Over 5,000 open-billed storks and other birds killed by the gusts
BERHAMPUR: Among the casualties of cyclone Titli are hundreds of open-billed storks which were killed and many injured near the Jagannathpur railway station on the city’s outskirts here.
The dead birds were seen scattered all around the railway station and adjoining fields. The injured appear to have taken shelter under the railway wagons and nearby shady places. Some of these also fell prey to predators like dogs.
Inhabitants of nearby Narendrapur and Badakusasthali villages rushed to the spot to help the birds. “But we could do nothing for these birds which had faced the wrath of mother nature,” said Bighneswar Sahu of Badakusasthali. According to locals, the number of open-billed storks and other birds killed at the spot by the cyclone may be more than 5,000.
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