6 months ago
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Around 7 a.m., connected January 10, erstwhile I went connected a stroll astatine the parkland astatine Indira Nagar Fourth Cross Street, I saw carcasses of 2 crows. I americium not alone: for astir 2 weeks now, residents from assorted parts of the city, notably Indira Nagar, Sashtri Nagar, Thiruvanmiyur, Velachery and Neelankarai are reporting crow deaths successful their cervix of the woods.
What I find additionally disturbing is the show of severed crow wings this greeting astatine this parkland arsenic good arsenic astatine a roadworthy successful the neighbourhood connected an earlier day. At the park, I recovered severed crow wings successful a fewer places.
On First Avenue successful Indira Nagar, the show of a severed crow helping had greeted me. It is apt a feline had fed upon a dormant crow; that is astir apt the lawsuit astatine the parkland arsenic well. Usually, erstwhile cats seizure and termination a bird, they permission the wings down arsenic it is hard to ingest them.
According to paper reports, TANUVAS has carried retired post-mortem connected the carcasses of these crows and person travel up with circumstantial findings astir changes successful the circumstantial assemblage parts of the crows, peculiarly kidneys and spleen. Further studies are going to beryllium conducted elsewhere to ascertain the causal factors for the sudden, unexplained deaths.
While that is going on, I would petition section civic authorities to person their eyes peeled for crow deaths and wide the carcasses without immoderate delay.
I americium a layman, but I bash recognize the dangers of biomagnification. While we hold for a conclusive connection connected what is causing crows to driblet dormant successful this disturbing manner, we would bash good to guarantee immoderate it is successful their strategy that is causing this is not transferred to different creatures. I truthful petition that the carcasses beryllium cleared earlier cats oregon dogs get to them.
(C. Namachivayam who wrote this nonfiction for The Hindu Downtown is simply a nonmigratory of Indira Nagar)
