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Blue Cranes and chick, ZSL Whipsnade, UK

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The Blue Cranes at Whipsnade had two chicks in 2024 and in 2025 produced two eggs, one chick. Photographed on 23rd July 2025
@Summer Tanager thanks I was super pleased to see such a young chick. I’ve caught them at a little older before but not quite as newly hatched as this! As noted in the shooting British birds thread I was just finished photographing a butterfly when they caught it and fed it to the chick so they had a bit of a treat as well as me.
 

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ZSL Whipsnade Zoo
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Lafone
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Device
SONY ILCE-1
Aperture
ƒ/5.6
Focal length
600.0 mm
Exposure time
1/640 second(s)
ISO
800
Flash
Off, did not fire
Filename
whip23rdjuly2025blue1.jpg
File size
14.5 MB
Date taken
Wed, 23 July 2025 2:18 PM
Dimensions
8640px x 4416px

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