GUWAHATI: A Greater Adjutant Stork chick named 'Tiku' was released back into the wild on May 14 after seven months of rehabilitation.
Tiku had fallen from a 70-foot-tall tree in Dadara of Kamrup district, Assam, along with her sibling, when they were just ten days old.
After this, Kandarpa Medhi, a local villager, spotted the chicks and immediately contacted the Greater Adjutant conservation team of Aaranyak, led by Purnima Devi Barman.
Purnima and her team have been working tirelessly to save these birds from extinction in the villages of Kamrup District for the last 15 years.
Manab and Dipankar, team members of Purnima, rescued the chicks and provided them with care and nourishment.
Later, the chicks were handed over to the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC), Kaziranga, a rescue and rehabilitation centre run by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) in collaboration with the Assam Forest Department.
Samshul Ali, the centre veterinarian of CWRC was involved in the care of the birds, but in the process, one of the chicks succumbed to its injuries.
However, the other chick responded well to the treatment and slowly recovered.
Yesterday, after seven months of care at CWRC, the bird was taken near its rescue villages for rehabilitation and released into the wilderness again.