Dear David,
Thanks very much for the Grey Crowned Crane record in Malindi. That's the lowest elevation sighting I know of. The other was an early March 2019 reported from Tsavo East NP (by Viktoria) of a pair with a chick!
This is a very useful record that I take note of.
Wamiti.
On Mon, May 6, 2019, 10:33 <kenyabirdsnet@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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Sun May 5, 2019 10:18 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"David Clarance"
Hi all,
I saw three grey crowned cranes at the Malindi airport at around 6.15 PM
yesterday. I was on my way back to Nairobi. The plane was on the tarmac
waiting for clearance when I saw the cranes about 30 meters away. They were
foraging in the grass and did not seem too bothered by the plane. I would
have taken a picture had I known they were not common there. It is a hard
species to get wrong and I don't think there was anything I doubted.
I wasn't aware of the significance of this observation until I mentioned it
to Colin Jackson and he told me it was unheard off at the coast.
As an aside, I was on my way back from helping Colin and his team organize
a mountain bike race to raise funds for conservation of the Arabuko Sokoke
forest. It went well, all the national teams participated and we managed to
raise quite a bit of money that will go towards families staying along the
forest edge in order to make then stewards of the forest.
Wish you good birding,
David
