Guwahati: A study by the Wildlife Institute of India has confirmed the significance of the Northeast Indian region, specifically select sites in Nagaland, as important stop-over sites for Amur Falcons during their autumn migration.
“We believe that prey availability, particularly termites, likely influences stopover site selection by the Amur Falcons in the Naga and adjoining hills,” the study says.
“Morphological examination of the termites resulted in the identity to be the genus Odontotermes. Further based on specific characters, two species: O. feae and O. horni were confirmed to be the termite species in the diet of the Amur Falcons in Northeast India,” the study reveals.
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