As I was reading the book called ''Wildlife Of India''by Mr E.P.Gee, I came across a very rare or I must say an interesting fact about the birds of Halflong a village near Assam more specifically Jatinga.It said that during October-November, on cloudy nights, when the weather is very cold , people light lamps electric bulbs fire etc. They see birds coming from the North-South direction towards them. Feeling the warmth of the lights birds jump into the fire.
It is a kind of suicide done by birds. It is said that the villagers who saw these birds jumping into the fire did nothing but waited for the birds to die so that they could eat the birds.
After reading this, I grew more interested and started to read the book called"Dance of the Sarus" by S.Theodre Baskaran. He also read Mr E.P Gee's book and went to Assam to see this phenomenon.In his he mentions how he had seen a ''Red Headed Tronga 's suicide.I have grown so interested in birds that I also wan to go to Assam to see this phenomenon and I promise that if I ever go I'll surely tell whatever I saw.I'm signing off Bye-bye.
From time immemorial we heard that Jatinga is the suicide venue of birds but any explanation was not known to us .You have given a logical explanation to the phenomenon.Thank you ,Ranjini.
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