Cranes
This is a small number of several thousand European Cranes we found wintering in agricultural fields in northern Ethiopia. The ones with their beaks open are giving their wonderful trumpeting calls. Our British breeding Cranes are largely resident but the Russian breeding birds have to migrate to escape the winter. Many winter in Spain but large numbers also winter in Ethiopia, which is the furthest south they go. They used to be much commoner and more widespread in Britain and places like Cranham and Cranfield are named after Cranes.
Cranes
This is a small number of several thousand European Cranes we found wintering in agricultural fields in northern Ethiopia. The ones with their beaks open are giving their wonderful trumpeting calls. Our British breeding Cranes are largely resident but the Russian breeding birds have to migrate to escape the winter. Many winter in Spain but large numbers also winter in Ethiopia, which is the furthest south they go. They used to be much commoner and more widespread in Britain and places like Cranham and Cranfield are named after Cranes.