Rajasthan's Sambhar lake, death bed for thousands of birds | Ghanti Bajao

An extensive search operation continued on Saturday in Rajasthan's Sambhar Lake to retrieve more bird carcasses, after a total of 8,065 were taken out since they were first spotted earlier this week.

The dead birds were first seen on Monday floating in the country's largest inland salt lake and included species like plovers, common coot, black winged stilt, northern shovelers, ruddy shelduck, and pied avocet among many other migratory birds.

On Monday 716 carcasses were taken out. The next day, 1,622 carcasses were fished out, followed by 1,922, 540, 3,265 on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, respectively.