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The grey crowned crane is approximately 1 m (3 ft 3 in) tall, weighs 3.5 kg (7.7 lb), and has a wingspan of 2 m (6 ft 7 in). Its body plumage is mainly grey. The wings are predominantly white but contain feathers with a range of colours, with a distinctive black patch at the very top. The head has a crown of stiff golden feathers.
The bird genus Balearica (also called the crowned cranes or Balearic cranes) contains two extant species in the crane family Gruidae: the black crowned crane (B. pavonina) and the grey crowned crane (B. regulorum). [2] The species today occur only in Africa, south of the Sahara Desert, and are the only cranes that can nest in trees.
The black crowned crane also has large red cheek patches just behind its eye that differ in size between its two subspecies; the West African black crowned crane (Balearica pavonina pavonina) has red on the lower half of its cheek patch while the Sudan black crowned crane (Balearica pavonine ceciliae) has red extending to the upper half as well ...
The Indianapolis Zoo is a 93-acre (38 ha) non-profit zoo, public aquarium, and botanical garden in Indianapolis, ... East African crowned crane ...
Coat of arms of Edward Twining Crest A dexter cubit arm grasping in the hand two snakes entwined round the arm Proper and charged on the forearm with a millrind Or. Escutcheon Sable a fess embattled between in chief two mullets and in base a millrind Or. Supporters On the dexter a crested crane, on the sinister a giraffe, both Proper. Motto
The Port of Baltimore shared an image of the crane barge, Donjon's Chesapeake 1000, which ABC News reported was onsite Friday morning at the site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The span ...
The cost of the unprecedented search for the missing Titan submersible will easily stretch into the millions of dollars, experts said Friday. Searchers raced against a 96-hour clock in the ...
Excellency is an honorific style given to certain high-level ... Crested Crane, Crown, ... with the exception of the former British East African countries of ...