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| Jatinga & it’s mysterious story of birds suicide | | |  Prerna Bhat
I’m pretty sure all of you must be aware of the devil’s bermuda triangle and the mysterious stories associated with it, right? How several aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under strange circumstances there, is still unexplained. But have you heard about the bermuda triangle where birds disappear in a similar manner? No, right?
It is Jatinga. I’m sure you won’t even have heard the name. Jatinga is a village located in Dima Hasao district in the incredible state of Assam. Jatinga is Assam’s only hill station and is a beautiful small village. Inhabited by about 2,500 Khasippnar tribal people and a few assamese, this hamlet is the site for an odd phenomenon- bird suicide. Yes, you heard that right!
Over past few years birds of mang different species have disappeared suddenly. Many theorists have tried to solve this mystry but none have a solid fact of why is it happening. Numerous number of theories have been proposed to support the fact, some of which suggest that a combination of high altitude, high winds, and fog disorients the birds and that they get attracted to the light of the village (bright light itself has been known to disorient birds) as a source of flight stabilization. Change in the magnetic qualities of the underground water has also been stated as another reason for disorientation in the birds.
This phenomenon is usually observed during the end of the monsoon months, usually in September and october, and on dark, foggy nights with no moon in sight. Between 6 and 9.30 PM, several species of birds flying over Jatinga are disturbed by not the locals, but the dark skies. The species affected include tiger bittern, black bittern, little egret, Pind Heron, Indian Pitta, Kingfishers, Hill Partridge, Green Pigeon, Emerald Dove, Necklaces laughing Thrush & Black Drongo.
Even after all the study and research, this mystry of jatinga remains unravelled. It has been explained more precisely about the situation in the book “the birds of Assam” by Anwaruddin Choudhury. |
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