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Vultures sighted
Special Correspondent
CHENNAI: Glad tidings await the wildlife enthusiasts — a good number of vultures have been sighted in Thengumarahada forest area in Sathyamangalam Forest Division a couple of days ago.
S. Chandrasekaran, Member, Bombay Natural History Society, said a postgraduate student of the AVC College, Mayiladuthurai had gone to Thengumarahada to study about the vultures. A few days ago he was surprised to see nearly 200 vultures feeding on the carcasses of two feral buffaloes.
The sighted vultures belonged to three different species — White-backed, King and Nephron.
The Nephron vulture is assumed extinct in the State, said Mr. Chandrasekhar.
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