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Raptor Migration Summary- Thoolakharka Nepal, 21 Nov, 2013

After many days of constant sun the weather pattern broken and we have more cloudy days since last three days. In the morning the Himalayas almost clear and quickly clouds build up due to the cooling up of saturated air. This making a weather better for the migration. In the last two days Steppe eagle Migration is really peaking up (around 2200 Eagle passed in last two days)- mostly adult birds about 80%. This is really important to have a team work for the aging of eagles, therefore Henk, Bob, Sandesh and me divided our duty, therefore it was possible to age most of the birds that passed overhead. There was also continues steam of eagle from the Himalayas side as we became alert on that. Now we hope to get average of 500 eagles per day for few days.  Beside these we are observing the migration of Cinereous, Himalayan  and Griffon Vulture too.

Raptor Migration Summary- Thoolakharka Nepal, 15 Nov, 2013

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Bonelli's Eagle (Adult) Apologize for the long delay on migration update, this is due to the reason my friend Bob was regularly posting update on the facebook page. Well, the migration is still continuing in this part and we are still waiting for the big day—of course for the steppe eagle. Since last 10 days weather is most sunny and it is almost impossible to see the dot of cloud overhead however in the high Himalayas we can see very little cloud in the afternoon. There was lot of discussion among us because of very slow migration of Steppe Eagle (almost 70% less than last year if we compare with the same date data), some predicted the change of migration route and some said may be population crash. However from yesterday we have a positive hope because number is slowly building up. Total number of Steppe eagle for last three days was almost 45% of this season. This year we had a really long monsoon and there was storm in the east Asia as well, also we saw lot of raining...