As fog comes on a moonless night......When the wind blows in direction right....
Jatinga turns into an island of search light,& birds appear like ghosts from nowhere.
Jatinga , a village on a ridge, is located in the North Cachar Hills district, Assam State in India. It is 330km south of Guwahati. It is most famous for the phenomenon of birds “committing suicide”. This small place of beauty is mainly inhabited by about 2,500 Jaintia tribal people.At the end of monsoon months, mysterious behavior of birds takes place. During moonless and foggy dark nights between 6 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., flying birds come crashing to the ground with no prior warning whatsoever. This phenomenon is not confined to a single species, with Tiger Bittern, Black Bittern, Little Egret, Pond Heron, Indian Pitta and Kingfishers all being affected.
Conservation groups and wildlife officials in India have taken steps to prevent wanton killing of birds across India, creating awareness in the illiterate villagers. Since then, the amount of birds killed have decreased by about 40 percent.
(source: Wikipedia)
A similar light phenomenon occurs in the Philipines in about the same time and in similar climatic conditions i.e. on foggy, windy and moonless nights.
While most of the birds are trapped with what they call "Tawang" in the Philippines are supposed to be migrants, those at Jatinga are not necessarily so. (http://www.travelmasti.com/domestic/assam/jatinga.htm)
Jatinga girls perform the plate dance during the first International Jatinga Festival at Jatinga in Assam on Wednesday. (Source: The Hindu Thursday, Oct 28, 2010)
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