Common Merganser female & 8 ducklings - Pangong Lake - Ladakh ~4350m Altitude

P1500498 - Common Merganser female - 8 ducklings

# 184 - 01 Jan '2018 - 17:06 (11:36 GMT)

 

At - Pangong Lake - Ladakh - Trans-Himalayas - ~4350m (14,270 ft) Altitude.

 

Pangong Tso (Tibetan: སྤང་གོང་མཚོ), Tibetan for "high grassland lake", also referred to as Pangong Lake, is an endorheic lake in the Himalayas, situated at a height of about 4,350m (14,270 ft). It is 134 km (83 mi) long and extends from India to Tibet. Approximately 60% of the length of the lake lies in Tibet. The lake is 5 km (3.1 mi) wide at its broadest point. All together it covers 604 km2. During winter the lake freezes completely, despite being saline water. It is not a part of Indus river basin area and geographically a separate land locked river basin.

The lake is in the process of being identified under the Ramsar Convention as a wetland of international importance. This will be the first trans-boundary wetland in South Asia under the convention.

 

Also Know as - (Mergus merganser) Goosander, Merganser, Common Large Merganser, Himalayan Large Merganser (orientalis), Eastern Goosander (orientalis)

 

Wish you all a wonderful '2018

 

Happy birding 💦

 

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