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Hooded Crane (Grus monacha) video
A large concentration of feeding birds, including also many White-naped Cranes, and suddenly many of them taking off.
- Recorded 31 January 2010
- Added to IBC 1 year 47 weeks ago
- Josep del Hoyo
- Location Arasaki Crane Reserve, Izumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan (Monotypic species).
- Duration 40 sec
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We don't know the reason why many birds took flight; we had been a long time watching and videoing them from a fence where there are normally observers and the birds are used to them.