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14/11/22 12:38 PM IST

Amur Falcon Festival

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  • The Manipur Forest Authority to celebrate the 7th edition of the Amur Falcon Festival in Tamenglong district, Imphal.
  • The objective of the Amur Falcon Festival is to spread awareness about the protection and conservation of the Amur Falcon.
Amur Falcon Festival 
  • The day-long festival is generally celebrated in the first or second week of November to strengthen human-nature relationship and acknowledge the importance of this small raptor in the lives of people in the region .
  • It was organised in 2015..The festival is not just a place to celebrate but also a place where people from different backgrounds come together and share their ideas.
Amur Falcon 
  • The Amur falcon (Falco amurensis) is the world’s longest travelling small raptors of the falcon family.
  • Amur falcons migrate to their wintering grounds in South Africa, usually arriving in large numbers during October in Nagaland and Manipur besides other places in the northeast India undertaking a yearly journey of about 20,000 km.
  • They leave the region in November after having enough food for their non-stop flight to Africa where they spend their winters.
  • The radio-tagging programme of Amur falcons started in Manipur in 2018 as part of an initiative to conserve wildlife and also to study the route of these long-distance migratory birds and the environmental patterns along the route as India is a signatory to an international agreement on conservation of migratory birds of prey.
Source- Hindustan Times 

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