This is bird note.

Conservation biologist Hornymah Devi Barman returned to Assam India where she grew up to work with a highly endangered bird, the greater adjutant stork.

The species nests in populated areas of Assam, where it's known as the Hargila.

Because their scavengers, some see the Hargula as unclean and remove trees where they nest.

Hornima once saw a man cutting down one of these trees and felt helpless to stop him.

From that day my mission started to save Hagula from extinction to save their habitat to

educate people. So I tried to bring the bird into their tradition, into their

cultures. Hornima found creative ways to bring the stork into the daily lives of

local women. She held a baby shower for the storks

to celebrate their breeding season.

And then we celebrated with the people,

with the women of the village together,

like Stork's baby's hour, like exactly the way we do for the Assamis women when they are expecting mothers.

Then I don't need to tell them the do not cut them the trees.

Then they came to know that we have to protect the trees.

With help from the local people, the Hargila population has grown. You can see these

massive prehistoric-looking birds in a new documentary called Hargila, produced by

Garrett Vin and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Find a link on our website, Birdnote.org.

I'm Mark Bramhill. And go to the tomorrow and tomorrow.