Profile
In flight
Waterfowl
Bar-headed Goose
Anser indicus
- legendary
- 75 km/h
- Least Concern
Flies twice a year over the roof of the world, clearing Himalayan ridges above 7,000 meters where the air can no longer hold most birds aloft. Built for a sky almost nothing else can breathe.
- Population
- large and increasing, roughly 97,000 to 118,000 mature individuals
- Habitat
- high-altitude Central Asian lakes and marshes in summer, lowland South Asian wetlands and farmland in winter
- Diet
- grasses, sedges, grain, winter wheat, roots, tubers
- Size
- 0.75 m
- Wingspan
- 1.5 m
