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208. Blue Crane
(Blue crane ) (Anthropoides paradiseus)
Siswati: indvwe
Rare breeding summer migrant in the highveld.
Eswatini Red Data Status: VU A2bcde+3bcde ver 3.1 (2001)
Southern African Red Data Status: Vulnerable
International Red Data Status: Vulnerable
Malolotja
Malolotja Information:
Altitudinal migrant. Three pairs nesting in Malolotja Vlei, She Mine area and Mhlangamphepha Valley. Numbers increasing.
Highveld grassland
Malolotja information from the Bird Checklist for Malolotja (printed in the late 1980's, sponsored by the Natural History Society of Eswatini), supplemented with information from Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa, 1985.
Checklist, comments and distribution information from the Eswatini Bird Atlas by Vincent Parker, digital data provided by the Avian Demography Unit, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town (http://www.aviandemographyunit.org). SiSwati names from SNTC and Big Game Parks.
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