Bar-headed Goose
Hi there 1895
As a Wildfowl (Ducks, Geese & Swan) enthusiast I picked up on your post immediately. Wildfowl were going to be my life's hobby but in the event I went on to do greater 'hobby' things.... My main involvement with Wildfowl was with The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge. One element was the development of a Portable Hatching-Egg Incubator put together in the TBK 'Casualty' hangar at LHR. The incubator(s) were used in a number of 'species at risk' and educational projects, the pertinent one in this case being the transport of live Bar-headed Geese eggs from LHR-DEL in the cabin of a BA 747 and then in similar fashion by Indian Airlines A300 to Kashmir back in the 80's.
I've previously noted the apparently particularly broad wing area of A. indictus and figure that this has evolved to facilitate sitting in that thin air!
Interested to know what 'paper' you were reading and why?!
Sorry if I've twisted the thread some Mods but am sure some will find interesting.
Regards
Rod.