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Balearica regulorum


Balearica regulorum
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Copyright: Lucas Aguilar (laguilar) Silver Note Writer [C: 0 W: 0 N: 54] (181)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-09-17
Categories: Birds
Camera: Olympus Camedia C-765 UZ
Exposure: f/3.5, 1/60 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2005-10-05 3:39
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[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [Spanish]
CROWNED CRANE


Class: Birds
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Gruidos
Length: 115 cm
Wing folded: 54-66 cm
I weigh: 4-7 Kg
Distribution: tropical Africa, to the south of the Sahara
Habitat: Shore of the rivers
Nourishment: Omnivorous
Putting: 1-3 eggs
Period of incubation: 4 weeks


Description:

It is known of form mistaken as crane of the Balearics. It is recognized easily by the yellowish bun gilded with black splashes, which it possesses in the píleo. The plumage is black, the white wings, the bigoteras of pink color. It walks erecta with the a little curled back and the plume erected. It advances to slow steps, but if it is prosecuted it can reach big speeds. It flies slow, fluttering safely, with the stuck-up neck and the lazy duster backward. When it is excited it jumps and expands the wings. His shout is acute and strident and 2 Kms. of distance is heard.


Nourishment:

Small reptiles, seeds and other vegetable substances.


Reproduction:

The epoch of reproduction depends on the locality, but in general it is in the habit of being from August to May. They construct the nest in swampy area with rushes and fragments of marshy plants. Sometimes they place the nest in the glasses of the trees.


Customs and social life:

They live in couples or flocks, in the shores of the rivers. In the epoch of the rains they live in couples, whereas on the remaining stations there are grouped in flocks of more than one hundred of individuals that sometimes, they coexist with other gruidos, as common cranes and damsels. His daily life is very regular: the dawn they leave the places where they have stayed and go to the steppes in search of food; later they move to the banks of sand of the rivers, where they drink and clean his plumage: on having got dark the flocks are in two places at the same time in minor groups that fly to his night refuges. They pass the night put in the foliage of the birds.


State of conservation:

Not threatened, frequent species in many parts of Africa. In captivity they reach a high degree of domesticity, being a very frequent bird in the zoological gardens.

From the zoo of Jerez de la Frontera.
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Hello Lucas

Love the head gear on this bird. Good colours and POV. TFS.

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