Sarus

Word SARUS
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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. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (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). ❋ Unknown (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). ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ 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. ❋ Gordon Casserly (N/A)

"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! ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

Floating nests are constructed by sarus cranes, purple coots and the jacanas. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

The display of the sarus is not an elaborate process. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

The peafowl and sarus cranes are indulging in the pleasures of courtship. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

The legs of the sitting sarus crane are folded under it, as are those of incubating flamingos and other long-legged birds. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

As we have seen, the nesting season of the birds that breed in the rains ends in September, nevertheless a few belated crow-pheasants, sarus cranes and weaver-birds are often to be found in October still busy with nestlings, or even with eggs; the latter usually prove to be addled, and this explains the late sitting of the parent. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

The water-birds, being busy at their nests, are of course noisy, but, with the exception of the loud trumpeting of the sarus cranes, their vocal efforts are heard only at the _jhil_. ❋ 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. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

Then one day, not far from the Taj Mahal, a pair of sarus cranes, the tallest flying bird in the world, stood in a shallow pond. ❋ By SOMINI SENGUPTA (2011)

A loud trumpeting call heralded the approach of 10 rare sarus cranes, at 153cm the tallest flying birds, which landed on the bank opposite me. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In her grandfather's time, said Sirimanee, sarus cranes were a common sight but she hasn't seen any in decades. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My mother and grand mother used to make these kind of sarus. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As I had mentioned earlier, Konkanis make many different sarus which are like rasams. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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