This is Bird Note.

Near the center of Delhi, the capital of India, there's a three-story pink building that serves as an unusual type of hospital.

Not for people, but for birds.

It's called the Charity Birds Hospital, and the institution is over 90 years old.

At Charity Birds Hospital, a small staff takes care of approximately

2,600 birds at a time, providing antibiotics, medicine, food, and a safe place to rest for injured

or sick birds. Dr. Harov Thir Singh, the lead veterinarian at the hospital, says the majority of

the birds in the hospital are pigeons,

but they also take care of parrots, kites, vultures, and peacocks depending on the season.

Sometimes I feel it's me, I think these birds is thankful to me.

A big city like Delhi can be perilous to birds.

Dr. Singh notes that fans in the summertime can trap them and children's kite strings slice into their wings. But anyone can bring a bird to birds. Dr. Singh notes that fans in the summertime can trap them and children's kite strings

slice into their wings. But anyone can bring a bird to charity birds hospital, where they are cared for,

completely for free. The hospital is run entirely on donations, mostly from the Jain community,

which follows the philosophy live and let live. If the bird does recover, they're brought to the roof of the hospital

where they're given food, water, and other necessities.

And at the very moment of their choosing, they take a flight, a free bird again.

For a bird note, I'm Trisha McCurgy.