Red Crane pics

I was digging through an old hard drive from 2006 and found these pics from the Factions preview weekend event(March or April?). They may not be photographer grade screenshots, but they are probably some of the only ones that still exist of the red crane. If anyone wants to post them on wiki for historical purposes that would be cool.

Very cool! I have never seen one of them before.
Thanks for posting these.

Nice!
Post the other Pics aswell!!

You put the panda back in the game, ANet, now please give my crane back his old red head - blue is so dull.

Why the heck did anet drop that bird - if no1 said what it was i would have guessed a turkey lol.Its one hell of a good skin , its a shame we cant get it .
Wonder if all the players in the factions preview killed all the birds an hence not made it into factions :P

I wonder if the original texture is in the .dat. If it is, a texmod swap would be trivial.

The official wiki has a smaller image of the red crane's head, and there is an explanation from Gaile Gray for why it was changed on the talk page.

Thanks for sharing those screenshots.

I agree. That's a great looking pet! If there is a way to do a textmod swap, I'd love to find out how to do that -- would be great to have that pet in the menagerie.

Thanks for sharing the pics. : )