.
Official remark from the involved authorities remains to be to be obtained on this connection.
It could also be famous that the Odisha authorities has claimed that there was no experiences of hen flu within the State to this point.

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