Watercolour, pen and ink, heightened with bodycolour and gum arabic on paper, laid down on stout green paper, mount attached with coloured rules, Urdu inscriptions in black nasta'liq ...

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Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) or just Heron. Seen along the coast and lower reaches of rivers. Although the heron is often colloquially referred to as "crane" here in Ireland, it is not a crane.