Glue traps that people commonly use to trap rodents seem to be death traps for other creatures as well. On Tuesday, a red-throated flycatcher — a migratory bird that travels thousands of kilometres during the winter to India — got caught in a glue trap in Lonavala. The bird breeds in eastern Europe and across central Asia.

The creature would have died if not for the efforts of Dr Raju Kasambe from the Bombay Natural History Society(BNHS) and his son who carefully prised the bird out of the industrial strength glue, cleaned it up and released it back in the wild on Wednesday.