{"id":310590,"date":"2025-11-27T16:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/310590\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T16:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:39:10","slug":"satellite-tagged-amur-falcon-from-manipur-reach-africa-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/310590\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite-tagged Amur Falcon from Manipur reach Africa in a week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Published on: Nov 27, 2025 08:08 pm IST <\/p>\n<p>    The speed of radio-tagged Amur falcons this year could be increased because of the favourable oceanic winds, said a Manipur forest official   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/aiStar.gif\" height=\"24\" width=\"24\" alt=\"AI Summary\" data-amp-auto-lightbox-disable=\"\"\/> AI Quick Read     <\/p>\n<p>IMPHAL: Apapang, a male Amur Falcon (Falco amurensis) radio-tagged in Manipur\u2019s Tamenglong district, has made a flight of 6,100 km to Kenya in a week after crossing the Arabian sea, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/As-per-the-latest-satellite-data-of-their-migrator_1764261308812.jpg\" alt=\"As per the latest satellite data of their migratory journey, Amur Falcon named Apapang has reached Zambia in Africa. (Sourced)\" title=\"As per the latest satellite data of their migratory journey, Amur Falcon named Apapang has reached Zambia in Africa. (Sourced)\"\/>   As per the latest satellite data of their migratory journey, Amur Falcon named Apapang has reached Zambia in Africa. (Sourced)    <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarlier radio-tagged Amur Falcons took not less than ten days to reach Kenya (from Manipur) as they took four to five days only to cross the Arabian sea. But this time, Apapang reached Kenya on November 18 after it was released from Manipur (on November 11),\u201d said Divisional forest officer (DFO) Kharibam Hitler Singh of the state\u2019s Tamenglong forest division, who had been monitoring the bird\u2019s migratory route.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe speed of Apapang might have been increased because of the favourable oceanic winds or the bird flies faster,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Three satellite-tagged Amur Falcons, world\u2019s longest flying migratory birds, called \u2018Apapang\u2019, \u2018Ahu\u2019 and \u2018Alang,\u2019 named after a roosting site and two rivers-Barak and Irang- in Manipur\u2019s Tamenglong district, started their migratory journey soon after being radio-tagged with satellite transmitters from Chiuluan village in Tamenglong district on November 11.<\/p>\n<p>Apapang is an adult male falcon while Alu and Alang are females.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApapang seems to be the fastest among these birds,\u201d the forest official added.<\/p>\n<p>This remarkable migratory journey showcases the endurance of these tiny migratory birds and is one of the record flights for raptors of this size.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow Apapang has reached Zambia while Alang is in Tanzania, as per the latest satellite data of their migratory journey. But Ahu is still at the horn of Africa. It is not making much movement. Let us pray for its safety,\u201d the official further added.<\/p>\n<p>The radio-tagging programme of Amur Falcons was taken up for the first time in Tamenglong district in November 2018, in a move to conserve wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763347207_609_story_trending@2x.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/>                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on: Nov 27, 2025 08:08 pm IST The speed of radio-tagged Amur falcons this year could be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[5684,138765,17645,49,48,138766,90205,138767,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-310590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-amur-falcon","10":"tag-birds","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-manipur","14":"tag-migratory-birds","15":"tag-radio-tagged","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}