Factoid of the day

I just saw some geese headed east in a Vee shape looking for a place to land for the night(it's sunset). We see these all the time in the US but this is the first time I've seen a flock passing by here. I'm still trying to figure out what type they were.

we are on the East Asia Australasian flyway...so presumably they are on their way up to Siberia or western Alaska.

so while doing research, I not only found out that the bar headed goose is a high flier, flying over the Himalayas,(Photocredit)



but this factoid:


The highest-flying bird ever recorded was a Ruppell's griffon, a vulture with a wingspan of about 10 feet; on November 29, 1975, a Ruppell's griffon was sucked into a jet engine 37,900 feet above the Ivory Coast-

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