Blue Crane on the Cape West Coast
South Africa's National Bird: Blue Crane on the Cape West Coast A Blue Crane photographed beside the road towards Jacobsbaai on South Africa's West Coast, revisited as an archive encounter. Blue Crane | Jacobsbaai, Cape West Coast Blue Crane photographed beside the road towards Jacobsbaai on South Africa's West Coast. About this photograph: This Blue Crane photograph forms part of the Vernon Chalmers Photography archive and was made during a roadside encounter while travelling towards Jacobsbaai on South Africa's West Coast. The image is revisited here not only as a bird photograph, but as a record of place, landscape and photographic observation. Blue Crane on the Cape West Coast The Blue Crane (Anthropoides paradiseus), South Africa's proud national bird, can be found across the rolling wheat fields and pastures of the Cape West Coast, though it is most famously concentrated in the Overberg region. Spotting the National Bird on the West Coast While more than ha...