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  2. Whooping crane - Wikipedia

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    The whooping crane (Grus americana) is an endangered crane species, native to North America, [3] [1] named for its "whooping" calls. Along with the sandhill crane ( Antigone canadensis ), it is one of only two crane species native to North America, and it is also the tallest North American bird species. [ 3 ]

  3. List of birds of Nunavut - Wikipedia

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    Cranes are large, long-legged, and long-necked birds. Unlike the similar-looking but unrelated herons, cranes fly with necks outstretched, not pulled back. Most have elaborate and noisy courting displays or "dances". Sandhill crane (ᑕᑎᒡᒐᕐᔪᐊᖅ, tatilgaq) Antigone canadensis; Whooping crane, Grus americana (A)

  4. List of cranes - Wikipedia

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    Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range IUCN status and estimated population Siberian crane. L. leucogeranus (Pallas, 1773) Northwestern Palearctic and east-central Siberia CR 3,500–4,000 [4]

  5. Gruiformes - Wikipedia

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    There are only two suprafamilial clades (natural groups) among the birds traditionally classified as Gruiformes. Rails (), flufftails (Sarothruridae), finfoots and sungrebe (Heliornithidae), adzebills (Aptornithidae), trumpeters (), limpkin (), and cranes compose the suborder Grues and are termed "core-Gruiformes". [4]

  6. Crane (bird) - Wikipedia

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    The family name Gruidae comes from the genus Grus, this genus name is obtained from the epithet of the common crane which is Ardea grus, it is named by Carl Linnaeus from the Latin word grus meaning "crane".

  7. Grus (genus) - Wikipedia

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    The name Grus is the Latin word for "crane". [2] The German ornithologist Peter Simon Pallas was sometimes credited with erecting the genus in 1766 [ 3 ] but the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature ruled in 1956 that Brisson should have priority.

  8. List of birds of Canada - Wikipedia

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    Cranes are large, long-legged, and long-necked birds. Unlike the similar-looking, but unrelated, herons, cranes fly with their necks outstretched, not pulled back. Most have elaborate and noisy courting displays. Sandhill crane, Antigone canadensis LC; Common crane, Grus grus (C) LC; Whooping crane, Grus americana EN

  9. List of birds of North America - Wikipedia

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    Cranes are large, long-legged and long-necked birds. Unlike the similar-looking but unrelated herons, cranes fly with necks outstretched, not pulled back. Most have elaborate and noisy courting displays or "dances". Common crane, Grus grus (A) LC; Hooded crane, Grus monacha (A) VU; Sandhill crane, Antigone canadensis LC (ssp. nesiotes and pulla: E)