This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Miles and in this edition...

So innocent, so mesmerising, so unique.

They're the most beautiful bird in the world.

How one woman in India helped save a rare bird by persuading others to share her

passion for them. Also, lessons on overcoming adversity from a woman who spent months trapped on a

small boat during the pandemic. No matter how challenging, it can be in the moment where I am in.

I have enough resilience and strength within me

to transform it into a growing opportunity. Plus, helping older people keep enjoying the thrills of

cycling. These rides were breaks for her to be able to get out and to feel the air, to see around

her. It's a breath of fresh air for her, literally.

And the unique dance moves of cockatoos.

We start with an unusual and rather amazing idea

that's helped save one of India's rarest birds from extinction.

Pormina Devi Barman, who lives in Assam, was moved and upset

when she saw so many baby greater adjutant stalks dying when their nests were cut down.

They are very captivating. They have a dangling, inflatable gular pouch and their eyes are deep blue,

intense blue, so innocent, so mesmerizing, so unique. They're the most beautiful bird in the

wall and, you know, I mean it, I mean it.

So, having recently become a mother herself, she decided to draw attention to their

plight by doing what many of us do as a celebration for expectant mothers, throw a baby shower

for them. The stalks, known locally as hagiila, used to be found across India and Cambodia,

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