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A wild Whooping Crane dancing - the colors on the top of the legs are transmitters that track their migration paths! Like how they chose colors to match its head! You can even see the antenna.
A few of my own textures were added!
Happy Sliders Sunday!
Florida Sandhill Crane. Florida sandhill cranes inhabit freshwater marshes, prairies, and pastures (Florida Natural Areas Inventory 2001). They occur throughout peninsular Florida north to the Okefenokee Swamp in southern Georgia; however, they are less common at the northernmost and southernmost portions of this range. Florida’s Kissimmee and Desoto prairie regions are home to the state’s most abundant populations (Meine and Archibald 1996). MyFWC
I have a lot of images remaining to process, but wanted to get something posted from my weekend trip to Jasper Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area in northwest Indiana. This location is an annual stopover for thousands of cranes during migration, with just under thirty thousand reported earlier in the week before our arrival. We were not fortunate enough to see them in quite those concentrated numbers at the refuge, but did find large flocks-- ranging in size from dozens to hundreds-- in the surrounding farmland. The weather was variable, but there were times when we had quite nice light for photography, which is not a given at this location.
The parents heard another crane in the area and both took off in that direction leaving the colt by itself. The baby cried and cried. Five minutes later the parents came back and one of them took this position. Everything was ok again for the colt. Sometimes I wonder why the cranes do some of the things they do.
It was fun to try to capture some silhouettes of the cranes as they came in to roost around sunset with the sky ever-changing its hues.
Bosque del Apache, N.M. 12/13/2019.
One of the great thrills in watching Sandhill Cranes as they migrate is when they arrive in great flocks, uttering their raucous cries as they descend from the skies in large numbers. It's just spectacular!
Taken 25 August 2019 at Creamers Field, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Found the coyote stalking the crane and then he seen me and ran away. Maybe it was the cranes lucky day that I came along. Athabasca county Alberta.
A pair of Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis) search for waste grain in a harvested grain crop in the agricultural landscape near Simpson, Saskatchewan, Canada in east central part of the province.
Thousands of Sandhill Cranes stop in the province to rest and feed on waste grain as they migrate south for the winter.
23 September, 2014.
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More Badlands shots later. It's been a while since I've posted any bird images so here's the start of few I'll be posting in the coming days. This eight year old shot was taken in Texas near the gulf coast.
This is one of two remaining cranes that would have been used for unloading / loading the barges
The Driffield Navigation is an 11-mile (18 km) waterway, through the heart of the Holderness Plain to the market town of Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The northern section of it is a canal, and the southern section is part of the River Hull. Construction was authorised in 1767, and it was fully open in 1770
The Driffield Navigation is the waterway extending from the market town of Driffield along the Driffield Canal and then the River Hull southwards as far as Aike.
A bridge to far www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/environment/a-bridge-too-far...
(Grus canadensis) Sandhill Cranes are known for their dancing skills. Courting cranes stretch their wings, pump their heads, bow, and leap into the air in a graceful and energetic dance. This one was tossing a leaf continually into the air - presumably to impress the female.
Interesting Facts:
Although some start breeding at two years of age, Sandhill Cranes may reach the age of seven before breeding. They mate for life—which can mean two decades or more—and stay with their mates year-round. Juveniles stick close by their parents for 9 or 10 months after hatching.
The earliest Sandhill Crane fossil, estimated to be 2.5 million years old, was unearthed in the Macasphalt Shell Pit in Florida.
Sandhill Crane chicks can leave the nest within 8 hours of hatching, and are even capable of swimming.
The oldest Sandhill Crane on record was at least 36 years, 7 months old. Originally banded in Wyoming in 1973, it was found in New Mexico in 2010.
The sandhill crane is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia. The common name of this bird refers to their habitat such as the Platte River, on the edge of Nebraska's Sandhills on the American Great Plains. Sandhill cranes are known to frequent the edges of bodies of water. Wikipedia
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Sandhill cranes (Antigone canadensis, Gruidae) are in the midst of staging for their flights south. Here a couple of birds face off after one invades the space of another.
Notice the head that is just emerging of one bird that is lying down resting in the soybean crop.
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Two 60 tonne overhead cranes, built 1942, in the MotorWorld München - these cranes date back to the time when the building was part of the Ausbesserungswerk München-Freimann.
The building - including these two cranes - is a listed structure.
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