East Africa’s wetlands echo with the bugling of grey crowned cranes Uganda’s national bird, sporting magnificent golden crowns.

These elegant dancers perform year-round in papyrus swamps, highland bogs, and floodplains from the Rift Valley to Lake Victoria’s shores.

Pairs mate for life. See them in Murchison Falls, the Ngorongoro highlands, or Amboseli’s swamps, where they forage alongside elephants and buffalo. Wattled cranes occasionally appear in Tanzania’s remote wetlands.