#Grey Crowned Crane

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The grey crowned crane is big and fancy, and is the national bird of Uganda.

#bird #grey crowned crane #kenya #crane #plume #todaysbird #fancy #masai mara

[vintagewildlife]

Crowned crane By: Unknown photographer From: Dandy Gum Cards 1969

#grey crowned crane #crane #gruiform #bird #1969 #1960s #Dandy Gum Cards

[psikonauti]

Grey crowned crane (Balearica regulorum) in Tanzania

Photographed by Luis Solano Pochet

#Luis Solano Pochet #upl #photography #wildlife photography #Grey crowned crane #Balearica regulorum #Tanzania #birds #animals #africaa #africa #east africa

[possumnest]

been using my sketchbook more lately 🐓

#my art #bird art #pterosaurs #praying mantis #paleo art #nature illustration #<- who let quetzalcoatlus be so big. who cleared that. #some birds featured here: #american coot #bearded vulture #grey crowned crane #something vaguely cormorant shaped #red junglefowl #marabou stork #snowy egret #blue footed booby #blue heron #ringneck dove #mantis tag

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Animal of the Day!

Grey Crowned Crane (Balearica regulorum)

(Photo by Marco Valentini)

Conservation Status- Endangered

Habitat- Eastern Africa

Size (Weight/Length)- 3.4 kg; 109 cm

Diet- Grasses; Insects; Small amphibians

Cool Facts- The grey crowned crane is an impressive bird to be sure. With a head of stiff, golden feathers and a red throat pouch that can inflate, these cranes are royalty to be sure. Grey crowned cranes mate for life and perform complex dances in the breeding seasons to reaffirm their bonds. Despite being the only crane species to be able to perch in trees thanks to a hind toe, they build their nests on the ground due to the weight of their eggs. Both mom and dad take care of the chicks for up to four months where the chicks separate to start their own families.

Rating- 11/10 (Devoted parents to the end.)

#Animal of the day #Animals #Birds #Cranes #Sunday #January 1 #Grey crowned crane #biology #science #conservation #the more you know #happy new year #hello 2023

[comparativetarot]

The Hermit. Art by ​Asia Orlando.

#Asia Orlando #The Hermit #Major Arcana #Tarot #Animals #Birds #Grey crowned crane #Crane

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contrasting looks

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#my photography #nature #animals #birds #photography #nature photography #birdsphotography #swan #grey crowned crane #black and white #dark academia

[annapolisrose]

"And she walked away, and she walked away, and that was that, and that was that." ~ Helen Oyeyemi

#african crowned crane #grey crowned crane #crowned crane #crested crane #bird #misc #walk away #phtotographers on tumblr

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© 2023 Ursula Paddington

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#grey crowned crane #grey #crown #crane #nature #naturecore #outdoors #zoo #birb #bird #dinosaur #photography #original photographers #artists on tumblr #art #photo art #original photography #adventure #travel #ursulapaddington #photographers on tumblr #red #digital art

[nature-nerd-sarah]

Posting birds until I hit post limit: Grey crowned crane

#animals #grey crowned crane

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Grey Crowned Crane

#grey crowned crane #crane #Balearica regulorum #bird #upl

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Kenyan birds super-set

I am not a birder by any stretch, and struggle to photograph birds (so much moving around! so many branches!). But Kenya is absolutely packed with remarkable birds, and there were a couple of nice birders in our group. So, I learned about lots of birds just by having them around.

Along with the showstopper birds like the lilac-breasted roller, the secretarybird, and the goliath heron, there were hundreds of gorgeous birds where I barely caught a photo, and plenty of less flashy species that were just fascinating to watch. So, here are a few of them. I didn't caption the individual photos, but did try to list them all in the tags.

#bird #kenya #flying #bare-faced go away bird #photographers on tumblr #textless #amadee ricketts #kingfisher #brown-hooded kingfisher #eagle owl #masai mara #grey crowned crane #grey-headed kingfisher #bustard #kori bustard #plover #spur-winged plover #starling #superb starling #sandgrouse #yellow-throated sandgrouse #egret #white cattle egret #todaysbird #hornbill #southern ground hornbill #water thick-knee #white bellied bustard #ibis #hadada ibis

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Grey crowned crane By: Unknown photographer From: Disney’s Wonderful World of Knowledge 1971

#grey crowned crane #crane #gruiform #bird #1971 #1970s #Disney’s Wonderful World of Knowledge

[mintyfox118]

By far my favourite one, dont think many future ones would out shine her 🩷

#pin up #grey crowned crane #crane #i love her #my silly little things #my art #sketch

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RedBubble

I love these birds so much, and seeing their personalities after getting to work with 7 of them in total was amazing!

Black fineliner and various watercolours on A4 cold pressed wood pulp watercolour paper. August 2019.

#grey crowned crane #black crowned crane #bird art #animal art #crane #bird #watercolor #inspired by nature #ghosties art #ghosties traditional art

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Great Egret In the Desert, 2012 This close up, photographed at J.N. Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island in Florida, is juxtaposed against the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley.

The Art of Birds, Revealed Through an Altered Reality

— By Becky Harlan • Published: June 30, 2015 | Saturday April 27, 2024 | All Images Created By Cheryl Medow

At first glance, these birds wowed me. A few seconds later I started to wonder, Are they real?

Well … Yes. And No.

Grey Crowned Cranes Each crowned crane was photographed on an acacia tree near Richards Camp in Masai Mara, Kenya. Mount Kenya was photographed from a Cessna.

Before attempting to explain what’s going on in these images, the artist, Cheryl Medow, might appreciate you taking a similar approach to experiencing her photography as she does to making it. “I don’t think my pictures through,” she says, “I feel them.”

She described this incident to me: Visitors at one of her gallery shows were asking questions about how she creates her work, and she was answering. But then a guest approached her and said, “No, no, no, don’t say a thing. I just want to enjoy these pictures.” It was then that she realized that she was looking for an emotional reaction, for people to enjoy looking at the work without having all the answers.

So please: Look. Enjoy. Feel.

Roseate Spoonbills Each bird was photographed at St. Augustine’s Farm in Florida. This is where they nest in the spring. The waves were shot in Hanalei Bay, Kauai.

Cattle Egret Portrait ”During mating season the cattle egret colors are like a rainbow,” says Medow. This portrait was photographed in Florida, with the pattern of sand dunes from Death Valley in the background.

White Ibis With Fish This white ibis with his seaweed and fish catch were photographed at J.N. Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island, Florida. The background clouds and surf were shot in Hanalei Bay, Kauai.

But if you’re like me, you still want to know the story behind these images. So here goes.

These are real birds, photographed in the wild. They are also pictured in real landscapes. And both parts of the images are photographed by Medow. But they weren’t captured at the same time and often not in the same place.

Why does she go to the trouble of capturing these stunning birds in the wild and then transposing them somewhere else?

Great Blue Heron With Chicks Balancing on a branch, the great blue heron was photographed at the Venice Rookery in Venice, Florida, along with the chicks in a nest. The background was photographed in Bigfork, Montana.

Greater Flamingo I This flamingo was photographed on Isabela Island in the Galápagos in a brackish saltwater lagoon. The clouds were also photographed in the Galápagos on a different day.

It all started because she was photographing birds with a 600mm lens. And when you shoot birds with a lens that long, the rest of the background becomes blurry—the birds wind up being the only thing in the frame that’s in focus. All context is lost. She wanted to put the birds back into an environment, so she began creating composite images.

At first she was just placing the birds into photos of the landscapes where she’d originally shot them. But then she realized she could take it to another level—she could put the birds anywhere and at any scale.

Saddle-Billed Storks This mother and baby were photographed in the Masai Mara Game Reserve. The landscape was shot by plane in the same area, traveling from Sirikoi Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Laikipia to Richards Camp in Masai Mara.

“I’m an artist first, and photography is a tool that I use to be creative,” she says. “When I picked up the camera and the computer it opened up new possibilities for me. I can make the birds much larger than life. It draws attention to these guys that if you just saw them in the wild with the naked eye you wouldn’t see.”

She draws inspiration from the Hudson River School painters. “They took their sketchpads and went out, as I take my camera and go out, and they got sketches of all these different things. And when they went back to their studios and made their paintings, they combined the different elements that they had seen out in the field. So when the normal person went to the Hudson River and looked for the pictures they couldn’t find some of them. And that’s because they weren’t out there in the real world. Even the painters had manipulated what they had seen and brought it together and combined different elements to make their paintings,” she says. “They’re redoing nature in their mind’s eye, and I guess I’m doing that too.”

Reddish Egret This bird was photographed at Little Estero Lagoon, Fort Myers Beach, Florida. The landscape was also shot in Fort Myers at a different time.

Her subjects come from all over the world. Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, South Africa, Los Angeles, New Mexico, the Galápagos, Costa Rica, and Brazil are some of the places she’s traveled to photograph birds. She’ll often photograph at a certain place during a certain season to see, for instance, an egret in its mating plumage. “I’ll pick April and May to go to Florida because that’s when they’re in their mating colors,” she says.

Great Egrets, A Starry Night The egrets were photographed in St. Augustine, Florida, and Devereux Lagoon and Slough, Santa Barbara, California. The night sky was photographed in Hanalei Bay, Kauai.

Some might think that because these images involve Photoshop in their final state that the painstaking work of photographing a bird in the wild is somehow less work. But Medow assures me that capturing these creatures in the wild isn’t for the hurried. “When I go out and shoot birds there’s a real Zen, a meditative state. Patience is something that I think is a wonderful asset to have, and I don’t usually use it in my normal life, so when I go out in the field I can almost zone out. I could sit there for hours waiting for birds to come and go,” she says. “They’re wild. They’re really wild. They can fly away. There’s something about that that’s just intriguing to me.”

#Birds 🐦 🦢 🦅 #Arts #Photography #Proof #Miscellaneous Birds 🦢 🦅 🦜 🦆 #Flamingo 🦩 #Roseate Spoonbills | White Ibis #Great Blue Heron #Saddle-Billed Storks | Reddish Egret #Grey Crowned Crane #Great Egret