Chiuluan2
- IMPHAL — One of the two satellite-tagged Amur
Falcons (Falco amurensis) ‘Chiuluan2,’ named after a village in Manipur’s Tamenglong
district, would be soon crossing the Arabian Sea on its return migration from
Africa, a Wildlife Institute of India (WII) scientist said.
- The WII scientist R Suresh Kumar, who is monitoring the
bird’s migratory route, said that Chiuluan2 started the return migration on
April 8 and has arrived in Kenya having covered 3000km. The next leg of the
journey - an oceanic crossing – is expected to start in 10 days.
- He also informed that the bird spent 46 out of 114 days in
Botswana's central Kalahari Desert during its time in Southern Africa.
- On the other satellite-tagged falcon, the scientist who had
radio-tagged more than 10 Amur falcons in the past few years, said, “We have
lost Gwangram…she stopped transmitting. The transmitter stopped working on
February 1 this year. The last location was Kenya.”
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- On November 8 last year, the Manipur Forest department and
local residents released two Amur falcons—Chiuluan2 and ‘Gwangram—after
radio-tagging them with satellite transmitters. The aim was to study the
migratory routes of these birds and the environmental patterns from Tamenglong.
- Chiuluan2, a male Amur falcon and Gwangram, a female, are
named after two roosting villages of the Amur falcons in Tamenglong district.
