# REDIRECT Blue Crane

The Blue Crane is a tall, ground-dwelling bird, but is fairly small by the standards of the crane family.

Of the 15 species of crane, the Blue Crane has the most restricted distribution of all.

The Blue Crane is migratory, primarily altitudinal, but details are little known.

The Blue Crane is partially social, less so during the breeding season.

In the last two decades, the Blue Crane has largely disappeared from the Eastern Cape, Lesotho, and Swaziland.

The primary causes of the sudden decline of the Blue Crane are human population growth, the conversion of grasslands into commercial tree plantations, and poisoning: deliberate ( to protect crops ) or accidental ( baits intended for other species, and as a side-effect of crop dusting ).

The South African government has stepped up legal protection for the Blue Crane.

The Blue Crane is a bird very special to the amaXhosa, who call it indwe.

The Blue Crane is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds ( AEWA ) applies.

* Species text for Blue Crane in The Atlas of Southern African Birds

* International Crane Foundation's Blue Crane page

* Blue Crane videos, photos & sounds on the Internet Bird Collection

* Blue Crane ( Anthropoides paradises ) from Cranes of the World by Paul Johnsgard

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They have also actively participated in joint military operations such Blue Hungwe in Zimbabwe in 1997 and Blue Crane in South Africa in 1999.

Although recognized primarily for The Red Badge of Courage, which has become an American classic, Crane is also known for short stories such as " The Open Boat ", " The Blue Hotel ", " The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky ", and The Monster.

* South Africa – Springbok Antelope, Elephant ( mammals ), Blue Crane ( bird )

** Blue Crane, Anthropoides paradisea

The highveld is home to a number of endangered animals including Straw-coloured Fruit Bats, Africa's largest snake the African rock python ( Python sebae ), Mountain Zebras and South Africa's national bird the Blue Crane ( Anthropoides paradiseus ).

* Austin ( CTA Blue Line ), on the Chicago Transit Authority's Blue Line

There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

Today Ahmed I is remembered mainly for the construction of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque ( also known as the Blue Mosque ), one of the masterpieces of Islamic architecture.

* Audio ( album ), an album by the Blue Man Group

ACM also sponsors other computer science related events such as the worldwide ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest ( ICPC ), and has sponsored some other events such as the chess match between Garry Kasparov and the IBM Deep Blue computer.

Blue whales are rorquals ( family Balaenopteridae ), a family that includes the humpback whale, the fin whale, Bryde's whale, the sei whale, and the minke whale.

The first Blue Angel Flight Demonstration Squadron ( 1946 – 1947 ), assembled in front of one of their F6F Hellcat s ( l to r ): Lt. Al Taddeo, Solo ; Lt.

In 1992 the Blue Angels deployed for a month-long European tour, their first in 19 years, conducting shows in Sweden, Finland, Russia ( the first foreign flight demonstration team to perform there ), Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, the United Kingdom and Spain.

Similarly, hospital emergency codes often incorporate colors ( such as the widely used " Code Blue " indicating a cardiac arrest ), although they may also include numbers, and may not conform to a uniform standard.

Butterflies include Silver-washed Fritillary ( Argynnis paphia ), Dark Green Fritillary ( Argynnis aglaja ), Pearl-bordered Fritillary ( Boloria euphrosyne ), Holby Blue ( Celastrina argiolus ) and Brown Argus ( Aricia agestis ).

In his Girl in a Red Dress ( 1934 ) and The Blue Shirt ( 1935 ), he used modern and innovative techniques for his portraits of young individuals in Harlem.

Quite a few of the names mean " five-six " in different languages, including both the robot Fisi ( fi-si ), the dead Lady Panc Ashash ( in Sanskrit " pañcha " is " five " and " ṣaṣ " is " six "), Limaono ( lima-ono, both in Hawaiian and / or Fijian ), Englok ( ng < sup > 5 </ sup >- luk < sup > 6 </ sup > < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Cantonese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, in Cantonese ), Goroke ( go-roku < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Japanese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, Japanese ) and Femtiosex (" fifty-six " in Swedish ) in " The Dead Lady of Clown Town " as well as the main character in " Think Blue, Count Two ", Veesey-koosey, which is an English transcription of the Finnish words " viisi " ( five ) and " kuusi " ( six ).

Four of the characters in " Think Blue, Count Two " are called " Thirteen " in different languages: Tiga-belas ( both in Indonesian and Malay ), Trece ( Spanish ), Talatashar ( based on an Arabic dialect form < big > ثلاث عشر </ big >, thalāth ʿashar ) and Sh ' san ( based on Mandarin 十三, shísān, where the " í " is never pronounced ).

1980 ), Emmy Award-winning actor ; NYPD Blue and L. A. Law

Then being employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, he proceeded to make two films: the science-fiction epic Dune ( 1984 ), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and then a neo-noir crime film, Blue Velvet ( 1986 ), which was critically acclaimed.

Early songs with disco elements include " You Keep Me Hangin ' On " ( The Supremes, 1966 ), " Only the Strong Survive " ( Jerry Butler, 1968 ), " Message to Love " ( Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys, 1970 ), " Soul Makossa " ( Manu Dibango, 1972 ), Eddie Kendricks ' Keep on Truckin ' ( 1973 ) and " The Love I Lost " by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes ( 1973 ).

Blue Remembered Hills, a television play by Dennis Potter, takes its title from " Into My Heart an Air That Kills " from A Shropshire Lad, the cycle also providing the name for the James Bond film Die Another Day: " But since the man that runs away / Lives to die another day ".

Blue laws may also prohibit retail activity on days other than Sunday.

The law also directed local communities to hold referendums to determine the status and extent of Blue Laws in their respective jurisdictions.

The Blue Angels also visit more than 50, 000 people a show season ( March through November ) in schools and hospitals.

" The Blue Angels ' first public demonstration also netted the team its first trophy, which sits on display at the team's current home at NAS Pensacola.

The term Columbia Basin is used to refer not only to the entire drainage basin but also to subsets of the river's full watershed, such as the relatively flat and unforested area in eastern Washington bounded by the Cascades, the Rocky Mountains, and the Blue Mountains.

There is one bright planetary nebula in Centaurus, NGC 3918, also known as the Blue Planetary.

The team's helmets are also a unique silver with a tint of blue known as " Metallic Silver Blue " ( PMS 8240 C ) and have a blue / white / blue vertical stripe placed upon the center of the crown.

Delft is primarily known for its typically Dutch town centre ( with canals ); also for the painter Vermeer, Delft Blue pottery ( Delftware ), the Delft University of Technology, and its association with the Dutch royal family, the House of Orange-Nassau.

An early bluegrass bassist to rise to prominence was Howard Watts ( also known as Cedric Rainwater ), who played with Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys beginning in 1944.

The interactive-teaching language Blue, forerunner of BlueJ, is also Eiffel-based.

Burnett was mentioned in possible trades with the Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays, and Texas Rangers, with many rumors also including Lowell or Encarnacion.

Blue light is also better for visualization since it is safer than UV ( eye-protection is not such a critical requirement ) and passes through transparent plastic and glass.

He has also designed many card games such as Lost Cities, Schotten-Totten, and Blue Moon, and the cooperative board game The Lord of the Rings.

Lee also plays bass on Canadian rock band I Mother Earth's track " Good For Sule ", which is featured on the group's album " Blue Green Orange ", released in 1999.

It is also an inter-city stop on the Blue Mountains Line.

Haggis-maker MacSween conducted a taste-test which indicated that whisky is a proper accompaniment, and adds that lighter-bodied, tannic red wines, such as those made from the Barbera grape, are also suitable, as are strong, powerfully flavoured Belgian beers, such as Duvel and Chimay Blue.

* 1984 – Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for the Sikhs, in Amritsar.

He also appeared as Dick Burlingame and Charles Lawrence in the 1960 episodes " The Blue Goose " and " Dark Fear " of CBS's anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson.

Some of the prominent landmarks on the engineering side include the Blue Earth Workshop — which, in addition to being among the foremost centres of learning techniques in workshop technology, also has the dubious distinction of having been used by students affected by the naxalite violence to manufacture blow guns, the “ gachchtola ”, the “ jheel paar ”, ashirwad canteen ( now converted into the SURUCHI canteen ), the windmill and the “ green zone ”.