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Sources:
https://seaworld.org/animals/facts/birds/bar-headed-goose/
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30799436
Lovely photos
Can never tire of looking at Lodhi gardens and Tombs...Muhammad Shahs is my favorite. And the geese look so funny! Aren't they smelly? 😬
Thank you for the nature journal! Yes I love how octagonal arches blend into each other. I didn’t smell these geese, but I trust your judgment!
Nice.....so scenic and pretty!
@Ragi I discovered that the octagonal layout central to Mughal, Persian architecture is called hasht bihisht literally eight heavens. At sunder nursery in Delhi, you can find it written on the plaque at Mirza Muzaffar Hussain's tomb who was Akbars son-in-law...think the tomb itself is called chota batashewala...a sweet seller in hindi!?
@peekay thank you for sharing, that’s beautiful. I was trying to research more on Muhammad Shah before posting this story but couldn’t find much. But I hope to learn more because your context adds so much to these photos!
Although the birds from Lodhi garden were shrieking, the bar-headed goose is a hugger.
Every spring, the birds fly from India to the Himalayan range through extreme altitudes, hugging mountainous terrain to save energy. They can fly through temperatures low enough to “freeze exposed flesh instantly” and they never stop flapping their wings, a study found.
The Himalayan flight of the bar-headed goose is the world’s highest altitude migration -- one climber’s seen geese flying over the top of Mount Everest, BBC reports.
The bar-headed geese are considered an integral part of the ecosystem, and their resistance to extreme temperatures could help humans cope better with high altitude and respiratory diseases, according to SeaWorld.
(Although some of these birds have brownish-black bars on their head, I’m not sure if the bar headed goose is among them, as it was hard to tell from a distance. But I included an image of one at the end because they seem cool).
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