All photos: Sanjay MishraA Mongolian raptor with a radio transmitter fastened between its wings has landed in southern Nepal on Thursday night.
Children found the Mongolia golden Eagle grounded in a field, and called police when they spotted equipment strapped to its back and a metal ring around its leg with the inscription: oxnith.lab, nst.biol,mongolia 271.
Police have sent the eagle to the District Forest Office, where head Dirgha Koirala said his office was investigating the radio transmitter that was equipped with a small solar collector.
Nepal’s foremost ornithologist, Hem Sagar Baral explained that this species of endangered Golden Eagle usually migrates from Mongolia across the Himalaya to Nepal every winter enroute to Africa. He said the radio transmitter was probably installed by Mongolian conservationists to study the bird’s habits and migratory path.
Sanjay Mitra in Rautahat