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Red-crowned Cranes on Hokkaido

10,000 Birds

An interesting paper compares two different strategies, habitat management (as done in the US for the Whooping Crane) and artificial feeding in the leanest periods (as done in Japan for the Red-crowned Crane ). The most likely reason is that it is just not that attractive to watch – clumsy rather than graceful, labored rather than sexy.