BIRD (DEMOISELLE CRENE)

Scientific Name: Anthropoides virgo
Size : 76 cms while standing
Information :
By the beginning of winter season rows of Demoiselle Cranes appear in the sky and bird watchers start dancing with joy. Blackish coloured bird is generally called as Crane in rural areas. Small mud patches developed in the lakes or by riverside are the resting palces for Cranes during
Afternoon. Hunters are very happy at the sight of Cranse byt farmers start complaining ‘Dear God the evil have arrived’.
From South Europe, North Africa, North and Central Asia also from Mangolia Cranes migrate to India. Cranes destroy the crops of jawar, bajara, wheat, sesum during winter. Hunderds of black-brownish Cranes enter in the fields and within no time destroy the crops. The guards, farmers are helpless. Alongwith grains they also eat insects and snakes.
The neck of full grown Crane is black and thick. White feathers grow behind the eyes. Thin black feathers grow on the chest. Thin feathers and flock of feathers on the ears looks very attractive. As compared to general Crane Demoiselle crane is delicate.
Sarus Crane whose size is about 156 cms. Is popular in India. The pairs of Sarus Cranes are sighted through out the year is our country. Such pairs are seen in east Vidarbha, Nagpur, Bhandara, Gadchiroli and Chandrapur districts where rice fields are plenty.