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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.

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.

* 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.

Any posse riding down the street to demand Blue Throat's surrender would be wiped out with one deadly burst of fire.

Blue ribbon for one dozen white eggs was taken by Nyberg.

Ming Tsai, the owner of the Blue Ginger restaurant in Wellesley, Massachusetts, said that American Chinese restaurants typically try to have food representing 3-5 regions of China at one time, have chop suey, or have " fried vegetables and some protein in a thick sauce ," " eight different sweet and sour dishes ," or " a whole page of 20 different chow meins or fried rice dishes.

The Silver Sands are located on the East side of the village, and are one of Scotland's seven " Blue flag " awarded beaches, which denotes an exemplary standard of cleanliness, facilities, safety, environmental education and management.

The original team was christened the Blue Angels in 1946, when one of the pilots came across the name of New York City's Blue Angel Nightclub in The New Yorker magazine ; the team introduced themselves as the " Blue Angels " to the public for the first time on 21 July 1946, in Omaha, Nebraska.

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.

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

Two 1571 clones appeared, one from Oceanic and one from Blue Chip, but legal action from Commodore quickly drove them from the market.

Initially led by John Haslet, Delaware provided one of the premier regiments in the Continental Army, known as the " Delaware Blues " and nicknamed the " Blue Hen's Chicks.

The Blue Men play a short snippet of the show's theme song, and one dons Doraemon's beanie.

Paul Chambers ( who worked with Miles Davis on the famous Kind of Blue album ) achieved renown for being one of the first jazz bassists to play bebop solos with the bow.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

To this day, The Thin Blue Line is one of the most critically acclaimed documentaries ever made.

* In December 2001, the United States ' National Film Preservation Foundation announced that Morris's The Thin Blue Line would be one of the 25 films selected that year for preservation in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress, bringing the total at the time to 325.

Violet Blue, an author, described this website as becoming " the new ' tubgirl ' and goatse all in one disgusting moment of choco-poo-love " in a San Francisco Chronicle article.

She has three children, one from each husband: Wade Hampton Hamilton ( son to Charles Hamilton ), Ella Lorena Kennedy ( daughter to Frank Kennedy ) and Eugenie Victoria " Bonnie Blue " Butler ( daughter to Rhett Butler ).

Schmitt claims to have taken the photograph of the Earth known as The Blue Marble, one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence.

The Blue Mountains rise to these elevations from the coastal plain in the space of about, thus producing one of the steepest general gradients in the world.