Black Nacked Crane Tour
The Black-necked Crane has an average height of 1.5 meters,
weighs about 5.35kg. In Bhutan, the Black-necked Crane is also known as Thrung
Thrung Karmo and is deeply revered as a heavenly bird (lhab-bja), which has
harmoniously coexisted with the residents largely due to strong Buddhist
beliefs.
Black-necked cranes are thought to live as long as 80
years.According to tradition, the cranes will in the prescribed Buddhist manner
circle the monastery three times on arrival in a clockwise direction as a mark
of their devotion before finally landing in the center of the marsh. Here in
Bhutan's Pobjika valley and Bumdaling valley, the cranes are protected. To kill
a crane carries a sentence of life imprisonment. Ten percent of the world's
black crane population winters here in Bhutan.
Phobjikha in Wangdue district and Bomdeling under Trashi Yangtse
district are two major wintering sites of Black necked Cranes. Gyetsa in
Bumthang and Khotokha in Wangdue are two other wintering habitat of the cranes.
Every year the birds arrive on their wintering grounds between mid-October and
early December and remain until March through mid- April.
When the cranes arrive, so the local people say, they appear in
the sky above the valley, head for the Goemba and circle over the building,
before coming into land in the marshy area of the valley floor. Again, when the
cranes decide to leave, they gather together, then take off flying towards the
Goemba again, circling the building once again before heading out of the valley
to fly north to their breeding grounds.Read more.....
weighs about 5.35kg. In Bhutan, the Black-necked Crane is also known as Thrung
Thrung Karmo and is deeply revered as a heavenly bird (lhab-bja), which has
harmoniously coexisted with the residents largely due to strong Buddhist
beliefs.
Black-necked cranes are thought to live as long as 80
years.According to tradition, the cranes will in the prescribed Buddhist manner
circle the monastery three times on arrival in a clockwise direction as a mark
of their devotion before finally landing in the center of the marsh. Here in
Bhutan's Pobjika valley and Bumdaling valley, the cranes are protected. To kill
a crane carries a sentence of life imprisonment. Ten percent of the world's
black crane population winters here in Bhutan.
Phobjikha in Wangdue district and Bomdeling under Trashi Yangtse
district are two major wintering sites of Black necked Cranes. Gyetsa in
Bumthang and Khotokha in Wangdue are two other wintering habitat of the cranes.
Every year the birds arrive on their wintering grounds between mid-October and
early December and remain until March through mid- April.
When the cranes arrive, so the local people say, they appear in
the sky above the valley, head for the Goemba and circle over the building,
before coming into land in the marshy area of the valley floor. Again, when the
cranes decide to leave, they gather together, then take off flying towards the
Goemba again, circling the building once again before heading out of the valley
to fly north to their breeding grounds.Read more.....