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crane
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crane
large, gray, brown and white, long-legged, long-necked birds, with a loud raucous call. Includes Ballearica spp. (e.g. B. pavonina, the eastern crowned crane), grus, Bugeranus spp. and Anthropoides spp. (e.g. A. virgo, the desmoiselle crane).


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While I scanned the lake to identify the feathered visitors, a spectacular V-shaped formation of a few thousand demoiselle and common cranes flew in and landed on the lake.
Best of all though, were three common cranes flying south-east.
The crowning glory has to be a pair of common cranes ( birds that have not been recorded breeding in the UK for 150 years.
 
 
 
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