An ornithologist said that the sprawling Kaluveli Lake in Villupuram and Odiyur Lake in Kancheepuram had gone bone dry owing to severe drought and only a few lakes such as the Oussudu Lake contained. Spot Billed Pelicans at the Oussudu Lake near Puducherry on Tuesday. A bird lover shows the carcass of a Spot Billed Pelican, one of the many migratory birds, found dead on the Oussudu Lake bed near Puducherry on Tuesday. The modus operandi of the poachers is to trap the birds by mixing poisonous substance in fish and grains on the sprawling lake. “However, more than nine years after the Lake was declared a bird sanctuary, the Forest Department has failed to take up any conservation measures.
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