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A selection of external sites with crane photographs, culture, art and music – and don't miss our own Cranes in Flight Gallery».
Other materials located on the Ozcranes site are listed in the Site Map». Please contact the Web Manager to suggest crane-related sites to add, or report broken links. On this page –
Photographers & Art
Images on Ozcranes
If you have a commercial project, or grant funding, please support the people who've allowed us to use their photographs and artwork.
In alpha (surname) order..
| Contributor | Contact |
|---|---|
| JN Davies, HANZAB bird artist | JN Davies |
| Kingfisher Park Birdwatchers' Lodge | Keith & Lindsay Fisher |
| Rob Gray Photography | Rob Gray |
| Glenn Holmes & Associates | Glenn & Jenny Holmes |
| International Crane Foundation | ICF |
| Merritt Images | Peter Merritt |
| Birdway Photography | Ian Montgomery |
| David Stowe Photography | David Stowe |
| KS Gopi Sundar | KS Gopi Sundar |
| Wildlifing | Michael Todd |
Image databases with cranes include the The Oriental Bird Club, RSPB, and International Crane Foundation.
TOP Art
What is it with cranes and pine trees?
← Card sent to the Editor's father from Korea, to celebrate his 80th birthday (cranesnorth)
Cranes have featured in art for thousands of years in many cultures, symbolising long life and fidelity. In Chinese, Japanese and Korean art, cranes are often depicted with other symbols of long life, especially pine trees. This can be taken too literally, researchers say goodwill towards cranes could be better harnessed for habitat conservation, if more people understood that cranes need wetlands not pine trees!
This is movingly discussed by N and C Moores on the Birds Korea website, ‘The Crane in a Pine Tree: The state of wetlands in Korea’ –
Not seeing, who remains to embrace their ancestors' vision of a Crane in a Pine Tree?
Will modern Koreans, who rarely see cranes and confuse them with commmon urban birds like egrets, remember in time?
Art and cranes in India
← Watercolour on canvas depicting Sarus Cranes in the Sanskrit Hindu epic poem, the Ramayana
This painting in the Vijayanagar miniature style by Mr. Kambar, was commissioned especially for the Indian Cranes and Wetlands Working Group (ICWWG) by Sahastrarashmi. It portrays a key event from the first book of the Ramayana, when a hunter is cursed by the sage Valmiki for killing the male of a devoted Sarus Crane pair.
Entrance to Keoladeo National Park, India: ‘In your next incarnation, you might be an endangered species’ (A & A Freeman) →
In Keoladeo National Park, an appeal to cultural values seems not to have saved the Siberian Crane. But people in India are joining and promoting all-India Crane Counts and conservation efforts for other crane species, like this village with a Sarus Crane wall mural. Villagers protect five local Sarus Crane pairs and their chicks, from dogs and hunters.
↓ Sarus Cranes in village wall mural (KS Gopi Sundar)
Crane art links
- ICF Children's International Crane Art
- Origami folded paper crane instructions at Imagitek and at the ICF, who also sell origami books and papers on-line, to raise funds for crane research and conservation
- Children's crane art and drama in the photo gallery of the Siberian Crane Flyway Organisation – click on thumbnails for images.
- Michigan Audubon Society runs an annual CraneFest with Sandhill Crane art and activities
- The Australian Museum has John and Elizabeth Gould's Brolga painting and a nice site on Gould's work as an ornithologist and bird illustrator
- Cranes on Parade, a remarkable public art project in Kearney, Nebraska USA. Thumbnails and larger photos of 2m fibreglass cranes painted in many designs by local artists, in this town famous for mass migration of Sandhill Cranes.
- Annual Sarus Dance Festival in North Carolina
- Download Chinese crane painting from Ozcranes (personal use only)
Crane music
The Red-crowned Crane Grus japonensis has inspired music, art and legend throughout East Asia (International Crane Foundation) →
- Everything about traditional Japanese shakuhachi bamboo flutes and famous pieces like ‘Nesting of the Cranes’
- Crane flutes – made from ulnae of Red-crowned Crane >9,000 years ago: Photos, music, and story from Nature magazine at shakuhachi.com
- Scientific article on bone flutes (Antiquity journal UK), pdf 126kb
- Visit the website of Australian shakuhachi musician and composer, Anne Norman
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