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wamu885: Delhi’s Old City is crowded with fighting kites—the strings are coated with glass to cut the strings of other kites.
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wamu885: Rafiq has been flying kites for 30 years.
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wamu885: Brothers Rafiq and Arif are careful to keep their kites from injuring passing birds.
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wamu885: But many birds are not so lucky as they get tangled in the sharp strings.
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wamu885: Brothers Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad come to the rescue of injured birds by collecting them and bringing them to a makeshift bird hospital in their house.
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wamu885: Black kites, a common scavenger bird, are the most commonly injured and have taken up residence on their roof.
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wamu885: Operating on a bird that was cut by kite string.
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wamu885: Injecting the bird.
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wamu885: The patient recovering.
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wamu885: Nadeem with a grateful patient.
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wamu885: The birds finally have free reign of the sky in the evenings when the kite-fliers come in for dinner.