Bombay Shitehawk

The most famous Indian bird, the Bombay Shitehawk is famous for its voracious appetite. It is normally a timid and solitary little bird but if unable to find sufficient carrion it has been known to band together with other shitehawks to attack and eat cats, small dogs, baby elephants and, occassionally, human children. The government in New Dehli is considering whether to order a cull of the birds but faces opposition from the people of Mumbai (as Bombay is now called) who believe that if the shitehawk were ever to leave the town then a great disaster will befall the nation, a superstition which they decided to copy from the Tower of London after reading about it in a travel guide.