“Please enable live tagging of these birds! I would prefer to offload my stress seeing these little war heroes achieving victory rather than swiping Insta reels!” one X user wrote.

The post was about three satellite-tagged Amur Falcons — Apapang, Alang and Ahu — tracked as they moved across continents.

Four months ago, these birds completed one of the most closely followed migrations in recent years, flying thousands of kilometres across India, the Arabian Sea and the Horn of Africa in under a week.

Hello again to all those glued to Amur Watch !The Amur Falcons are rewriting the limits of endurance. From the forests of Manipur, three satellite-tagged travellers Apapang, Alang and Ahu have taken the world by storm. Here is the latest update from their epic journey. You will… https://t.co/IOZsFM0vcbpic.twitter.com/G2IfbxA1Zh — Supriya Sahu IAS (@supriyasahuias) November 20, 2025

Hello again to all those glued to Amur Watch !The Amur Falcons are rewriting the limits of endurance. From the forests of Manipur, three satellite-tagged travellers Apapang, Alang and Ahu have taken the world by storm. Here is the latest update from their epic journey. You will… https://t.co/IOZsFM0vcbpic.twitter.com/G2IfbxA1Zh

As their journey unfolded, people tracked their movement online, watching dots move steadily across a map. Each bird weighed barely 150 grams, yet covered between 5,000 and 6,000 kilometres in less than a week.

The attention they receive today carries a memory of a time when this journey was far more uncertain.

A place they could not cross

Not long ago, this same sky held a different story.

In 2012, in parts of Nagaland, nets were stretched across valleys and the Falcons, exhausted from their journey, flew into them by the thousands. They were trapped in large numbers as they roosted during migration.

They were trapped, then caught, packed, and sold for meat. The scale was staggering. For a species that depends on precise stopover points along a long migration route, losing even........

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