A vulnerable red-crowned crane chick ventureed outside at Whipsnade Zoo. The newborn chick walked around with its mother, Blossom, in its enclosure at the zoo. Red-crowned cranes, sometimes known ...

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"We no longer harvest as much as we used to do because these birds eat everything," she told the BBC. Also known as grey-crowned cranes, the birds are predominantly found in Uganda but are also in ...

Red-crowned cranes are attracting visitors to the northern Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido. Photographers in Tsurui Village can snap photos of red-crowned cranes gathering by a river before dawn ...

In this episode, we visit Kushiro in the eastern part of Hokkaido Prefecture and meet a woman who is dedicated to the conservation of red-crowned cranes.

Hokkaido is home to about 1,800 of these birds--more than half the global population of red-crowned cranes, according to conservationists. Most of them inhabit eastern Hokkaido.