While driving down the West Coast road on Sunday morning, we saw a solitary Blue Crane in a big empty field. As you undoubtedly know, this is our country's national bird. It's a very classy looking bird - gunpowder blue plumage, that does the most elegant courtship dance. I would love to see that!
Blue Cranes are almost entirely restricted to South Africa, but there is a dwindling population in Namibia’s Etosha National Park and a few pairs in Botswana. Their numbers have dropped dramatically there, but seem to be increasing in the southwestern Cape.
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