blue crane

Learning to Fly

grrlscientist | October 8, 2008

tags: birds, blue crane, Anthropoides paradisea, streaming video Here's a nice video of two courting blue cranes, Anthropoides paradisea. The beautiful Blue Crane is the national bird of South Africa. It experienced a sudden population decline beginning around 1980 and is now classified as vulnerable. The footage in this video was shot by Christian Letruria in South Africa (2008) and the music by the Icelandic band, Sigur rÃ³s. Learn To Fly.

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