Before making autumn flight, cranes gather in packs in certain places. Then, with loud shouts, having run up, act from the place and fly. Their flight lasts is unceasing, in night and day time of day. Cranes do not do stops up to the place of a wintering. Birds in Iran, India, Iraq or Africa winter. Some packs remain for the winter in Transcaucasia.
With approach fallscranesof nye of pack prepare for flying away. During the summer, as a rule, all baby birds already well I fly, i.e. rose on a wing. On "summer apartments" the birds during the summer gained the necessary weight and got stronger. Autumn crane flying away begins with the fact that all members of pack gather. When all assembled, cranes, loudly shouting, run up. It is difficult to rise from the place it at once, these birds make running start in several meters and rise into the sky. They fly highly in air strictly wedge-shaped system. From year to year cranes adhere to the chosen route once. When the pack reaches the place of a wintering, the leader chooses the island for a stop. On it cranes also land. Here they will build to live before the flying away. Many cranes fly away for the winter to hot Africa. A huge number of birds is waited by cold weather in the valley of Nile. Existence by a number of the large waterway of Africa favors to accommodation of birds. Many cranes reach the Cape Province. Crane packs winter also in India. In the state Radzhkhastan in the west of the country there is the largest place of a wintering of birds. In the north of India where there are a lot of lakes, the birds find to themselves a shelter till spring too. Cranes fly also in Orissa, to the East of India and to the southern states. Iran is the favourite place of a wintering of crane packs. In the east of the country where the climate less droughty is also lakes and ponds, the birds find to themselves great places for nesting. Many cranes winter in Gilansky and Mazandaransky regions. Autumn flight of many crane packs comes to an end in Iraq. Here, the coast of the river the Tiger, birds wait adverse weather conditions. Routes of some cranes conduct in Transcaucasia. In space, between the northern outskirts of the Talyshinsky lowland and a middle part of the valley of the Kura River, stop on a wintering of a bird. Cranes chose semidesertic territories and salt lakes. Climate here soft, in prosperity of water and food, and density of population of these places small.