{"id":203572,"date":"2022-10-29T00:56:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T19:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=203572"},"modified":"2022-10-29T00:56:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T19:26:06","slug":"amur-falcons-arrive-in-niausa-from-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/10\/29\/amur-falcons-arrive-in-niausa-from-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Amur falcons arrive in Niausa from Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NIAUSA, 28 Oct:<\/strong> Flocks of migratory birds, Amur falcons, arrived here in Longding district from distant Russia on 18 October.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The birds will refuel and repose here for more than two weeks before continuing their long journey to South Africa,&#8221; Deomali Chief Conservator of Forest (CCF) Chimoy Simai informed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Besides Niausa, we have also recorded the presence of the birds in Mintong, Pangchau and Wakka in Longding district,&#8221; Simai, who has been visiting all the roosting sites, said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Every day in the evening, these avian predators get engaged in a feeding frenzy on certain types of termites that surface only on sunny days, Simai said about the feeding behaviour of the migratory birds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The CCF has instructed the Kanubari forest division to carry out an awareness drive to protect the roosting ground of the birds from any human interference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Simai expressed hope that the local people would participate in conservation efforts, &#8220;as it will also create a scope to generate income through ecotourism prospect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a preventive measure, 28 catapults have been seized by the forest department from the nearby villages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The RFO, along with his staff, has been engaged to carefully monitor the migratory birds as incessant rain has severely interrupted the feeding frenzy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 12-member team of chief, GBs, PRI members and students, led by forest officials, will be taken on an exposure tour to Pangti on 7 November.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pangti is the site where migratory birds sojourn in massive numbers and the natives have successfully adopted many conservation methods and scientifically managed the roosting site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correspondent NIAUSA, 28 Oct: Flocks of migratory birds, Amur falcons, arrived here in Longding district from distant Russia on 18 October. &#8220;The birds will refuel and repose here for more than two weeks before continuing their long journey to South Africa,&#8221; Deomali Chief Conservator of Forest (CCF) Chimoy Simai informed. &#8220;Besides Niausa, we have also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-203572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}