Bart

Profile Picture and Leg Ring Combination Code

• Red
• Blue
• Red

What is this?

Each crane has a unique combination of 3 coloured rings on their right leg. This marking code helps to identify the crane in the wild.

Character profile:

Summer 2010: Quite a high ranking male with a very inquisitive and occasionally aggressive nature. Also quite destructive. Nick-named Bart as its crane school leg tag was yellow, and it seemed to be always causing trouble! Also have a look at the May 8th photo...he really does seem to resemble Bart Simpson. He is the brother of Yellow Black Red. Sept 2010:  Often found in a group with Clarence's cohort, and starting to become one of Clarence's close-nit gang.  Bart has a leg-mounted satelitte transmitter and is one of the birds we can monitor remotely, with information being sent every third day to a satellite and beamed back down to a computer.   October 2010: Still fiesty but with the new requirements needed to forage and find food there is less time to be so bolshie with the other members of the group. Especially as they now need to work together in the big bad world!Nov 2010: In recent weeks the cranes have all joined forces with Clarences group and are now usually moving as a group of 20. Bart is usually in the middle of the group and is friendly towards any bird nearby! They have found new fields to explore and are often found foraging on maize stubbles, Barts new favourite food!Jan 2011 - Bart has been one of the flock during the coldest December on record and has been keeping his head down and getting on with it!  March 2011:  Bart is very much part of the crowd and is in the same stae of developement as the other birds. Although as with Gemma, he has become quite a dancer become very adept at throwing around bits of rotting vegetation. April 2011: Bart took a flight out to Catcott and Shapwick in late April, along with Clarence, Gemma and Chris, and as part of this group has travelled further than most of the other birds.September 2011: Bart is still sticking with the original 18, but is slowly coming to accept that the new 2011 birds are there to stay.  He has nearly all of his adult plumage and is definately a very attractive bird.

Photos of Bart

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