India, May 5 -- A radio-tagged Amur falcon from Manipur has completed a remarkable 4,700-km non-stop flight from Somalia to central India in just 95 hours, crossing the Arabian Sea without a break, officials said.

Apapang, an adult male Amur falcon (Falco amurensis) tagged in Tamenglong district, ended its continuous flight on Monday, said Dr Suresh Kumar of the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, who has been tracking its migratory route, along with former divisional forest officer Kh Hitler of Tamenglong forest division.

"Apapang ended its nonstop flight on Monday," Kumar said. "Apapang, to his record, did a nonstop flight from its Somalian stopover of nearly 4,750 km in a span of 95 hours."

Three satellite-tagged Amur falco...