{"id":1740695,"date":"2017-11-06T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walkthewilderness.net\/?p=9639"},"modified":"2024-11-03T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T12:26:00","slug":"grey-crowned-cranes-in-amboseli-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/grey-crowned-cranes-in-amboseli-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Grey Crowned Cranes in Amboseli National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

On an evening game drive in Amboseli National Park, we saw a pair of Grey Crowned Cranes foraging close to the road and we stopped to get a picture.<\/p>\n

I waited till the famous Crown was perfectly spread by the wind and took a few pictures.<\/p>\n

I timed a capture when the Grey Crowned Crane looked directly at me and made that the feature image of this post.<\/p>\n

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Grey Crowned Cranes in Amboseli National Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We got frame filling compositions of this huge Jumbo busy foraging in deep swamp. I especially liked the picture (below) where it turned around in our direction while continuing to pick the fresh grass.<\/p>\n

On a different note, the normally busy ever flying Wire-tailed Swallow was taking a break on a blade of long grass making a lovely portrait.<\/p>\n

Even the omnipresent common Lesser Egret took a moment to pose for us and we finally would like to wrap this post with the juvenile Spider hunter that was constantly following its parent and pleading for food.<\/p>\n

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On an evening game drive in Amboseli National Park, we saw a pair of Grey Crowned Cranes foraging close to the road and we stopped to get a picture. I waited till the famous Crown was perfectly spread by the wind and took a few pictures. I timed a capture when the Grey Crowned Crane […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2208,"featured_media":2197001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Grey-Crowned-Cranes-2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Grey Crowned Cranes in Amboseli National Park","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[8988,5976,1655],"class_list":["post-1740695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-amboseli-national-park","tag-crowned-crane","tag-grey-crowned-crane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2197001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}