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GUWAHATI
A pistillate calf calved to 1 of the oldest elephants serving the Assam Forest Department has been named Mayabini to honour Zubeen Garg, the Assamese taste icon who died successful Singapore connected September 19.
Kuwari, who has been with the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve for astir 4 decades, gave commencement to Mayabini astatine the changeable of noon connected October 4. The calf was her 2nd offspring aft Griharaj a fewer years ago.
Announcing the commencement of the steadfast pistillate calf, Assam’s Forest Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary said her name, chosen with “immense affection and nationalist goodwill”, would convey “new life, hope, and harmony successful the wild”.
The calf’s sanction has been derived from Mayabini raatir bukut (In the bosom of this magical night), 1 of Garg’s favourite songs that became an anthem for his fans aft his death.
“Kuwari has been with Kaziranga since 1986. She was handed implicit to our Eastern Range successful 2014 aft serving the Central Range, Kohora,” Sonali Ghosh, the Director of the tiger reserve, told The Hindu on Sunday (October 5, 2025).
The migratory painted stork recorded successful Kaziranga aft 3 years. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Earlier, the Kaziranga authorities reported the sighting of the migratory painted stork (Mycteria leucocephala) successful the nationalist parkland aft 3 years. Known globally arsenic the champion code of the one-horned rhinos and tigers, Kaziranga is simply a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The ample wading vertebrate belonging to the stork household Ciconiidae, recognisable by its striking plumage with rose-pink tertial feathers, achromatic and achromatic markings, and a agelong yellow-orange bill, was past sighted successful Kaziranga during the migratory waterfowl census successful 2022.
The painted stork, classified arsenic adjacent threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, was archetypal recorded successful Kaziranga successful 2004. The lone different sighting earlier 2022 was successful 2005.
Wildlife officials said the sighting of a brace of painted storks connected October 3 was significant, arsenic it coincided with the accomplishment of wintertime migratory birds successful Kaziranga. The taxon is distributed crossed the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia, but is threatened owed to situation loss, wetland degradation, and disturbances successful breeding colonies.
