
Maun Mela fishing festival and traffic near twin bridges in Uttarakhand
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Maun Mela, a traditional community fishing festival held along the Aglar River in the Tehri Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India.
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Uttarakhand's Jatoli village, en route the Pindari Glacier, hosts a Lammergeier or Himalayan Bearded Vulture, one of the most magnificent birds of the Himalaya. Himalayan Bearded Vulture or Lammergeier Order: Falconiformis Family: Accipitridae Species: Gyeaetus barbatus aureus (Hablizl, 1983) Altitude: 4000-7500m The extra limit range includes mountains of SE Europe, islands of the Mediterranean, east to northern China and south to southern Arabia and the Himalaya. It is fairly common in Baluchistan and Sind and throughout the Himalaya from NWFP (Pakistan), Ladakh and Kashmir, and east to Nepal, Bhutan and NE Assam. It is closely related to the golden eagle in most of its habits and ecological aspects. As an original president of the mountain, this giant predatory bird usually live in th
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