<i>Nearly extinct vulture caught in Thakurgaon</i>

Villagers caught a nearly extinct species of vulture from a water body at Bandigarh village under Thakurgaon Sadar upazila on Monday evening.
During a visit to the village on yesterday afternoon, this correspondent saw the two legs of the 1.75-feet long bird weighing about 15-kg was tied up with rope.
Al-Amin, 15, son of Mohammad Azizul, caught the bird from Haribeell (a water body) area at about 7:00pm when the bird was searching food on foot, locals said.
Irfanul Haque, 35, of Inua village under Pirganj upazila, said he saw a similar bird at his village about ten years ago and it is locally known as hokash pakhi.
"From the photograph, the bird seems to be an almost extinction species of vulture. They mainly feed on flesh of dead bodies. Now dead animals are generally put under the ground and so, vultures suffer for want of food. Besides they are facing difficulties to make nests due to shortage of big trees," said District Livestock Officer Mosaddikur Rahman.
He said he will decide what to do about the vulture after visiting it soon.