The goose’s high-altitude flights have been a biological mystery for decades. A mountain climber spotted a bar-headed goose overhead while summiting Mount Everest back in 1953, according to Science.

A goose found high on the slopes of the 14,000 ft Mt Shasta in California’s Cascade Mountains was rescued and returned to a local pond by rangers, the Shasta-Trinity National Forest said on January 12 ...

Notable sightings included the bar-headed goose, known for its incredible high-altitude migration, the northern shoveler with its shovel-shaped bill, and the common pochard, among others ...