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Avian Rehabilitation
Rescue, treatment and scientific rehabilitation for injured, orphaned and displaced birds — more than 100 species, including critically endangered vultures — and the community work that keeps them in the sky.
Overview
Birds come back from things that should have killed them
Every year thousands of birds are injured, displaced and orphaned, or fall ill, because of what people have built and done. The trust rescues, treats and rehabilitates birds of more than 100 species, critically endangered vultures among them.
The project funds four things: upgrading the rehabilitation facilities, building the capacity of the trust's own staff, training avian rehabilitators from organisations across India, and running community awareness work that argues for coexistence.
- 100+
- Species treated and rehabilitated
- 2,240
- Birds treated in January 2020
- 441
- Raptors among them
Challenge and solution
What puts a bird on the table here
The challenge
- Over 2,000 infant water birds are displaced every year as habitat degrades and nesting sites disappear.
- Over 5,000 birds of more than 100 local and migratory species are cut by glass-coated kite string every year during Uttarayan, Gujarat's kite festival.
- An average of 20 critically endangered white-rumped vultures die each year from unnatural causes — kite string, poisoning, electrocution.
What the centre does
- Rescues, treats, rehabilitates and releases injured, diseased, distressed, orphaned and displaced birds.
- Works to science-based guidelines and protocols rather than to improvisation.
- Trains avian rehabilitators from other organisations across India.
- Runs community awareness programmes that make the case for coexistence.
Long-term impact
Conservation, and the argument for it
Conservation of the endangered and the common bird species of Ahmedabad, through scientific rehabilitation — and through public education, because a city that understands why a kite string cuts a wing is a city that flies fewer of them.
Over 100 species, including critically endangered vultures.
Reports
Monthly treatment summary — January 2020
The month
- Total birds
- 2,240
- Infants
- 326
- Raptors
- 441
Figures as published by the trust for January 2020. The month's summary and the species table are separate counts on that page and do not add up to each other; both are reproduced as printed.
Birds treated, by species
- Rock pigeon
- 2,010
- Indian black kite
- 408
- Crow
- 52
- Black ibis
- 37
- Dove
- 30
- Rose-ringed parakeet
- 28
- Barn owl
- 23
- Painted stork
- 17
- Asian koel
- 15
- Peafowl
- 9
- Budgerigar
- 8
- Egrets
- 7
- Shikra
- 5
- Comb duck
- 5
- Coot
- 4
- Grey lag goose
- 3
- Thicknee
- 3
- Cormorant
- 3
- Green pigeon
- 3
- Bee eater
- 2
- Brahminy duck
- 2
- Booted eagle
- 1
- Scops owl
- 1
- Short-toed snake eagle
- 1
- Falcon
- 1
- Eurasian griffon vulture
- 1
- Purple moorhen
- 1
- White ibis
- 1
- Total
- 2,681
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