The birds feed on rats and fish that often ingest poisonous substances. Insecticides also trickle into the water bodies where the storks nest and breed.
Natural habitat: Greater Adjutant Storks scavenge for food in Bhagalpur, Bihar - M IMRAN KHAN×
The birds, locally known as the Garuda, help farmers by killing rats and other farm pests Once found across South and Southeast Asia, the Greater Adjutant is one of the most threatened stork species in the world In Bihar, the discovery of breeding pairs and the growth in numbers since 2007 are the happy stories of conservation A team of young Garuda Saviours has successfully convinced local villagers not to cut old trees and to plant saplings to increase the numbers of trees favoured by the Greater Adjutant Stork