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Location

Xigera Camp, Okavango Delta
Botswana

Metadata

Make Nikon F90
Lens Nikkor AF 70-300 mm f/4.5-5.6G  
Exposure not available  
Image size 600 x 400 pixels

IOC Names

Deutsch  Klunkerkranich Dutch  Lelkraanvogel
Italian  Gru caruncolata Spanish  Grulla Carunculada

Comments

An adult (right) and an immature (left) Wattled Cranes. The immature has a white (not grey) head until it is about one year old.

Tarboton WR (1989): in The Complete Book of Southern African Birds, Ginn PJ, McIlleron WG, Milstein P le S (eds), Struik Publ, Cape Town, South Africa, p 193.




 
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    29/07/1998

Wattled Crane
Grus carunculata
Grue caronculée
Jean-Michel PAULUS