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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).
Black-necked crane, Grus nigricollis. Black-necked cranes in Bhutan (Grus nigricollis) are winter visitors during late October to mid February to the Phobjikha Valley as well as Ladakh, India, and Arunachal Pradesh, India. They arrive from the Tibetan Plateau, where they breed in the summer.
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.
The black-necked crane (trhung-trhung) is a rare species found scattered in the Tibetan Plateau, and is also found nesting in summer in parts of Ladakh. Other birds include the raven , red-billed chough ( chungka ), Tibetan snowcock and chukar (a partridge, srakpa ). [ 1 ]
It is important as one of the few places in India with a population of the Kiang or Tibetan Wild Ass, as well as the rare Black-necked Crane. Changthang Wildlife Sanctuary covers an area of 4000 km 2. (Wildlife Department Ladakh)
Kargyam is a village in Leh district of the Indian union territory of Ladakh. [2] It is located in the Durbuk tehsil (subdistrict), in the Long Parma valley between Tangtse and Chushul . Kargyam is famous for its wetlands and Blackneck crane and nomadic lifestyle.
The Changthang Wildlife Sanctuary (or the Changthang Cold Desert Wildlife Sanctuary) is a high altitude wildlife sanctuary located in the Ladakhi adjunct of the Changtang plateau in the Leh District, Ladakh. It is important as one of the few places in India with a population of the kiang or Tibetan wild ass, as well as the rare black-necked crane.
The black-necked crane comes to India every year for breeding. Photograph taken at Tso Kar, Ladakh. Vegetation is extremely sparse in Ladakh except along streambeds and wetlands, on high slopes, and irrigated places. About 1250 plant species, including crops, were reported from Ladakh. [74]