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Hill pigeon (Columba rupestris)  
   

Hill pigeon (Columba rupestris)

the white tail is how you tell them apart from feral pigeons...
Ladakh, part two

November 3rd 2016
At 8am on the 30th October, on my fifth day in Ladakh, I was finally on my way to the Rumbak Valley look for snow leopards. I took a taxi for an hour out of Leh, along a road sliced from the sheer sides of river valleys, past the four or five buildings which make up Zingchan (the end of the road until one or two years ago) and came to a halt at "the first campsite" in Rumbak Valley, where the s ... read more
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Indian Flag The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more
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