I am pleased to post about the final status of the raptor migration in 2015. Year 2015 was not good in terms of number of individuals as there were fewer records.  So far they have tracked down 33 species of raptors during the migration -2015 with total number of 6,892 individuals. Oriental Honey-buzzard 363 Common Buzzard 116 Long-legged Buzzard 6 Upland Buzzard 4 Unidentified Buteo 3 Eurasian Sparrowhawk 95 Northern Goshawk 1 Shikra 5 Unidentified Sparrowhawk 3 Steppe Eagle 4302 Booted Eagle 76 Short-toed Eagle 1 Crested Serpent-eagle 19 Pallas's Fish Eagle 1 Imperial Eagle 0 Indian Spotted Eagle 0 Greater Spotted Eagle 3 ...

Photo: Golden Eagle (Juvenile bird) taken on 6th Dec 2014-- Thoolakharka Nepal Thoolakharka (Kande) is one of the globally significant raptor migration corridors (Flyway) in Nepal  which is situated in Kaski District, Lumle VDC- 6 and this flyway is used by thousands of raptors that leave the Tibetan plateau and northern Asia, including Mongolia, China and Eastern part of Russia that heading to south in Middle-East or even Africa following the Himalayan Range of Nepal and India. This is the only site in the world where raptor migrates from east to west direction (but other places migration is north to south). Also this is the only place in the world where highest numbers of Steppe Eagles migration can be observed during autumn season.   To find out the total species and number of raptor that use this migration route, their status and migration pattern and age structure of Steppe Eagle, this study was started from 2012. In each year we conduct 85 days of study (Sept 15...