Sentences with phrase «crowned crane»

Mahem Guest House offers comfortable accommodation in a country - style home named after the stately crowned crane found in the region.

Other crane species that can be seen include the endangered crowned crane.

South Africa is home to three species of crane — the blue crane, grey crowned crane and the wattled crane.

Red crowned cranes at the Yang - Cheng (Salt City) Bioreserve on China's east coast.

This may provide one clue as to why efforts to reintroduce red - crowned cranes from captive breeding programs have been largely unsuccessful.

Today those paddies have become barely discernible, transformed into pockets of marsh, and the new occupants of these lands arrive as dazzling white squadrons of red - crowned cranes that glide over the bulrushes in perfect formation, touching down so lightly that they detonate no land mines.

They are a varied 21 species with the most popular residents being the African Black Footed Penguins and African Crowned Cranes.

Bosch Hoek Lodge is located in the picturesque Midlands of KwaZulu - Natal, set in a tranquil setting surrounded by diverse shrubbery and trees as well as inquisitive vervet monkeys, grey - crowned cranes, bushbuck and...

East African Crowned cranes are spectacular birds, sporting a rather interesting «crown» of feathers on their heads along with other beautiful plumage.

East African Crowned cranes, a subspecies of the Grey Crowned cranes, are endangered due to habitat loss and degradation from human activities including due pesticide use, overgrazing by livestock, drainage of their wetland breeding areas and drought.

Not exact matches

At a press conference that afternoon Wake Forest's Bones McKinney, the last of the whooping cranes, took a long slug from a Royal Crown Cola, flashed his wild red socks, fluttered his arms unhappily and said of his semifinal round opponent, Ohio State, that «I'd take most any player they've got and use him instead of mine.»

Known formally as the Southern KwaZulu Natal Birding Route its list reads like a who's who of the endangered and rare bird sightings, boasting all three of the country's crane species as well as the chance of sighting a crowned eagle in the oNgoye Forest, the globally threatened blue swallow, and the endangered Cape parrot in the Creighton Valley's mist belt forests and grasslands.