Ahead of the arrival of the first Dassault Rafale fighter jet, which is likely in September, at the strategic Ambala airbase in Haryana, the Indian Air Force (IAF) is concerned about an emerging uncanny situation that could turn alarming.
Scores of earthen and metal bowls kept atop residential houses to feed birds and pigeons food grains and water has left the IAF worried.
Many of these residential premises are not far away from the airfields.
Feeding bowls attract hundreds of birds and pose a threat to IAF aircrafts undertaking routine and other sorties multiple times during the day from this airbase.
Last week, a Jaguar aircraft on a sortie from the Ambala air base was hit by a cluster of birds soon after take-off.
