Amur Falcon flies 6,000 km from Odisha to China in 18 days
Scientists from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) had attached a satellite transmitter on the bird on November 8, 2024, in Tamenglong district of Manipur. Suresh Kumar, a senior scientist of the Dehradun-based WII said, the GPS tracker showed the bird first travelled about 4,000 km from Southern Africa to reach Karlapat wildlife sanctuary in Kalahandi district of Odisha on April 30. It stayed for three days in forests of Odisha from April 30 to May 2.
'On May 1, its presence was recorded in a forest around 30 km from Phulbani. We also tracked the bird on May 2 in the forest of Dhenkanal district,' added Kumar. From Odisha, the falcon continued its journey, passing through the mangrove forests of Sundarbans in Bangladesh and then through Myanmar. It continued flying over Wuhan in China, crossing both the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea before finally reaching Manchurian Bay in northeastern China on May 20.
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