(IN) The Great Indian Hornbill seized frm the house of a German National!

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Well, nothing new in that! Our local birds such as the muniyas, make it as far

as The Netherlands…and several falcons such as the Shaheen Falcon to The Middle

East!!!!!!!! At least the poor Hornbill didn't have to travel out of India! I

am sure if several houses in the respective countries/continents, are raided

then am sure the officials would find birds enough to open up a Zoo dedicated

only to the birds!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Warm Regards

Radhika Singh

 

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Endangered bird found in Auroville home

8 Jul 2009, 2202 hrs IST, PTI

 

 

PUDUCHERRY: Forest officials have traced a 'Great Indian Hornbill', an

endangered species of bird, to the house of a German national in

 

Auroville, an official said.

 

Instructions have been issued to department staff to seize the female bird under

the Wildlife Protection Act 1972, a senior official of the Forest Department at

Villupuram in neighbouring Tamil Nadu said.

 

The official said the German National Thomas was allegedly keeping the bird in

his home for nearly 12 years. On a tip-off the forest department officials

traced the bird to the German national's house yesterday.

 

A special cage was being got ready to take the bird to Vandalur zoo in Chennai.

 

The bird is listed under schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act and keeping

it without valid permission was violative of the Act, he said.

 

'The bird measures nearly 150 cms in height and its wings are so broad that it

had got to be handled carefully.The bird's beak is also too long. Such types of

birds will normally be seen in Western Ghats and they are delicate', he said.

 

Auroville is outside the jurisdiction of Puducherry, a forest department

official here said.