16 Oct- Raptor Migration Update (Thoolakharka Nepal)
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| Bearded Vulture (16 Oct) |
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| Booted Eagle- Dark Morph (16 Oct) |
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| Northern Hobby (15 Oct) |
16 Oct is the 32nd day of Raptor Migration Count in
Thoolakharka Nepal. Although we passed 32 days in the watch site the number of
migrating raptors is still low (Approximately 1000 birds), however the diversity
of the raptors is high (total 24 species). Thoolakharka is the famous site for
Steppe Eagle migration around 10000 and it’s a beginning for this species that
is the cause for small number for this time period. If we compared with the
last year data the number of some species like OHB, Black Eared Kite, Northern
Hobby and Common Kestrel is very low, we presume this is due to several causes
like change of weather pattern (tropical rainstorm and late monsson), climate
change or some problem on their population (bad year for the breeding).
In this time of the year we are seeing OHB (mostly juvenile
and females), Booted Eagle (mostly dark), Northern Hobby, Common Kestrel,
Lesser Kestrel, Northern Sparrowhawk, Shikra, Steppe Eagle, White-rumped
Vulture, Himalayan Vulture etc. We hope these species will be continued for coming
days also and the number of the Steppe Eagle and Himalayan Vulture will be increased.
Other birds comes on migration were
Red-rumped and Barn Swallows and approximately 20,000 swallows (mainly
red-rumped –approx 18,000) passed on previous days. Now the migration of
swallows is going down --- almost no birds for last few days.
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Species
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Total
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Oriental Honey-buzzard
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255
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Common (Himalayan) Buzzard
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30
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Long-legged Buzzard
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0
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Upland Buzzard
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0
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Unidentified Buteo
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0
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Northern Sparrowhawk
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26
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Northern Goshawk
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1
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Shikra
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9
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Unidentified Sparrowhawk
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1
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Steppe Eagle
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20
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Booted Eagle
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40
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Short-toed Eagle
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0
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Crested Serpent-eagle
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6
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Pallas's Fish Eagle
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0
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Imperial Eagle
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0
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Indian Spotted Eagle
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0
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Greater Spotted Eagle
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0
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Bonelli's Eagle
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7
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Mountain Hawk-eagle
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7
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Golden Eagle
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0
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Unidentified Eagle
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1
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Black Kite
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201
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Black-Eared Kite
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35
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Osprey
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2
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Hen Harrier
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1
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Eastern Marsh Harrier
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0
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Pallid Harrier
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2
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Unidentified Harrier
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3
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Peregrine Falcon ssp. calidis
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9
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Saker Falcon
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0
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Eurasian Hobby
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77
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Amur Falcon
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6
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Lesser Kestrel
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17
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Common Kestrel
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120
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Unidentified Falcon
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6
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White-rumped Vultrue
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82
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Egyptian Vulture
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14
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Himalayan Vulture
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20
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Cinereous (Black) Vulture
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1
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Eurasian Griffon
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0
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Unidentified Vulture
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0
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Unidentified Raptor
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2
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Total
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1001
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