A Red-crowned Crane comes in for a landing in a snowstorm. Hokkaido, Japan. This is one of my personal favorite images, and I wanted to share it as I kick this year off with some of my crane shots from Japan. Amazingly, in the 20th century, people in Japan thought this crane had disappeared, but it was not true and they have been brought back from a handful of birds to a breeding population of 1000 now in Japan. They are also found in Korea and China, and the world population is believed to be around 2700 now. So they are still an endangered species, but it shows that with human will, we can save what we care about. Lets spread the concept for this
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