Newborn Red-crowned Cranes are approximately 13cm long. BURSCOUGH, UK. THIS RARE birth delighted conservationists by being the first Red-crowned Crane
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Newborn Red-crowned Cranes are approximately 13cm long. BURSCOUGH, UK. THIS RARE birth delighted conservationists by being the first Red-crowned Crane to be hatched at the WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre in Burscough, UK. With only 1, 830 adults left in the wild, the Red-crowned Crane is on the brink of extinction and amongst the rarest cranes in the world. Births of these endangered birds are therefore a cause for celebration. Red-crowned cranes usually lay two eggs which hatch after approximately 30 days. When this time is up a 13cm long newborn crane will emerge. This tiny crane is covered in brown tufty feathers as can be seen in these remarkable images. Pictured close to its mother, the crane will continue to live with its family until Winter when they will inevitably part ways. Some of the images have been transformed into studio-like portraits with the magnificent creatures taking centre stage, being placed on a black background. Gary Cox from Bury, Greater Manchester captured these adorable shots of the newborn chick using his Canon EOS 100D camera. ?I was visiting Martin Mere with my wife and sister, taking photos of all their birds (and otters) when we saw these two rare red-crowned cranes, ? he said. ?One of them stretched its wings out wide and ran, rather amusingly, towards the fence where we were. ?We assumed it was hungry and we had some food, but my sister then exclaimed ?there?s a baby?. ?Sure enough the little crane chick was toddling along with its parent. ?We then wondered if the other parent was actually being protective and not hungry at all. ?It was only afterwards that my sister forwarded me an article from the BBC stating that after several years of infertile eggs there had been a red-crowned crane chick hatched, which is quite an achievement as they are on the red list for endangered species. ?The cranes have been at Martin Mere since 2017 and this was the first successful hatching. ?We felt lucky that we just happened to h