The results indicate that cranes under artificial feeding have their specificities in behavioral pattern and expressivity as compared with wild cranes.
Out in the open in the fine snow of Hokkaido cluster the great white cranes, the black tertial plumes of their broad wings arranged over their rumps like elegant bustles.
In northern China's Zhalong Nature Reserve, a pair of red-crowned cranes have staked out their nesting territory in the stubble of a commercially managed reed bed.