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The yellow and blue dots on this map are the locations of Wattled Cranes identified during aerial surveys in Mozambique in 2008-09. These data help ICF researchers estimate population sizes and also can be used to analyze the habitats used by cranes. The varying colors on the map correspond with different types of vegetation and land cover, which means that researchers can identify target areas for crane conservation.

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The International Crane Foundation’s Black Crowned Cranes Djoudj (pronounced “Jude”) and Sahel with their “exhibit furniture,” or cut, dried prairie grasses in buckets of sand. Alyssa notes that the cranes “like to hide behind them and also pull the grasses out and toss them around.