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The California quail is the official state bird of California. This list of birds of California is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species seen naturally in the U.S. state of California as determined by the California Bird Records Committee (CBRC). [1] Additional accidental and hypothetical species have been added from different sources.
The crane was a bird of omen in Greek mythology. In the tale of Ibycus and the cranes, a thief attacked Ibycus (a poet of the sixth century BCE) and left him for dead. Ibycus called to a flock of passing cranes to spread the word of his murder, and the Eumenides subsequently summon these cranes to fly over a crowd of mourners calling for Ibycus ...
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]
The white-naped crane (Antigone vipio, formerly Grus vipio, also known as the Daurian crane [3] in Russian sources) is a bird in the crane family, Gruidae.It is a large bird measuring 112–125 cm (44–49 in) long, about 130 cm (4.3 ft) tall, and weighing about 5.6 kg (12 lb), with pinkish legs, a grey-and-white-striped neck, and a red face patch.
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They are large birds with long necks and legs, a tapering form, and long secondary feathers on the wing that project over the tail. [2] Most species have muted gray or white plumages, marked with black, and red bare patches on the face, but the crowned cranes of the genus Balearica have vibrantly-coloured wings and golden "crowns" of feathers ...
A group of Oklahoma hunters are accused of killing endangered whooping cranes and hiding the bodies — but one of the birds wasn’t dead.. The four men, all between 32 and 43 years old, shot the ...
White Crane may refer to: Fujian White Crane, a southern Chinese martial art; Siberian crane, a nearly all-white bird in the family Gruidae; Tibetan White Crane, a western/southern Chinese martial art; White Crane Journal, a quarterly magazine of gay spirituality, published for 81 issues from 1988–2010