Amur Falcon
Welcome back readers! I just thought that since I haven't really focused on birds of prey in my posts, I'll write one article on a quite mysterious, yet very intelligent and rare bird. This lucky raptor is none other than the Amur falcon. The Amur falcon is one of India's rarest Autumn-visitors. These birds start their journey typically from mid-October to November, to journey to Southern Africa, to spend the Winter. On the way there, they stop in North-eastern India, to refuel themselves with winged-termites, that arrive in states like Nagaland, during this time. These birds have got their name from their breeding grounds near the Amur river, a river that lies between the Russian far-east and North-eastern China. Many other species of animals and birds, like the Amur leopard, are well-known from that region. These birds are often mistaken as similar looking birds called, Red-footed falcons. The difference between these birds are that male Amur falcons have white underwin...