China culls birds as bird flu death toll mounts
PATNA: Once a merry flock flirting and chirping uninvited in your courtyard, their numbers fast dwindled in recent years. But thanks to some serious conservation interventions, the population of sparrows has comparatively stabilized. Even some of the metros like Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai like Coimbatore, Pune, Assam, Jharkhand and our own Bihar have reported presence of good number of sparrows, if one goes by a nationwide online survey titled, 'Citizen Sparrow', conducted by the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) in association with National Centre for Biological Sciences and Nature...
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