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Bar-headed Goose
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- The bar-headed goose (Anser indicus) is considered to be one of the world’s highest-flying birds.
- They are Native to Central Asia.
- This species is capable of flying through the passes of high mountains at an altitude of 12,000 to 14,000 feet.
- It spends the winters in South Asia, as far south as peninsular India. It migrates south from Tibet, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia before crossing the Himalayas.
- The goose migrates more than 1,609 km in a single day.
- Over the past few days, around a thousand bar-headed geese flocked to the Odisha’s Rushikulya river.
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