A single hunter downs 800 falcons in a day and there were more than 200 hunters hunting for almost two weeks. December 6, 2013 December 23, 2019 Supertrooper News, Wildlife.

After 20 years of invasion, growth reduction was evident across the forest area. 228.

Today the leopard is confined to a small sliver of land in SW Primorsky Krai, on the Russian-Chinese border (shown in darkest red).

Amur falcons travel up to 22,000 km in a year, this being one of the longest migration routes of all birds The Amur Falcon (Falco amurensis) is a complete, long distance, trans-equatorial migrant. Millions of Amur falcons were massacred in a two week hunting frenzy for recreation at Doyang area of Wokha district in Nagaland during October, 2012. 3 Nesting Ecology of Amur Falcons 267. daily survival rate (DSR) of eggs and nest-lings, and determine how falcons selected nest structures, we used linear models based on nest and site covariates. The Amur falcon is a fascinating bird. 90, No. Ecology Habitat loss has resulted in significant reduction in the Amur leopard's range over the last 2 centures. The lack of significant differences between FP and PP locations in spring could be attributed to the low use of the partially protected area during winter (i.e. Vol. decrease in recreational fishing, anchoring and diving) that allowed the fish community to reach the state comparable to that of the fully protected area before summer (Claudet et al., 2011). Stable isotopes (δD, δ 13 C, δ 15 N) were measured in adult and juvenile Amur Falcon Falco amurensis feathers to understand the migratory connectivity of this species. Using dendrochronology techniques, they determined that significant reduction in growth first occurred about 6 years after honeysuckle invaded the forest. This arduous journey includes a non-stop flight over the Arabian Sea after passing across India. Thousands of Amur falcons, small birds of prey, are congregating at the Doyang reservoir in Wokha district, having flown thousands of kilometres from Siberia.

One such plan was to satellite track Amur Falcon to better understand their behaviour and ecology during their presence in Nagaland, along the migration routes, and in the wintering areas in Africa.

The Amur falcon (Falco amurensis) is a small raptor of the falcon family. Millions of Amur falcons use northeast India as a pit stop during their remarkable journey of 22,000 km from Siberia to southern Africa—the longest of any raptor. The total killed can be determined through a simple calculation. It breeds in south-eastern Siberia and Northern China before migrating in large flocks across India and over the Arabian Sea to winter in Southern Africa Description. It is only the size of a pigeon, but it has one of the longest migratory paths in the bird kingdom, travelling up to 22,000 km in a year. Using the OIPC (Online Isotopes in Precipitation Calculator) and a calibration curve for American Kestrels Falco sparverius we predicted the breeding range of South African Amur Falcons in the Palaearctic. The plight of the Amur Falcons in Nagaland came to fore when Conservation India and its associates at Nagaland Wildlife and Biodiversity Conservation Trust exposed the killings in October 2012 and set off a campaign to conserve the Amur Falcons – a small but long-distance migratory bird of prey that breeds in Eastern Russia and China.

The Pangti Story: How a Nagaland village turned from hunting ground to safe haven for Amur falcon Six years ago, villagers in Pangti hunted nearly 14,000 of the migratory bird but now they guard them. Amur falcons are known to breed in southeast Russia and northern China and migrate west through India and across the Arabian Sea to southern Africa where they spend their winter, making a round-trip of at least 20,000 km every year, travelling between their breeding and wintering grounds.