"Yellow billed Choughs (pronounced as 'chuff') flying over the snout of Gaumukh glacier, Gangotri National Park, Uttarakhand, India. The Chough is a member of the crow family, and Choughs are excellent fliers, soaring over mountain winds, thermals and strong air currents. There is a red-billed variant of the Chough known as the Red-billed Chough. In winter, most Himalayan birds migrate to lower altitudes at the foothills. In fact, few birds that we see quite commonly during the winter months across the northern plains and over the peninsula, or even up to Sri Lanka, breed in the Himalayas during the summer months. This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and Digital Betacam. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... wfi @ vsnl.com and [email protected].
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