This “Crane” bird is one of the guardians of a Chinese chill out pagoda, in the lower big Buddha area.
His companion guardians are a pair of dogs and a puppy (vicious looking ones !) and a dragon.
Taken at Lower Big Buddha Hill, Thailand Nov-2013
We Think He’s a “Crane” (Bird)
Don Charisma 
Crane? What crane? Isn’t that a swan? bwhahahaha!!
LOL … It’s a white bird with a black beak … better ?
Ha ha. I just couldn’t resist! 😉
😉 you’re on good form today !
Neat looking bird. I’ve seen paper origami cranes, and some day may learn to make one or a thousand, but where are the mean looking dogs? Uh, you do know cranes deliver babies, don’t you? Or did you think they were found in the cabbage patch LOL. Oops, wait a minute. It’s the stork that delivers the babies — I wish. I would have had a dozen if that were true.
The mean looking dogs are close by … closest I’ve got to origami is paper aeroplanes !
Same here, but origami is on my bucket list.
🙂