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These are not Demoiselles but the less common 'Common Cranes'! And how nice that they also get hospitality near Jodhpur, along the Jodhpur-Jaipur highway, freely feeding and existing in the winter months in unprotected farm lands and village fields where they feel safe. They seem to be pulling out roots and tubers from the fields and around a dried-up pond. Common Cranes feed merrily in village fields along highway in Rajasthan, appreciate India's hospitality. A flock of Common Cranes (Grus grus) feeding in open fallow farmland around Jodhpur in Rajasthan, India. These are not Demoiselles but the less common 'Common Cranes'! And how nice that they also get hospitality near Jodhpur, along the Jodhpur-Jaipur highway, freely feeding and existing in the winter months in unprotected farm lands
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