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The red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis), also called the Manchurian crane (traditional Chinese: 丹頂鶴; simplified Chinese: 丹顶鹤; pinyin: dāndǐng hè; Japanese: 丹頂鶴 or タンチョウヅル; rōmaji: tanchōzuru; Korean: 두루미; romaja: durumi; the Chinese character '丹' means 'red', '頂/顶' means 'crown' and '鶴/鹤' means 'crane'), is a large East Asian crane among the ...
A whooping crane foraging on a cattle ranch in Osceola County, Florida. These birds forage while walking in shallow water or in fields, sometimes probing with their bills. They are omnivorous but tend to be more inclined to animal material than most other cranes. Only the red-crowned crane may have a more carnivorous diet among living cranes. [38]
Clockwise from top left: blue cranes, sandhill cranes, grey crowned cranes, and red-crowned cranes Cranes are tall wading birds in the family Gruidae. Cranes are found on every continent except for South America and Antarctica and inhabit a variety of open habitats, although most species prefer to live near water. [ 1 ]
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. [8] [9] [10] [11]
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]
[5]: 25 Grade I species include the golden eagle, the great bustard, the hooded crane, the Oriental stork, the red-crowned crane, the scaly-sided merganser, and the white-tailed eagle. Many of these, along with the little curlew, Nordmann's greenshank, and the white-naped crane, are listed in CITES Appendix 1. [1]: 2
In 2020, winter counts recorded more than 3,800 red-crowned cranes, including about 1,900 in Japan, more than 1,600 in Korea and about 350 in China. Vulnerable red-crowned crane chick ventures ...
Red-crowned crane. Proposed as national bird by State Forestry Administration in 2007 (awaiting State Council approval). Grus japonensis: No [29] [30] [31] Colombia: Andean condor: Vultur gryphus: Yes [32] Costa Rica: Clay-colored thrush: Turdus grayi: Yes [33] Croatia: Common nightingale: Luscinia megarhynchos: No [34] Cuba: Cuban trogon ...