Profile
In flight
Birds of Prey
Amur Falcon
Falco amurensis
- legendary
- 80 km/h
- Least Concern
Every autumn, a million of these little falcons funnel through Nagaland, then cross the Arabian Sea in a single non-stop sea-flight to Africa. The longest oceanic crossing of any raptor.
- Population
- large but globally migratory, hundreds of thousands of individuals
- Habitat
- open woodland, steppe, farmland, wetland edges at migration stopovers
- Diet
- large flying insects, termite swarms, small birds, small mammals
- Size
- 0.3 m
- Wingspan
- 0.7 m
