In the end he didn’t have to wear a beak. But Vladimir Putin did don white overalls and big black goggles as he took to the skies over northern Siberia in a motorised hang glider to help endangered cranes begin their migration to wintering grounds in Iran and India.
Unfortunately no one had told the young birds, who only formed up behind Russia’s stunt-loving head of state on his second time in the air. On his first flight Putin was accompanied by only one of the Siberian white cranes.
via Inhabitat and The Guardian
September 7, 2012