ML157033821

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Observation details

An Injured bird was found at my uncles farm by his farm worker who saw it resting and panting under the banana plantation shade at my uncles farm. My driver Mathan immediately called and informed me the same. Along with my friend Sowjanya I rushed to the spot and rescued it. Its left leg was broken,immobile,swollen and bleeding. It was in panic. It dint take any food or water. Brought it to the city for treatment,Birder Gaja Mohanraj accompanied me to Cbe Govt. Vetinary hospital on advise from reputed vetinarian. Dr. Srinivasan did first aid and said they dint have much facilities to treat the bird as it had broken leg and severely injured and also they had no experience treating such birds. Birder Rajinikanth suggested and helped me contact Forest vetinarian who examined the injury and advised me to take it to Salem for surgery due to severe injury issues. He also fixed an appointment for surgery. I took it back home as it was too late. Left some water and worms for the bird to eat but failed attempts. I let it sleep overnight having no other choice. In the meanwhile I spoke to Salem birder Murugesh Natesan to help me around the next day at Salem for which he agreed generously. Next day early morning along with Birder Sathyanarayan I took the injured bird to Salem (may 8). Birder Murugesh was already waiting for us at the clinic.Dr.Amarnath,(Amulya pet clinic - 9443269490)a very knowledgeable and extremely kind gentleman examined the bird and explained he had to amputate it's injured leg becos it had totally crushed bones and the leg had turned completely cold. Dr. Said the injury was due to catapult attack and has happened two days back so survival would be a challenge depending on the ability of the bird to revive through the trauma. He operated the bird and we waited for it's post operative recovery. He also explained how to take care of the bird post recovery and said it would be very difficult for this bird to survive in the wild. It would take at least a week to ten days for it to heal. He also added its better to rehabilitate it at a zoo or at home with personal care. But finally the wait was over, it came to a sad end. The bird dint survive . RIP !! Thanks to my Uncle Ranganathan,Driver Mathan,farm worker Gopi,friends,birders, doctors and staff who supported and helped me through these efforts.

Technical information

Model

vivo 1727

ISO

1414

Focal length

3.5 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/2.0

Shutter speed

0.05 sec

Dimensions

4608 pixels x 3456 pixels

Original file size

3.68 MB