Did you know that the world's third-highest-flying bird can be found in India? Yes, the Bar-headed goose, which can be found in areas like the Gharana wetlands in Jammu and Kashmir, Assam and ...

Bar-headed geese, known in India as Rajhans, are celebrated as the world's highest-flying migratory birds. Their rarefied flight path – often above 5,000 metres – has long fascinated ...

Bar-headed geese Anser indicus on Terkhiin Tsagaan Lake, Mongolia. This material relates to papers that appeared in the January 16, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, Charles M.

“As these bar-headed geese follow the Central Asian Flyway ... The bird entered the Tibetan Plateau, flying at a speed of 59 to 74 km per hour. On March 9, it took a circular route, probably ...

This was the first time transmitters were deployed on bar-headed geese, the highest-flying migratory birds, to track their precise movement. “The two geese will provide critical data on migration ...