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A black-necked crane festival is held every year in the premises of the Gangteng Monastery on 11 November to welcome the cranes, which start arriving in late October. The festival is attended by a large number of local people. On this occasion, children wearing crane costumes perform choreographed crane dances.
The black-necked crane (Grus nigricollis) is a medium-sized crane in Asia that breeds on the Tibetan Plateau and remote parts of India and Bhutan. It is 139 cm (55 in) long with a 235 cm (7.71 ft) wingspan, and it weighs 5.5 kg (12 lb).
Geranium bicknellii is a species of geranium known by the common names Bicknell's cranesbill and northern cranesbill.It is native to much of the northern half of North America, where it can be found in a number of forest and woodland habitats.
The species with the smallest estimated population is the whooping crane, which is conservatively thought to number 50–249 mature individuals, [5] and the one with the largest is the sandhill crane, which has an estimated population of 450,000–550,000 mature individuals.
A pair of black-necked cranes (Grus nigricollis) foraging. The cranes consume a wide range of food, both animal and plant matter. When feeding on land, they consume seeds, leaves, nuts and acorns, berries, fruit, insects, worms, snails, small reptiles, mammals, and birds.
Geranium sanguineum, common name bloody crane's-bill [1] [2] or bloody geranium, is a species of hardy flowering herbaceous perennial plant in the cranesbill family Geraniaceae. [3] It is the county flower of Northumberland .
Geranium pratense, the meadow crane's-bill [1] or meadow geranium, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Geraniaceae, native to Europe and Asia. [3] Forming a clump up to 1 m (3.3 ft) broad, it is a herbaceous perennial with hairy stems and lax saucer-shaped blooms of pale violet.
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