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They stand 3 feet high and are 38 inches in lingth.
They range over East Africa, Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Central Tanzania.
Cranes enjoy open country.
They are omnivore, eating plants, worms, snails, insects, frogs, lizards,
mice & young birds.
Cranes are social, gregarious, except during breeding season, when they are shy and wary.
The coutrship display consists of each bird circling around each other with wings half spread.
Often leaping high in the air and also bow low to each other. Cranes display in this manner throughout the year.)
Parents construct large nest of grasses & other vegetation. The nest is built on the ground and
2-3 eggs are laid. The eggs are incubated by both parents for 30 days. Both parents feed young in the beginning and in about 10 weeks, young can fly.
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