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The Blue Crane ( Anthropoides paradiseus ), also known as the Stanley Crane and the Paradise Crane, is the national bird of South Africa.

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 )

Jean Fardulli's Blue Angel is the first top local club to import that crazy new dance, the Twist.

`` Blue Skies, Brown Studies '' is illustrated with numerous excellent photographs.

* 1959 – Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the much acclaimed and highly influential best selling jazz recording of all time, is released.

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.

However, Hume admits that there is one objection to his account: the problem of " The Missing Shade of Blue ".

Callinectes sapidus | Blue crab was used on the eastern and southern coast of what is now the U. S. mainland.

One of the most famous and popular North American folklore heroes, he is usually described as a giant as well as a lumberjack of unusual skill, and is often accompanied in stories by his animal companion, Babe the Blue Ox.

The first occurrence of the phrase blue law so far found is in the New-York Mercury of March 3, 1755, where the writer imagines a future newspaper praising the revival of " our Connecticut's old Blue Laws ".

Belgian Blue is a breed of beef cattle from Belgium.

The Belgian Blue is named after their typically blue-grey mottled hair colour, however its colour can vary from white to black.

Since the Belgian Blue ’ s bone structure is the same as a normal cow, however holding a greater amount of muscle, causes them to have a greater meat to bone ratio.

The extension beyond Lechmere is in progress and the Red and Blue subway line connection is being designed ; the status of the Arborway Line is unclear.

* Blue biotechnology is a term that has been used to describe the marine and aquatic applications of biotechnology, but its use is relatively rare.

Boone is a town located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, United States.

The smallest penguin species is the Little Blue Penguin ( Eudyptula minor ), also known as the Fairy Penguin, which stands around 40 cm tall ( 16 in ) and weighs 1 kg ( 2. 2 lb ).

In the late 1970s and during the 1980s, Lichtenstein received major commissions for works in public places: the sculptures Lamp ( 1978 ) in St. Mary ’ s, Georgia ; Mermaid ( 1979 ) in Miami Beach ; the 26 feet tall Brushstrokes in Flight ( 1984, moved in 1998 ) at Port Columbus International Airport ; the five-storey high Mural with Blue Brushstrokes ( 1984 – 85 ) at the Equitable Center, New York ; and El Cap de Barcelona ( 1992 ) in Barcelona.

However, when the Scarlet duplicate is shot by Spectrum officer Captain Blue and falls to his death from a tall structure, it returns to life with the consciousness of its human template restored, and is thereafter free from Mysteron control.

Newman's late works, such as the Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue series, use vibrant, pure colors, often on very large canvases-Anna's Light ( 1968 ), named in memory of his mother who had died in 1965, is his largest work, 28 feet wide by 9 feet tall ( 8. 5 by 2. 7 meters ).

In recent years, much breeding work has been undertaken to create more compact buddlejas, most recently the production of dwarf varieties such as ' Blue Chip ' (™) which reach no more than tall, and are also seed sterile, an important consideration in the USA where B. davidii and its cultivars are banned from many states owing to their invasiveness.

Paul Bunyan's sidekick, Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox | Babe the blue ox, sculpted as a ten-meter tall roadside tourist attraction

Quercus douglasii, the Blue Oaks, are medium-sized trees growing up to 15 – 25 m tall, usually with a somewhat irregularly-shaped crown, and a trunk 0. 5 – 1 m in diameter.

It consists predominantly of towering Blue Gum trees ( Eucalyptus deanei, also known as Deane's Gums, or Broad-leafed gums ), with a thin understorey because the tall trees inhibit the growth of ground cover by blocking most of the sunlight.

The New South Wales Waratah is native to areas in the Sydney geological basin, Central and South Coast districts, and in the Blue Mountains ; it grows to about 4 m tall.

According to her 1923 Blue Book of the Screen biography, she was " 5 ' 5 " tall, 120 lbs, with blonde hair and brown eyes, was an outdoor girl who loved activities.

Blue duikers stand around 35 centimetres tall at the shoulder and weigh 4 kilograms. They are the smallest of the antelope family.

It is organized as a 4-story north wing ( 77 East Randolph entrance ) and a 5-story south wing ( 78 East Washington entrance ), 104 feet tall, with masonry walls faced with Bedford Blue Limestone on a granite base, and designed in a generally neoclassical style with Italian Renaissance elements.

Blue has blonde hair and blue eyes, weighs 12. 1 stone ( 77 kg ) and is 6 ft 1in ( 185 cm ) tall.

The Water Margin describes Yang Zhi as about seven chi tall, with red whiskers on the sides of his face, and a blue birthmark on his face, which earns him the nickname " Blue Faced Beast ".

Kelly has since executed many public commissions, including Wright Curve ( 1966 ), a steel sculpture designed for permanent installation in the Guggenheim ’ s Peter B. Lewis Theater ; a mural for the UNESCO headquarters in Paris in 1969 ; Curve XXII ( I Will ) at Lincoln Park in Chicago in 1981 ; a 1985 commission by I. M. Pei for the Raffles City building in Singapore ; the Houston Triptych, vertical bronze planes mounted on a tall concrete at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in 1986 ; Totem ( 1987 ), a sculpture for the Parc de la Creueta del Coll, Barcelona ; the Dallas Panels ( Blue Green Black Red ) ( 1989 ) for the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas ; a 1989 sculpture for the headquarters of Nestlé in Vevey, Switzerland ; Gaul ( 1993 ), a monumental sculpture commissioned by the Institute d ' Art Contemporain, Nîmes, France ; a two-part memorial for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D. C., in 1993 ; and large-scale Berlin panels for the Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin, in 1998.

Kelly's two-paneled Blue Black ( 2001 ), 28 feet tall and made of painted honeycomb aluminum, was commissioned for the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, and the large-scale bronze Untitled ( 2005 ) was commissioned specifically for the courtyard of the Phillips Collection.

Completed in October 1908, this branch route was built to handle cargo that would have otherwise been too tall or wide to fit through the tunnels that crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains between Charlottesville and Waynesboro.