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Monday, March 12, 2012

Endangered State bird ‘Munal’ wanders into house at Upper Tintek


GANGTOK, 11 Mar: A Munal, the state bird of Sikkim was found at Upper Tintek in Tumin-Lingee constituency on Saturday.  This endangered species suddenly entered the house of one Kazi Giri at Upper Tintek on Saturday morning at around 8 AM and with the help of his neighbours, Tika Devi Nepal, Sindu Giri, LD Pandey and CB Bhujel, the bird was rescued from the house.
The rescued bird was then handed over to the area MLA, Ugen T Gyatso. It is learnt that the bird of around 4 kg weight was later handed over to the Wildlife Division of the Forest Department on the direction and supervision of the area MLA. The people of the area believe that this male bird had come from the Fambong Lho Wildlife Sanctuary.
The area MLA expressed his happiness over the people of his area rescuing the bird and handing it over to the concerned division. He also expressed that due to the government’s programmes and policies to preserve the state’s rich biodiversity many species of the state, which were at the verge of extinction, are again being spotted. [from NANDU DUTRAJ]

1 comment:

  1. Oh poor bird!! whats it doing on a table in a closed room!! and what a long journey it has had....from the house it strayed into ....then the area MLA and then only to the wild life deptt,whihc is actually the custodian of the bird !!! culd they not have just called the concernd authorities and done the needful.

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