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- Cyclone Ditwah brought two female Amur Falcons to Point Calimere, Tamil Nadu, disrupting migration.
- Amur Falcons typically migrate about 40,000 km from southeastern Siberia and northern China to southern Africa, usually via Gujarat and Maharashtra.
- Previous cyclones redirected the species to this area.
- S. Sivakumar of BNHS notes that cyclones can alter migratory routes, citing the 2020 sighting and the November 2024 Cyclone Fengal.
