sarus

Small game of various species was frequently seen in the fields and hedges; kingfishers, kites, and hawks put in an appearance, and a tall bird standing four feet high was pointed out to us, called a sarus, gray in color, and of the stork family.

Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Maturin Murray Ballou 1857

He also found what may have been the last nest of sarus crane (Grus antigone) for the ecoregion, near Kamphaengphet toward its northern boundary.

Chao Phraya freshwater swamp forests 2008

The grassland-associated birds include the Bengal florican (Houbaropsis bengalensis), lesser florican (Sypheotides indica), sarus crane (Grus antigone), and large grass warbler (Graminicola bengalensis).

Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands 2008

Although unsuitable for agriculture, areas that have been degraded to reed beds nonetheless are still important sites for waterfowl, providing feeding grounds for the eastern sarus crane (Grus antigone), white-shouldered ibis (P. davisoni), and near-endemic giant ibis (Pseudibis gigantea) (Table 2).

Tonle Sap freshwater swamp forests 2007

In 1996 Archibald and Matthiessen traveled to the Gulf of Carpentaria to observe Australia's only two crane species, the sarus and the brolga, or "native companion," so called because of its close association with Australia's Aboriginal people.

Birds Out of Time Flannery, Tim 2002

In the shallows were many yellow egrets, while a _sarus_ crane stalked solemnly along the far bank, and everywhere bird-life, rare elsewhere in the State, abounded.

The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly

"Raoul" makes the extraordinary statement that incubating sarus cranes do not sit when incubating, but hatch the eggs by standing over them, one leg on each side of the nest!

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

Floating nests are constructed by sarus cranes, purple coots and the jacanas.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

The display of the sarus is not an elaborate process.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

The nest of the sarus crane (_Grus antigone_) is nearly always an islet some four feet in diameter, which either floats in shallow water or rises from the ground and projects about a foot above the level of the water.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916