Migrating cranes call our attention by their trompet-like calls. Usually they stick to a certain formation flying, a wedge-shaped formation.
From the middle of august on the adults having brooded assemble at the places where they meet sometimes thousands of other cranes together with their juvenils. The bachelors - the cranes which haven't brooded - and those which hadn't any success turn up there, too.
During autumn they migrate southwest all over Middle- and West-Europe down to the regions where they will spend the winter using two diffenrent but important routes.
In the course of those routes there are enormous and important resting places. The most famous and largest is the region around Rügen and Zingst (called Rügen-Bock-Region) directly at the coast of the German Baltic-Sea.

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(a map with the migration-route and a drawing of a wedge-shaped formation...)