From the archive record
Red-billed Choughs merrily digging in the snow, for food and plant seeds. Choughs belong to the corvid or crow family, and they often live around human habitations but are equally happy living on their own around the high snow peaks! Small birds in snow, Ladakh. Ladakh lies between the Kunlun mountain range in the north and the main Great Himalayas to the south. Ladakh is the highest plateau of the Indian state of Kashmir with much of it being over 3,000 m (9,800 ft). It is one of the most sparsely populated regions in Kashmir. 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 s