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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
© 2014 Diane Porter
—Diane Porter
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