They dance in unison with graceful movements, sometimes prancing up into the air a few feet with wings spread. I saw them dance once, on the side of a dam on a sheep station near Tibooburra in the north-western corner of New South Wales. This Brolga was rescued after being tangled in the Dog Fence up near Marree, a town of 80 people a couple of hundred miles north of Quorn. Although freed and still living wild, it's adopted the town, and when you drive through Marree it flies alongside your car looking in at you through your window. It stands around the town, and sometimes tries to make love to road signs.
Tourists see it standing around so still they think it's a statue.