Thursday, July 10, 2014

DAY 316: BLUE CRANE 2 - & POWER LINES




Some of the Blue Crane’s movements are still a mystery to conservationists - and this species is being seriously threatened by high mortalities from collisions with power lines and electrocutions on pylons.   

As a result, its conservation status is vulnerable and there are only about 25,000 of these beautiful birds left in South Africa.  Past populations were estimated at about 1000,000 individual birds.

(Cape Argus report 2 July 2014)

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