Injured Egyptian vulture rescued near Sulur
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An injured Egyptian vulture
(Neophron percnopterus), one of the nine vulture species found in India, was rescued by a Zoology student from a place near Sulur in Coimbatore district recently.
The sub-adult vulture, right wing of which had a fracture, was shifted to the aviary of the Forest Department in Coimbatore for care.
C. Vijayakumar, a third year BSc Zoology student of Kongunadu Arts and Science College, Coimbatore, rescued the injured vulture from Sri Kumaran Nagar at Pappampatti near Sulur on December 13.
He took the vulture to R. Venkitachalam, assistant professor with the Department of Zoology at Kongunadu College, who did his PhD on vultures.