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quantities of water, water cranes were a vital part of railway station equipment, often situated at the end of a platform, so that water could be refilled...

fit the above definition of a crane, but are generally known as cranes, such as stacker cranes and loader cranes. Cranes were so called from the resemblance...

recognize other whooping cranes as their conspecifics, and unsuccessfully tried to pair with sandhill cranes, instead. Florida sandhill crane, Ocala National Forest...

the face, but the crowned cranes of the genus Balearica have vibrantly-coloured wings and golden "crowns" of feathers. Cranes fly with their necks extended...

wild (and two captive) cranes remaining by 1941, conservation efforts would lead to a partial recovery. The total number of cranes in the surviving migratory...

Eucalyptus-dominated woodlands and grasslands in Australia. The sarus crane is easily distinguished from other cranes in the region by its overall grey colour and the contrasting...

locomotive's tenders. Water towers were common along the railroad. The tenders were usually replenished by water cranes, which were fed by a water tower.[citation...

keeps cranes. Some literati even reared cranes and trained them to dance to guqin music. The Ming and Qing dynasties endowed the red crowned crane with...

largest crane vessels are used for offshore construction. The cranes are fitted to conventional monohulls and barges, but the largest crane vessels are...

involving cranes, and in Chinese mythology cranes are generally symbolically connected with the idea of longevity.: 86–87  In China, the crane mythology...

rivers. Like most cranes, the Siberian crane inhabits shallow marshlands and wetlands and will often forage in deeper water than other cranes. They show very...

Cranes are tall wading birds in the family Gruidae. Cranes are found on every continent except for South America and Antarctica and inhabit a variety of...

with two revolving cranes built by Huisman Equipment B.V., each with a capacity of 10,000 t (11,000 short tons); the main cranes can be operated in tandem...

common crane (Grus grus), also known as the Eurasian crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes. A medium-sized species, it is the only crane commonly...

of water. The water supply in a tender was replenished at water stops and locomotive depots from a dedicated water tower connected to water cranes or...

on the territory of the former GDR, the infrastructure (e.g. sheds, water cranes, coal handling systems, sanding systems) was still in place on many lines...

the common crane. Like other cranes it has a dancing display, more balletic than the common crane, with less leaping. The demoiselle crane breeds in central...

station. For emergency use another large water tank is situated near Clogwyn Station which can feed two water cranes. The diesel locomotives are used on the...

to 1040. In April 2018, a new population of Wattled Cranes was discovered in Angola. Wattled cranes inhabit fairly inaccessible wetlands under most conditions...

diesel-type oil. Water was supplied at stopping places and locomotive depots from a dedicated water tower connected to water cranes or gantries. In the...