{"id":3571,"date":"2021-04-03T13:30:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bubobirding.com\/species\/amur-falcon\/"},"modified":"2021-04-03T13:30:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T08:00:02","slug":"amur-falcon","status":"publish","type":"species","link":"https:\/\/bubobirding.com\/species\/amur-falcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Amur Falcon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amur Falcons have the most <a href=\"https:\/\/india.mongabay.com\/2018\/05\/a-naga-villages-journey-from-hunting-ground-to-safe-haven-for-the-amur-falcon\/\">spectacular congregations and migration<\/a> of any raptor, with a million birds staging in Nagaland on their way to southern Africa, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservationindia.org\/articles\/tracking-the-incredible-journey-of-the-amur-falcon\">round trip journey of more than 20,000 km<\/a> each year. In 2012, it was realised that hunting of these birds was happening on a staggering, unprecedented scale\u2014up to 140,000 of these birds were hunted in a single season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thankfully, Pangti village in Nagaland is also home to the story of a <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@NWBCT\/the-race-to-save-the-amur-falcons-in-nagaland-northeast-india-d0b306892b48\">remarkable community conservation and education project<\/a>, which you can see all about in the video below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Nagaland Amur Falcons\" width=\"816\" height=\"459\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WviDS_jzRWo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an extract from a Bubo Birding webinar about the Birds and Culture of Nagaland. Do watch the recording of the full webinar, and see more of India&#8217;s birds, wildlife, and culture, through our <a href=\"https:\/\/bubobirding.com\/birding-in-india-webinar-series\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"7114\">Birding in India webinar series<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are grateful to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservationindia.org\/\">Conservation India<\/a> for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservationindia.org\/campaigns\/amur-massacre\">Amur Falcon campaign<\/a> , and for much of the content we used in this video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Amur Falcons - Huge Roosting Flock in Nagaland\" width=\"816\" height=\"459\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a9opo2h0_zM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"sp-nam\">Amur Falcons<\/span> have the most spectacular congregations and migration of any raptor, with a million birds staging in Nagaland on their way to southern Africa, a round trip journey of more than 20,000 km each year. In 2012, it was realised that hunting of these birds was happening on a staggering, unprecedented scale\u2014up to 140,000 of these birds were hunted in a single season.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, <span class=\"site-name\">Pangti village in Nagaland<\/span> is also home to the story of a remarkable community conservation and education project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","family":[1437],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubobirding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/species\/3571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubobirding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/species"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubobirding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/species"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubobirding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubobirding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubobirding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubobirding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"family","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubobirding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/family?post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}