As the sun came up, 13 Eastern Sarus cranes were released over a rippling reservoir in the northeastern province of Buri Ram, the latest effort to revive the almost-extinct species in the kingdom.
More commonly known as Thai cranes, the birds nearly disappeared from the country roughly 50 years ago -- they were last spotted in the wild in 1968 -- before a collaboration between the government, Nakhon Ratchasima Zoo and United Nations to save them.
