Bar-Headed Geese Satellite Tagging in Narayani River, Chitwan National Park, 2005

Two Bar-Headed Geese was tagged using leg noose, fitted with satellite back-pack and also a neck-collar, on February 2005. One of the bird had a wing injury while trapping, hence kept in in an enclosure for two weeks to recover. Bothe the birds flew and nested in the lake about 500 km north of Mount Everest. The return journey was in November, flew much further South in India, one in Bihar State and one in Uttar Pradesh State.

Bothe tagged geese flew to breeding point in Tibet/China, but their return journey was further south and south west than than the tagged point Narayani River.