Blue crane  (Grus paradisea)

Two week old blue crane chick

© Rod Williams / naturepl.com

Blue cranes with chicks

© Per Smitterberg

Close up of a blue crane

© Martin Harvey / www.nhpa.co.uk

Blue crane head detail

© Pete Oxford / naturepl.com

Blue crane

© Nigel J. Dennis / www.nhpa.co.uk

Blue crane in arid habitat

© Tony Heald / naturepl.com

Blue crane in grassland

© Peter Chadwick

Blue crane pair

© Roland Bischoff

Blue crane feeding

© Martin Harvey / www.nhpa.co.uk

Blue crane preening

© M. Watson / www.ardea.com

Blue crane performing courtship display

© Martin Harvey / www.nhpa.co.uk

Blue crane courtship display

© Roland Bischoff

Blue crane courtship dance

© Roland Bischoff

Blue cranes in grassland

© Nigel J. Dennis / www.nhpa.co.uk

Blue cranes feeding next to sheep

© Richard Du Toit / naturepl.com