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Cranes (or common cranes) in Europe resemble the sandhill crane of North America, but are somewhat larger and more colorful. Both species share alert flocking behavior, family cohesiveness, grace of movement, and loud bugling calls. If anything, cranes in Europe are even more difficult to approach than sandhills, even though they are rarely hunted. The pictures of migrating groups of cranes were taken in Autumn in the Podlasie district of northeast Poland, near the small city of Bialystok. The solitary crane was at Biebrza National Park, 60 km from Bialystok, in the spring. My friend Marek Konarzewski, who drove us around the region, has much better images of these birds. |
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