KOLKATA, India — Around two hundred cattle egrets, including hatchlings, died in Tangla town in the northeastern Indian state of Assam after the Tangla Municipal Board, a civic body, on June 24, ordered the removal of a bamboo thicket where the birds were nesting. This was done because the authorities suspected that the SAR-CoV-2 virus could spread from the birds’ habitat […]
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