This village is home for birds for six months every year
This village is home for birds for six months every year
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Kokkerbellur village in Mandaya district of Bengaluru is very busy at the moment. Presently, the village of Pura is taking care of its daughters and grandchildren. In such a situation, the question must be coming in your mind that how can daughters of the whole village come together? Explain that this village treats migratory birds as its daughter. Just as according to tradition, daughters come to the maternal house for childbirth, in the same way, migratory birds like pelicans and painted storks come here. Yes, it is a bit strange to hear, but it will be interesting to see so many birds.

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Pelican birds have arrived in Kokkerbellur only in the month of October. After about six months, that is, by April, when their children learn to fly and gather food, these birds will return. Similarly, migratory birds painted storks will also stay here from December to July. This unique relationship between birds and villagers has been around for 200 years and four generations. These migratory birds make a nest with paddy grass, so the people of the village lay the paddy grass on their roofs to live.

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Not only this, the people of Kokkarabellur village consider these Fukhis to be auspicious before marriage and see if there is a nest in the house in which their children's relationship is connecting. The administration and the village people make special arrangements to keep migratory birds and their children. Their children are not injured by falling from the tree, so nets have been planted around the trees. A few years ago many birds died due to current, so now all the electric wires have been covered.

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Animals are tied under the tree on which these birds live so that no animal can harm the eggs by climbing the tree. These migratory birds also enjoy a good relationship with the people of the village. Let us tell that this village was on the banks of the Simsa river a kilometer away some time ago, but due to the plague, the village changed its place. Birds also started coming to the new place of the villagers. Explain that the main food of birds is fish, for which now they have to fly to the river bank. Kokkerbellur village is the only community reserve in Karnataka. Apart from India, migratory birds coming to this village are found in Sri Lanka, Cambodia, and Thailand.

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