{"id":348,"date":"2010-09-24T10:39:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T15:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/?p=348"},"modified":"2010-09-24T12:39:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T17:39:28","slug":"international-crane-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":"International Crane Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently took a trip to the International Crane Foundation &#8211; near Baraboo\/Lake Delton, Wisconsin.\u00a0 All fifteen of the world&#8217;s Cranes are housed in this facility.\u00a0 These birds are indescribably beautiful and graceful.\u00a0 No other opportunity or venue exists, that I&#8217;m aware of, allowing such close examination of the birds in surroundings that are comfortable for the animal and human visitor.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of photos of a Sandhill Crane, the most common crane in North America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Crane-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-349\" title=\"Crane-10\" src=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Crane-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Crane-10.jpg 640w, http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Crane-10-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Crane-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-350\" title=\"Crane-11\" src=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Crane-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Crane-11.jpg 640w, http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Crane-11-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bird that I found most compellingly photogenic is the Siberian Crane.\u00a0 This bird looks like an evil monk:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Crane-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-354\" title=\"Crane-12\" src=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Crane-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Crane-12.jpg 425w, http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Crane-12-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Crane-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-355\" title=\"Crane-13\" src=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Crane-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Crane-13.jpg 425w, http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Crane-13-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently took a trip to the International Crane Foundation &#8211; near Baraboo\/Lake Delton, Wisconsin.\u00a0 All fifteen of the world&#8217;s Cranes are housed in this facility.\u00a0 These birds are indescribably beautiful and graceful.\u00a0 No other opportunity or venue exists, that I&#8217;m aware of, allowing such close examination of the birds in surroundings that are comfortable&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/?p=348\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">International Crane Foundation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}