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The Rare Ones: 6: Cranes of Japan

BBC One
on BBC One London

A world study of wildlife in danger and of the wild places where it lives.

A film series by Eugen Schuhmacher.
Commentary by Peter Scott.
In Japan cranes are sacred birds, and for hundreds of years they have appeared in Japanese art. The rarest of them is the Manchurian crane, of which only about 150 still survive in the wild today.
Presented by the BBC Natural History Unit
See page 23

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Director:
Eugen Schuhmacher
Narrator:
Peter Scott
Source: Radio Times

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