Another tag-fitted Houbara bird caught

JAISALMER: Another Houbara bird was caught at a BSF outpost in Jaisalmer’s Tanot area adjoining the Indo-Pak border on Tuesday evening. The BSF jawans handed it over to Ramgarh police station.
The jawans of 139th battalion, which caught the bird, found that it had a tag fitted to it. The FSL teams are investigating the tagging. It was learnt that Pakistan was taking help of a company from Abu Dhabi to breed Houbara birds.
BSF had caught a Houbara bird with a tag last week too.
BSF senior sources informed that a bird which flew from Pakistan was spotted at border outpost Vijay of 139th battalion, 200metre inside the international border. The BSF jawans caught the bird and found that it was fitted with a tag on its legs with a number. The bird was handed over to Ramgarh police which handed it over to DNP officials. Sources said that experts identified the bird as male Houbara and at the time it was found, it looked very tired, as if about to die. BSF jawans gave it water and food and now the bird is in a better condition.
SAVE vulture community member Dr Daulal Bohra said that the rare bird, Houbara Bustard, is bred in Balochistan area and the hatching centre is at Nag valley in Chawalistan under a joint project of a company of Abu Dhabi and Houbara Foundation International Pakistan. A society from Abu Dhabi is funding and providing facilities for Houbara breeding there.
It is known that two birds were caught on April 4 at Nachana in Jaisalmer and on June 23, at Bikaner border respectively and both were female. A male Houbara was spotted at Ramgarh area in Jaisalmer last week and now again, another one has been caught on Tuesday evening at the same BOP.