34 Brolgas and Sarus Cranes
About this episode
A crane in a wetland is hard to forget. Edward Bell shares the world of Brolgas and Sarus Cranes, and the annual Crane Count in the Atherton Tablelands.
Bird illustration: Sarus Crane
Resources
Australian Crane Network - Introducing Australian and New Guinea Cranes
Recordings are by Marc Anderson and licensed from www.wildambience.com
Meet the guest
Edward Bell has worked and volunteered across a wide variety of conservation projects, including surveying parrots in the Caribbean and assisting in microbat research on three continents. His interest in birds developed with his arrival in Australia in 2019. He is the coordinator for the Crane Count on behalf of Birdlife Northern Queensland, which has been monitoring Sarus Crane numbers with citizen scientists for over twenty years. He is also currently studying a Bachelor of Science in Zoology and Ecology at James Cook University in Cairns.
