Of all the birds in all the world, none steps up the heart rate like the Sky Crane. Yes, it's the worst cliche in the world to say, as so many cities did in the 1990s and early 2000s, that the sky crane is the city's official bird. But when I see one in the evening hovering over a major construction project I know something powerful is up.
On a recent trip to Asia I saw dozens of sky cranes above the skylines of booming Singapore, Taipei and Hong Kong. But in busted California they've become what the condor used to be: an endangered species. This rare sighting hovers over the top of Sutter Medical Center, which is doing a $700 million expansion in downtown Sacramento.
Here is its twin sister, with the moon on its wings:
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