(delhibirdpix) Over 200 Amur falcons seen at Phansad WLS near Alibag today

Hi!

Today Pravin Kawale & myself were at Phansad WLS near Alibag, Maharashtra, India. at around 8:00 A.M.

We saw a big flock of birds flying in circle, this is time for migration of Alpine Swifts, without looking through binoculars I screamed Alpine Swifts, but after looking through binoculars we saw they were Amur falcons, the numbers kept on rising as many birds came from east and joined the flock. We could get some shot from of the flock. The flock kept on getting bigger, our rough estimation was about 200 birds. It was mixed flock of Males, females & juveniles.

They gained hight and finally disappeared on west side towards Arabian Sea.

We have been seeing Amurs as a passage migrants but todays sighting was too good.

For people studying migration of Amur Falcon todays GPS co-ordinates are 

18°25.924'N 72°57.128' E 

Thanks.

Dr. Vaibhav Deshmukh

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From: Pravin Kawale <kawale.pravin@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 7:14 PM
Subject: Amur falcon
To: "Dr. Vaibhav" <drvaibhav@gmail.com>


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