nagpur if you go bird watching you may come across a green pigeon popularly called a hariyal which is also the state bird however antipoaching squad on tuesday seized 12 hariyals in kalmeshwar 30km from city ss saste assistant conservator of forests acf heading the squad attached to nagpur territorial circle and his team seized 12 birds from a weekly market in kalmeshwar during a routine checkthe bird sellers fled the spot after seeing the forest men we seized the live birds and released them in gorewada forests said sasteaccording to market sources one hariyal is sold for rs 100 select customers buy the bird not to keep it as a pet but to consume its meat hariyal is a shy bird and migrates locally but is mostly found in central india and places like ramtek katol kalmeshwar pench and melghat bird watcher tarun balpande says in the city hariyals are seen on big banyan and pipal trees at telangkhedi ambazari gorewada seminary hills maharajbagh and vnit sale of state bird is a serious issue the department should make people aware about hariyals the officials should deal with such people more sternly balpande said