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Cranes3 Bird Species
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Common CraneLarge crane with long black legs and sharp yellowish beak. Adult: Black head. Unfeathered crown with red patch. Red eye. Broad white stripe behind eye connected to single white stripe running down hind-neck. Black front of neck. Grayish body and wings with long, poofy black and gray wing plumes. In f more... Length: 120 cm Wingspan: 85 cm |
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Sandhill CraneAdult is very large, stands upright, with mostly gray body and wings, long gray neck, long black legs, straight black bill, and red crown. In summer, body is often rusty-reddish. Juvenile lacks red crown and has reddish-brown plumage. In flight, legs trail behind body and long neck extends straight a more... Length: 117 cm Wingspan: 195 cm |
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Whooping CraneOnce nearly extinct, this tall, bulky white crane remains critically endangered. Adults are almost entirely white with red crown and malar, dark bill, and black legs; wingtips are black in flight. Juvenile has rusty tones in white plumage. Sandhill Crane has gray plumage; egrets are much slimmer and more... Length: 133 cm Wingspan: 220 cm |
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Common Crane
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Sandhill Crane
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Whooping Crane
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Non-vegetated Areas0 species |
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Salt Water |
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Whooping CraneGrus americana |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Fresh Water Marshes |
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Human-altered Areas0 species |
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Fresh Water |
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Common CraneGrus grus |
Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands |
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Sandhill CraneGrus canadensis |
Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands, Alpine Tundra and Meadows |
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Whooping CraneGrus americana |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Fresh Water Marshes |
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Grassland and Scrubland |
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Common CraneGrus grus |
Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands |
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Sandhill CraneGrus canadensis |
Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands, Alpine Tundra and Meadows |
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Forest and Woodlands0 species |
