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Tràm Chim National Park (Vietnamese: Vườn quốc gia Tràm Chim) is a national park in the Plain of Reeds in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam.The park was created to restore a degraded wetland, in order to protect several rare birds, especially the sarus crane (Grus antigone sharpii)--a species listed on the IUCN Red List.
The sarus crane (Antigone antigone) is a large nonmigratory crane found in parts of the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and northern Australia.The tallest of the flying birds, standing at a height of up to 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in), they are a conspicuous species of open wetlands in South Asia, seasonally flooded Dipterocarpus forests in Southeast Asia, and Eucalyptus-dominated woodlands and ...
A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010 found that the genus Grus was polyphyletic. [4] In the subsequent rearrangement, four species were placed in the resurrected genus Antigone. [2] The genus had initially been erected in 1853 by German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach. [5] The type species is the sarus crane (Antigone antigone). [6]
Grus is sometimes further divided into three distinct genera, with the wattled crane being split out as Bugeranus and the blue and demoiselle cranes being split out as Anthropoides. [11] Subfamily Balearicinae. Genus Balearica: two species; Subfamily Gruinae. Genus Leucogeranus: one species; Genus Antigone: four species; Genus Grus: eight species
Grey crowned crane (Balearica regulorum) in captivity at Martin Mere, UK Red-crowned cranes (Grus japonensis) 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". [9]
The sarus crane, Grus antigone is an all-year resident breeding bird in northern Pakistan and India (especially Central India and the Gangetic plains), Nepal, Southeast Asia and Queensland, Australia. It is a very large crane, averaging 156 cm (5 ft) in length, which is found in freshwater marshes and plains. [7]
Grus is a genus of large birds in the crane family.. The genus Grus was erected by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760. [1] The name Grus is the Latin word for "crane". [2]
Antigone cubensis, sometimes called the Cuban flightless crane, is a large, extinct species of crane which was endemic to the island of Cuba in the Caribbean.The species was originally placed in the genus Grus, as Grus cubensis, [1] however subsequent study of the genus resulted in moving the species to Antigone in 2020. [2]