{"id":8486,"date":"2018-09-03T18:44:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T22:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8486"},"modified":"2018-09-03T18:44:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T22:44:54","slug":"sandhill-crane-shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8486","title":{"rendered":"Sandhill Crane Shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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~SANDHILL CRANES interacting in the black dirt.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Over the weekend, I was lucky enough to catch up with the two SANDHILL CRANES \u00a0that have been spending some time in our area. Not only that, I watched from my car as the two birds interacted for approximately 5 minutes. They were very vocal while this was going on; you can see in nearly every photo, one or both of their bills are open. I did some research on the internet and found out that SACRs\u00a0mate for life, choosing their partners based on dancing displays. But, the timing doesn’t seem right for this, so I kept looking and found a passage on the National Geographic website<\/a> that indicated that they “also dance, run, leap high in the air and otherwise cavort around\u2014not only during mating but all year long”. \u00a0It was awesome to see it; here are a number of photos from that five minutes.<\/p>\n

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  Over the weekend, I was lucky enough to catch up with the two SANDHILL CRANES \u00a0that have been spending some time in our area. Not only that, I watched from my car as the two birds interacted for approximately 5 minutes. They were very vocal while this was going on; you can see in … Continue reading “Sandhill Crane Shenanigans”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,6,19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-rarities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2cS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8486"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8512,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions\/8512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}