Grey Crowned Crane courtship dance

This short video captured the courtship display of a Grey Crowned Crane in Murchison Falls N.P. (Uganda) on August 2012.

[giuliettagalli-atkinson]

In mid 1950s we were living in Uganda and one day a crested crane flew into our garden and stayed freely for about a year, coming and going. It liked the roof top of our house which was covered by a bougainvillea. When it saw mum, it would fly down and dance around her as in this film and it seemed to adapt its dance according to the colour of her skirt. When we drove the 33 miles to Kampala to shop, it would fly with us, for a while before turning back to wait for us at home and I'd lean out of the passenger window to watch him flying over us, calling out to him 'Ciccio' and waving. On one such day, it hadn't returned and so we went looking for it. We asked in the nearby villages to no avail. It went as suddenly as it'd come and Ciccio has never been forgotten. Perhaps he'd found a proper mate.

[janessalerma]

The fawn In the back is also impressed

[vincentvanderbasch]

This is so awesome, tobad they are so rare these days

[JoeVatalaro]

This is a great video, I'm using it for my project on the grey crowned crane! Thanks so much!

[asiimwegilbert]

These are Crested Cranes not Grey Crested Cranes

[rulisa]

Look up Rwandan Intore dance. It's basically this 😎

[meditation_]

so beautiful and pleasing, don't forget to visit back my brother. success always for you😘😘

[enyaaa]

My home country’s national bird 🇳🇬 ! Too bad it’s endangered

[seriy]

Is there music in the wild as these birds dance? Adding music ruins it unless its meant to be a comedy. People cant stand the silence while watching.

[diegocarrillo]

Questions


1. Did you know that grey crowned cranes live with flamingos?
2. Any videos that have the two birds?

[Dthrow]

Why do they dance are they trying to attract a mate? We went to the zoo yesterday and we named him puff head and he was kicking the tree and then like five seconds later dancing while looking at my mom😂