Edinburgh Zoo Help with Bird identification please?

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I've been uploading some of my recent photos in the Gallery and I've hit a brick wall in identifying some of the birds :confused: I normally photograph the display boards if I am unsure but this time I've totally forgotten . . :rolleyes: Can anyone help please?

I think this is one of the Crane's, it was along from the sealions, passed the storks and in with the ibis and a couple of hammerkops.

http://www.zoochat.com/61/crane-71828/

Also this one, I think it might be a Black Stork?

http://www.zoochat.com/61/black-stork-71850/

Many thanks in advance

Terri
 
Hi Terri, the crane is a white naped crane and i saw, and heard it trumpeting in with waldrapp ibis.
And you are correct with the black stork that is in the lower duck pond with the pair of white naped cranes.
 
Yes both IDs are correct (a pity about the injured beak of the Grus vipio, buth boths pics are sharp and fantastic! well done!)
 
I wonder how this crane manages to eat with such a short/broken off upper mandible? Cranes use the bill as a forceps and it can't do that.:confused:
 
When i visited yesterday this bird in with the waldrapp ibis still had a broken beak, as in the pictures
 
I don't see any photo of it with a complete beak?:confused:

I've heard of zoo birds(toucan, hornbill etc) receiving plastic beaks/mandibles when they have been broken (on several occassions), but this crane doesn't seem to have been given one(yet)... so how does it manage to eat..??? :confused:
 
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TDH said:
:) :) Look! I managed to rescue him, and I dug deep into the spare camera files and found another image, complete with full mandible! LOL! Panic over . . . .he is fit and well!
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:confused::confused::confused:
The photo shows obviously the same crane with the same very damaged bill :confused:
 
I think h means that you can se the whole of the bill on one picture, and only some on the other...
 
the zoo has one crane in beside the waldripp ibis who has a damaged beak

they also have a younger pair (i think related??) in the duck ponds beside the black stork
 
:) :) Okies, hands up, I'm the dumb blonde of the Forum, I lost the plot . . . . :) :) . . . I thought you guys were teasing me about chopping the end of the mandible in the camera, I never even noticed that the upper beak was broken!

Perhaps I should correct my own description to dumb, blind, blonde :) :)! Ah, if you all only knew how stupid I can be when it comes to animal identification! I would love to say this will be my only mistake but I know for a fact that it will happen again!

So does anyone know how it eats? Perhaps the keepers hand feed? I wont be at the zoo this weekend, We avoid going when all the schools are off, somehow it doesnt seem right trying to get in front of the kids to take photos, but we will be there a week on Monday I am sure, so if no-one knows I will ask then.
 
I wonder how he manages, perhaps he uses the lower beak as a scoop but you would think he would be shovelling up all kinds of dirt too, wouldn't you?
 
maybe he doesn't get much food at the scatter feeds as its almost totally impossible for it to pick up grain from the ground with an uneven bill like that. It could pick at vegetation and large items and I suppose it could put its head sideways along the ground and pick up stuff that way- but I'm not sure a Crane is clever enough to work that out. It must be eating somehow as it looks fit enough.
 
perhaps he/she is fed seperatley by keepers the end of the day but is still there with the other cranes as they are being fed?
 
foz said:
perhaps he/she is fed seperatley by keepers the end of the day but is still there with the other cranes as they are being fed?
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foz, this bird is kept in a separate aviary with a flock of waldrapp ibis
 
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