Magpie eating dead flesh in Ladakh + Chukor

From the archive record

Group of birds in Ladakh. The Pied Magpie is eating flesh from the dead yak, as is the wild cat, but the group of Chukor (Alectoris chukar) partridge are just roaming around the fields, looking for grain and grass seeds. Nestled between the Kunlun Mountain ranges and the Himalayas, Ladakh boasts of innumerable vistas ranging from lakes to mountains and valleys. Located in the northernmost part of India, the region is a dream travel destination for people from all over the world. This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and Digit