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All Three Manipur-Tagged Amur Falcons Complete Arabian Sea Crossing to Somalia

New tracking data spotlight the species’ reliance on northeast India stopovers.

Overview

  • Wildlife Institute of India confirmed Apapang and Alang arrived in Somalia on 18 November, with Ahu reaching by the morning of 19 November (India time).
  • Apapang covered nearly 5,400 km in 5 days 15 hours, including an approximately 3,100 km nonstop leg over central India and the Arabian Sea in about 76 hours.
  • The trio was captured on 11 November at Tamenglong, Manipur, where three of ten birds were fitted with 3.5‑gram satellite transmitters under Phase 2 of the Manipur Amur Falcon Tracking Project.
  • Post landfall, Apapang moved inland across Somalia toward the Kenya border, taking his tracked total to roughly 6,100 km in six days eight hours.
  • Manipur enforced 10–30 November prohibitory orders that ban hunting and require temporary surrender of airguns to protect the migration, complementing community-led conservation at termite-rich stopovers in Manipur and Nagaland.