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  2. White-naped crane - Wikipedia

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    The white-naped crane (Antigone vipio, formerly Grus vipio, also known as the Daurian crane [3] in Russian sources) is a bird in the crane family, Gruidae.It is a large bird measuring 112–125 cm (44–49 in) long, about 130 cm (4.3 ft) tall, and weighing about 5.6 kg (12 lb), with pinkish legs, a grey-and-white-striped neck, and a red face patch.

  3. List of cranes - Wikipedia

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    The species with the smallest estimated population is the whooping crane, which is conservatively thought to number 50–249 mature individuals, [5] and the one with the largest is the sandhill crane, which has an estimated population of 450,000–550,000 mature individuals.

  4. Crane (bird) - Wikipedia

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    In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera, the Siberian crane was moved to the resurrected monotypic genus Leucogeranus, while the sandhill crane, the white-naped crane, the sarus crane, and the brolga were moved to the resurrected genus Antigone. [1]

  5. The crane attacked potential mates. But then she fell for her ...

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    Walnut, a white-naped crane and internet celebrity, has passed away at age 42. “Walnut was a unique individual with a vivacious personality,” Crowe said, in a statement released by the ...

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  7. Gruiformes - Wikipedia

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    Gruiform means "crane-like". Traditionally, a number of wading and terrestrial bird families that did not seem to belong to any other order were classified together as Gruiformes. These include 15 species of large cranes , about 145 species of smaller crakes and rails , as well as a variety of families comprising one to three species , such as ...

  8. List of birds of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Gulls are typically gray or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They have stout, longish bills and webbed feet. Terns are a group of generally medium to large seabirds typically with gray or white plumage, often with black markings on the head. Most terns hunt fish by diving but some pick insects off the surface of fresh water.

  9. Izumi crane migration grounds - Wikipedia

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    Izumi crane migration grounds Hooded crane. The cranes come over with the north and northwest winds from mid October to mid November. Each year there are about 10,000 hooded cranes, 3,000 white-naped cranes and also small numbers of common cranes, demoiselle cranes, sandhill cranes and Siberian cranes.