Faces People, Places, and World Culture for Kids and Children

CARING FOR WOUNDED WINGED FRIENDS

NEW DELHI, India’s sprawling capital, abounds with birds. Pigeons and doves coo and flutter around rooftops. Black kites shriek as they soar across the sky. Crows and parakeets jostle for scraps. Strutting peacocks and sunbathing hoopoes also call this concrete jungle their home.

But life for these birds is filled with peril. Every year, glass-covered strings (called pronounced MAAN-jha) used in kite-fighting matches slash

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