Amur Falcon a raptor bird of the falcon family . It is called the longest migratory birds in the world , traveling from the souh- eastern siberia to the the south africa . It almost flight 22000 km in one year . Luckily it stops in the Pangti village of Nagaland for some week . Amur Falcons can continuously fly for days without taking a stop . The name comes from it’s Home . Here in its home of this birds amur river flows . This river is world’s 10 longest river making natural boundary between china and russia. The name of the bird comes from this river .
It mainly eat some smaller bird , smaller insects ,termides , ants ect . They normally eat in the early morning or in the evening . One interesting fact about this bird is that when they are flying also they can eat .
They fly very high when they migrate , almost 1000m. They have an average speed of 30-40 km/hr . They started their journey from the mongolia or south eastern seiberia or northern china to south africa for hot weather because they can not survive in the cold temperature in seiberia. In Nagaland they stop for sometime. Here they rests for certain days and then start the journey for south africa over the Arabian sea . After entering africa they go through kenya , tanzania , Mozambique , zimbwa to south africa. During this migration they mainly stays in the open branches of the tree or on wires .
They mostly made nests in the abandoned nests or make nest in the other prey birds nest or in the hollow tree space . They breed in may month and starts for the travel southwards in the winter times around october month . they cover this huge distance and then stayes in Africa for couple of months . After that they comeback to their home when winter over in seiberia .
They are heavely hunted in Nagaland in 2012 . This news comes in newspaper . Then after govt takes steps and teach the villagers to conserve them . Now this villagers converted to conservationist rather than hunter . They also hunted for meat in east africa .
How to reach pangti village nagaland ?
Nearest rail way station to this village is Jorhat (assam ) and dimapur (Nagaland) .
This village is situated 80 km from the district head quarter Wokha . Which is the near by city from this village . The nearest city from pangti village is jorhat (129 km ) and dimapur is 214 km . Most probably there should be a shared jeep , that will reach there in the winter season . when this migratory come here for resting here .
Summary :
This Amur Falcon birds makes bird watching tourism in this Pangti village . Lots of photographers gathered there to make a photo of this rare migratory bird .
