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The hooded crane is evaluated as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. [1] It is listed on Appendix I and II of CITES . A society, Grus monacha International Aid (白头鹤的故事), has been formed to find ways to protect the species.
The species with the smallest estimated population is the whooping crane, which is conservatively thought to number 50–249 mature individuals, [5] and the one with the largest is the sandhill crane, which has an estimated population of 450,000–550,000 mature individuals.
Of the four crane genera, Balearica (two species) is restricted to Africa, and Leucogeranus (one species) is restricted to Asia; the other two genera, Grus (including Anthropoides and Bugeranus) and Antigone, are both widespread. [5] [1] Many species of cranes are dependent on wetlands and grasslands, and most species nest in shallow wetlands.
The genus formerly included additional species. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010 found that the genus Grus , as then defined, was polyphyletic . [ 5 ] In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera, the sandhill crane , the white-naped crane , the sarus crane and the brolga were moved to the resurrected genus ...
The crane is carved in a South Korean 500 won coin. In Korea, the red-crowned crane is called durumi or hak and it is considered a symbol of longevity, purity, and peace. Korean seonbis regarded the bird as an icon of their constancy. The red-crowned crane is depicted on the South Korean 500 won coin and is the symbol of Incheon.
Gruiform means "crane-like". Traditionally, a number of wading and terrestrial bird families that did not seem to belong to any other order were classified together as Gruiformes. These include 15 species of large cranes , about 145 species of smaller crakes and rails , as well as a variety of families comprising one to three species , such as ...
Izumi crane migration grounds Hooded crane. The cranes come over with the north and northwest winds from mid October to mid November. Each year there are about 10,000 hooded cranes, 3,000 white-naped cranes and also small numbers of common cranes, demoiselle cranes, sandhill cranes and Siberian cranes.
This is a list of the species of birds found in Egypt, ... The common crane. ... Hooded crow, Corvus cornix Linnaeus, 1758;