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This Morning Outside

by Diane Porter

November 13, 2014
International Crane Foundation
Barabo0, Wisconsin

Gray Crowned-Crane

The last crane image in this series is the Gray Crowned-Crane. This African species, close relative to the Black Crowned-Crane, is endangered. The birds are captured as prizes, and their wetland/grassland homes are commandeered for human use.

This female was probably captured as a chick. She does not know she is a crane and takes no interest in other cranes, so she will never reproduce. Here she looked through her fence at me on October 18, at the International Crane Foundation.

I think she is heartbreakingly beautiful, a lady in finery. Would that her species always remain free and wild. Without a fence

Gray Crowned-Crane
© 2014 Diane Porter

—Diane Porter

Other Cranes of the World from this Series
Black Crowned-Crane Wattled Crane Whooping Crane
Blue Crane Siberian Crane Sandhill Cranes

 

Chickadee on hand

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