{"id":1392,"date":"2011-06-01T13:36:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T13:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2026-10-01T10:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:54:42","slug":"how-bar-headed-geese-cross-the-himalayas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/2011\/06\/01\/how-bar-headed-geese-cross-the-himalayas\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bar-headed Geese cross the Himalayas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research (by the BNHS and others) on Bar-headed Geese based on satellite-tracking shows that the geese display amazing feats while crossing the HImalayas on migration. They can climb many thousand metres in altitude in only a few hours; and do so without the assistance of tailwinds. Wonderful studies like this add greatly our understanding of Bar-headed Goose migration!<\/p>\n<p>Press coverage:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/1110601\/jsp\/frontpage\/story_14056421.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Wise geese chase sinks a myth<\/a> &#8211; Telegraph (Kolkata)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/2011\/05\/31\/stories\/2011053164301800.htm\">High-flying geese don&#8217;t need winds<\/a> &#8211; The Hindu<\/p>\n<p>The original research article:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.1017295108\" target=\"_blank\">The trans-Himalayan flights of Bar-headed Geese<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite-tracking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/2011\/06\/01\/how-bar-headed-geese-cross-the-himalayas\/\">reveals new information<\/a> about Bar-headed Goose migration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3195,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions\/3195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}