#grus grus

[na-bird-of-the-day]

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

[takeapeck]

Come October, come the cranes. And every year, without fail, they make me cry.

[kavohh707]

Next tush - the big feather fluff of a crane.

I admit that this is a moment when the crane fluffed itself up. The normale state is fluffy, but not that fluffy.

The other craned watched the fluffy display and don't they look a bit irritated.

[podartists]

Grauer Kranich | Die Vögel (1913) | Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829-1884) | Biodiversity Heritage Library

[humboldtingthroughlife]

Grus grus & Vanellus vanellus

Réserve naturelle nationale de Saint-Denis-du-Payré, France | January 11th 2025

[snototter]

A pair of red crowned cranes (Grus japonensis) perform a courtship dance in Hokkaido, Japan

by ted smith

[dionysiaproductions]

[gergarnero]

GRULLA COMÚN

GRUS GRUS NOMBRE CIENTÍFICO: GRUS GRUS. LONGITUD: 1,2 METROS. PESO: 5 A 6 KILOS. PLUMAJE: IGUAL PARA AMBOS SEXOS. MIGRACIÓN: MIGRATORIO. ESTADO: COMÚN. UBICACIÓN: EUROPA, ASIA, NORTE DE ÁFRICA. AL IGUAL QUE OTROS MIEMBROS DE SU FAMILIA, LA GRULLA COMÚN ES UN AVE GRANDE Y ELEGANTE, CON EL PICO LARGO Y LAS PATAS TAMBIÉN LARGAS; DE COLOR GRIS CON LA CABEZA Y CUELLO NEGROS, TIENE UNA RAYA BLANCA QUE…

[kallepihelgas]

Common crane / Sookurg

[addicted2coke-theothercoke]

And then when we can't think of how to start it, we create memes

[c0nn0rsseur]

good cop bad cop

[doctor-disc0]

Why are titles so hard 😭

[kavohh707]

Some more crane pictures. In the last one you can see the crane scream and yes, they really scream, extremely loud.

(A bit blurry because it was still dawn and rather dark)

[herpsandbirds]

Red-crowned Cranes (Grus japonensis) raising a ruckus together, family Gruidae, order Gruiformes, Hokkaido, Japan

Vulnerable.

photograph by John Williams

[heisoark]

I have this mini headcanon that most of the SWORD members are fans of specific strawhats for different reasons and I think it would be funny because they’d then argue who the best strawhat via biasness

[that-theaven]