Around 300 red-headed cranes have arrived in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang on their annual dry season migration, local authorities said Wednesday.

They said only 200 of them were spotted last year.

The birds’ favorite destinations are fields in Kien Luong and Giang Thanh districts where a species of sedge Lepironia articulate grows and provides shelter and food for them.

Every dry season, the red-headed crane migrates from northern Cambodia and the forests of Vietnam’s Central Highlands to wetlands in the Mekong Delta and around Cambodia’s giant Tonle Sap lake.

The bird, also known as the Sarus crane (Grus antigone), is found mainly in India and Southeast Asia, and, at six feet tall, is the tallest of the 15 species of cranes; it has a wingspan of eight feet.

All cranes are omnivorous. Sarus cranes feed on aquatic plants, grains, insects, invertebrates, and small vertebrates.

They are classified as “vulnerable” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

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