Taking off
by Bryan Keil
Title
Taking off
Artist
Bryan Keil
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The sandhill crane's large wingspan, typically 1.65 to 2.1 m (5.4 to 6.9 ft), makes this a very skilled soaring bird similar in style to hawks and eagles. Utilizing thermals to obtain lift, they can stay aloft for many hours, requiring only occasional flapping of their wings and consequently expending little energy. With migratory flocks containing hundreds of birds, they can create clear outlines of the normally invisible rising columns of air (thermals) that they ride.
The Sandhill Crane flies south for the winter. In their wintering areas they form flocks of over 10,000 birds. One place to observe this is at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, 100 miles south of Albuquerque, New Mexico. There is an annual Sandhill Crane Festival in November.This photo was taken in November at Bosque del Apache.Fine Art America watermark will not appear on purchased artwork.
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February 20th, 2013
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Lyric Lucas
Congratulations, your beautiful artistic work is Featured on the home page of the "Bedroom Art Gallery" group. 7/23/21 l/f
Don Columbus
Congratulations Bryan, your work is Featured in "Coastal Water Birds-Shore Birds" I invite you to place it in the group's "2017 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
Don Columbus
Congratulations Bryan, your work is Featured in "A Birding Group - Wings"! I invite you to place it in the group's "2017 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
Steven Bateson
Bryan Keil the New Mexico Land of Enchantment Group is honored that you chose to submit your work to the group and we are proud to feature your magnificent image on the Homepage in the Featured Images.
Shirley Kathan-Sayess
Incredible photo, Bryan! Congratulations on being chosen to be featured on The Gallery of Interior Design this week. L/F
Dawn Currie
Bryan, Congratulations on your feature in Pure Nature Photography - celebrating the best of our natural world!
Sharon Mau
. . ╰⊰✿ . •.¸☆ ☆¸.• Featured: :: Fine Art Photography :: •.¸☆ ☆¸.• . ✿⊱╮ . . . . . http://fineartamerica.com/groups/fine-art-photography.html
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