Overview
- Apapang completed a journey of about 5,000 kilometres from India to Somalia in just over five days, with a senior state conservation official later citing nearly 5,400 kilometres.
- The adult male averaged close to 1,000 kilometres per day during the oceanic leg, according to updates shared by Indian conservation officials.
- Earlier in the trek he flew non-stop for roughly 76 hours over 3,100 kilometres across central India, passing Gujarat before heading out over the Arabian Sea.
- Apapang, Alang and Ahu were satellite-tagged on November 11 at the Chiuluan roost in Tamenglong as part of Phase 2 of the Manipur Amur Falcon Tracking Project led by the Wildlife Institute of India.
- The project maps routes and monitors environmental patterns to guide conservation, reflecting a community shift in Manipur from hunting to active protection of Amur Falcons.