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A common crane (Grus grus) forages in a meadow in Transylvania, Romania
by Barbara Evans
BOTD: Common Crane
Photo: Thomas Landgren
"This crane is relatively common in parts of Eurasia, but strictly an accidental visitor to North America. Most records have been of birds in migrating flocks of Sandhill Cranes on the Great Plains; these are likely individuals that joined flocks of Sandhills in eastern Siberia, and then traveled with them back across the Bering Strait and south to wintering areas on this continent."
- Audubon Field Guide
Come October, come the cranes. And every year, without fail, they make me cry.
low flying cranes (grus grus) heading south
Grauer Kranich | Die Vögel (1913) | Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829-1884) | Biodiversity Heritage Library
get thee behind me foul fiend