On 5 May Alan Barron found and photographed a Common Crane (Grus grus) near the southeastern end of Lake Earl in Del Norte County, California. Although Common Crane is an ABA Code-4 species on the ABA Checklist, it does not currently appear on the California state checklist of birds, however Demoiselle Crane (Anthropoides virgo) appears on the California Supplemental List, species for which the California Bird Records Committee (CBRC) has determined that all of the correctly identified records are of uncertain natural occurrence. Species thought by the CBRC to be probable escapees are not on their Supplemental List.
States and provinces currently with at least one accepted record of Common Crane include, Alberta, Alaska, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Québec, and Saskatchewan. Both Indiana and Nebraska have had Common Cranes that are known to pair with a Sandhill Crane, producing offspring. A Common Crane from upstate New York is known to have escaped from a farm, traveling to Vermont and New Jersey where it paired with a Sandhill Crane (ABA Checklist, Seventh Edition, Pranty et al.).
I'd be interested in hearing. The TOS seems rather clear that it is not unless expressly approved by Amazon. I guess if the library got it in writing then they would be ok.
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