As the hottest stretch of the year approaches, birds in the city are struggling to cope with extreme heat even as animal hospitals are regularly receiving cases where dehydrated and exhausted birds are falling from heights, ending up getting injured.

Mayur Dangar, manager at Bai Sakarbai Dinshaw Petit Hospital for Animals, shared, “For this month, the hospital has already received 72 cases of birds and 18 cases of dogs and cats involving dehydration. This figure is alarming because last year we received around 70 such cases across the entire month of March.”