This way takes you through miles of farm land and the largest concentration of blue cranes in the region.

Blue Cranes feed from the ground and appear to rarely feed near wetland areas.

Three blue cranes at that dam.

Are traditional healers contributing to the decline of Blue Cranes in Namibia?

Birdlife includes louries, sunbirds, sugarbirds, blue cranes and swallows.

Opposite, to starboard, the blue cranes of John Brown's, nothing moored alongside the bleak piers but two swans.

Her hull is painted in NUMA's traditional turquoise and white superstructure with azure blue cranes.

Blue Cranes are birds of the dry grassy uplands, usually the pastured grasses of hills, valleys, and plains with a few scattered trees.

The king's messengers wore the long tail feathers of the stately blue cranes in their headdress, token of their solemn mission.

Phase I will also feature kori bustards, common eland, African spurred tortoise, blue cranes, and superb starlings.

Before entering the Tropical America building, there is a mixed outdoor exhibit complete with a waterfall that houses scarlet ibis, Blue Cranes, and local waterfowl.

Just as tall as the crowned cranes but more elegant in pale blue-gray plumage with black wing-tips, blue cranes nest on the ground in hilly grasslands.

The rough-hewn quality of the seaport - visible from the blue cranes of the Bath Iron Works on the eastern end of the waterfront to the scrap metal loading dock on the west - accounts for the city's honesty.

The next morning Mr. Tarboton took us out into the grassy hills that surround Wakkerstroom and showed us the nest of a pair of blue cranes, an endangered species that is the national bird of South Africa.

In fact, as I am a bit of a birder, my excitement at seeing the whales does not dwarf the earlier thrill of sighting doxens of blue cranes (South Africa's national bird), which were feeding alongside cows in the fields just outside the reserve.

It seemed that all the birds of the air had gathered here, from tiny jewelled kingfishers to stately blue cranes, from whistling flocks of duck that darkened the sun in their multitudes to plovers and lapwings that scurried along the water's edge, pausing only to ask the plaintive question, 'Pee-wit?

Nile crocodiles, warthogs, and Stanley cranes mixed with Leadbeater's ground hornbills are the first animals guests encounter.

The Indian muntjacs and Stanley cranes had moved to the Safari Ride and the African spurred tortoises had moved near the orangutan island.

In late March 2013, a new jungle gym for children to play in was built next door the safari skyride, replacing an exhibit that once held Indian muntjacs, Stanley cranes, and African spurred tortoises.