{"id":670873,"date":"2026-01-03T09:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/670873\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T09:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:28:15","slug":"how-indias-nagaland-became-the-falcon-capital-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/670873\/","title":{"rendered":"How India&#8217;s Nagaland became the &#8216;falcon capital of the world&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/life-arts\/life\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Life<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Once hunted, the migratory Amur falcons are now safe in the state thanks to conservation efforts<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"Pic10_male Amur falcon.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A close-up of an adult\u00a0female Amur falcon, taken in the wetlands off Aree Old village\u00a0in the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland. (All photos by Anne Pinto-Rodrigues)<\/p>\n<p>ANNE PINTO-RODRIGUES<\/p>\n<p>January 3, 2026 07:58 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">PANGTI, India &#8212; Bird-watching guide Janbemo Odyuo is piloting a small wooden canoe through a wetland off Aree Old village, in the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, accompanied by two European bird-watchers who have come to see the migratory Amur falcon (Falco amurensis).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Life Once hunted, the migratory Amur falcons are now safe in the state thanks to conservation efforts A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[99433,13180,728,12663,9984,48647,192204,70,16,15,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-670873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-became","9":"tag-capital","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-falcon","12":"tag-how","13":"tag-indias","14":"tag-nagaland","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115830463108165028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}