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In the shallow pool outside the Dzong were swimming bar-headed geese and ruddy shelducks, with families of young birds, all as tame as domestic poultry.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth

Here we found a colony of white-rumped swifts nesting high up in cliffs and ruddy shelducks nesting in holes among the loose boulders below.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth