Five peacocks found dead in Hyderabad - poisioning suspected

The peacock is the national bird and five of them were found dead in IPM Colony at Hayathnagar. Following complaints from residents, officials from the Telangana state forest department have sent the carrion of the birds for postmortem to a veterinary hospital.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 18 January 2017.

As per the preliminary postmortem report it is suspected that the birds were poisoned. The culprits might have killed the birds for their feathers because, photographs of the carcasses show that the birds were without their plume. Initially the authorities had suspected that they were killed for their meat.
The peacock is our national bird and is protected under schedule one of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. Killing a peacock is a serious offense and the offender can be jailed for three to seven years, with a fine up to 25,000 being imposed, or both.


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