** Happy World Migratory Bird Day ** The marathon migrant - Amur Falcon / আমুর বাজ (Falco amurensis) ♀ The Amur Falcon has one of the of longest migration routes of all birds, doing up to 22,000 km in a year - from eastern Asia all the way to Southern Africa and back. It also is unusual in migrating over sea and migrates during the night. Migrating birds leave their Asian breeding range and travel to northeast India and Bangladesh, where they fatten up while staging for overland flights over peninsular India. Subsequently, they undertake the longest regular overwater passage of any raptor, crossing over the Indian Ocean between Western India and tropical East Africa, a journey of more than 4,000 km, which also includes nocturnal flight. Migrants arrive in their southern African winter range in November - December and depart by early May. This species is an “elliptical migrant”, and its return route back to its breeding range is largely overland and to the north and west of its southbound route. Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Date: May 04, 2014
Posted on: Sun, 11 May 2014 15:02:17 +0000