Anthropoides paradisea. Blue crane.
Belgium.
Planckendael animal park.
The blue crane is the national bird of South Africa
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Crane
Grus paradisea is near-endemic to South Africa, with small breeding populations also in northern Namibia (c.70 birds at Etosha, isolated but stable9 after rapidly declining in 1980s-1990s) and western Swaziland (c.12 birds)4, and it is occasionally seen in Lesotho11. In South Africa, numbers in the south and south-western Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal have increased as the species has expanded into agricultural areas11 but, overall, the national population has fallen by half since the 1970s, with dramatic declines in many former strongholds, e.g. of up to 80% in Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State and Eastern Cape during the 1980s1,2. The increase in the Western Cape has accompanied the conversion of fynbos and renosterveld vegetation to agricultural land13. The population in the central Karoo region is presently stable13. The population has been estimated at c.25,700 individuals5,7, but more recently at over 25,580 individuals12, with a minimum of 25,520 in South Africa13.
www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/106002792/0
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Anthropoides paradisea. Blue crane.
Belgium.
Planckendael animal park.
The blue crane is the national bird of South Africa
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Crane
Grus paradisea is near-endemic to South Africa, with small breeding populations also in northern Namibia (c.70 birds at Etosha, isolated but stable9 after rapidly declining in 1980s-1990s) and western Swaziland (c.12 birds)4, and it is occasionally seen in Lesotho11. In South Africa, numbers in the south and south-western Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal have increased as the species has expanded into agricultural areas11 but, overall, the national population has fallen by half since the 1970s, with dramatic declines in many former strongholds, e.g. of up to 80% in Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State and Eastern Cape during the 1980s1,2. The increase in the Western Cape has accompanied the conversion of fynbos and renosterveld vegetation to agricultural land13. The population in the central Karoo region is presently stable13. The population has been estimated at c.25,700 individuals5,7, but more recently at over 25,580 individuals12, with a minimum of 25,520 in South Africa13.
www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/106002792/0
Please no invites to mandatory comment/award groups.
And especially NO BIG GRAPHICS.
To admins of of those groups: I will just click OK add it if you take no notice and invite me anyway.
my most interesting on black: www.fluidr.com/photos/lindadevolder/interesting