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The black-necked crane (Grus nigricollis) is a medium-sized crane in Asia that breeds on the Tibetan Plateau and remote parts of India and Bhutan.It is 139 cm (55 in) long with a 235 cm (7.71 ft) wingspan, and it weighs 5.5 kg (12 lb).
Genus Grus – Brisson, 1760 – 8 species Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range IUCN status and estimated population Wattled crane. G. carunculata [b] (Gmelin, J. F., 1789) Southern and eastern Africa VU 6,000–6,300 [18] Blue crane. G. paradisea [c] (Lichtenstein, A. A. H., 1793) Southern Africa VU 17,000–30,000 [19] Demoiselle ...
A black-necked crane festival is held every year in the premises of the Gangteng Monastery on 11 November to welcome the cranes, which start arriving in late October. The festival is attended by a large number of local people. On this occasion, children wearing crane costumes perform choreographed crane dances.
Black-necked crane The Tibetan Plateau and remote parts of India and Bhutan . The HBW / BirdLife and Clements checklists place the demoiselle crane and blue crane in the genus Anthropoides , and the wattled crane in the monospecific genus Bugeranus , leaving only the red-crowned, whooping, common, hooded, and black-necked cranes in the genus Grus .
A pair of black-necked cranes (Grus nigricollis) foraging. The cranes consume a wide range of food, both animal and plant matter. When feeding on land, they consume seeds, leaves, nuts and acorns, berries, fruit, insects, worms, snails, small reptiles, mammals, and birds.
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 ...
The genus was named by Carl Linnaeus to be used for the sarus crane or its old name Grus major Indica because he was confused between Greek princesses Antigone of Troy who turned into a stork and Gerana who turned into the crane. [3] A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010 found that the genus Grus was polyphyletic. [4]
English: Black Necked Cranes (Grus nigricollis) pair at Tsokar, Ladakh – These birds are one of the rarest species found in India, about a 100 odd pairs have made Tsokar and its adjacent areas their breeding grounds.These birds feed on small arthropods,reptiles and crustaceans. These need to conserved at the earliest.