The tallest flying bird in the world, and what it chose to do with that
Grus antigone, the sarus crane, stands up to 1.8 metres tall, making it the tallest flying bird on the planet. It lives across the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and northern Australia, but its stronghold is the wetlands of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Gujarat. Farmers in these regions have coexisted with sarus cranes for generations, watching pairs wade through paddy fields and marshes in near-constant proximity to each other.
