Winter birds
Amena Tahete Alam Chittagong
Cold wind has started to blow and it reminds us that the winter is coming. The visiting birds, a beautiful creature, also start to come to Bangladesh from the Arctic regions during the chilly days. But, there are some greedy men who catch the birds and sell them in the streets. These birds are our guests of winter. But they have no security. The government should taka proper steps to protect these birds. We should not buy the birds from the greedy sellers . We should have the sense that birds are too lovely to be caught and slaughtered. ***Most often we see some people selling the guest birds standing in the city streets. The background behind the coming of these birds to our land is very sad and painful. Especially , when the extent of coldness reaches beyond the limit of endurance, the guest birds begin to migrate to far-off lands from that moment. They come not only because of biting cold but also for want of food. They begin to move to our land in swarms . The most wonderful fact about these birds is that they fly thousands and thousands of miles at a stretch when they come to our land. And in the same way when they return to their homeland with the change of season, they again fly thousands and thousands of miles. It takes three months to cover the distance from their homeland to our country and when they return, it takes another three months. Thus six months of their lives are lost in the air. We regard them as our guests because they come to our land only to stay for a short period in search of food and shelter. We wonder how unkind could we be to catch them and eat them with great relish. I feel inclined to ask-- why should we be so heartless? Umme Habiba On e-mail
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