White-naped crane

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White-naped crane
White-naped crane at Saijo, Ehime, Japan
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Gruidae
Genus: Antigone
Species:
A. vipio
Binomial name
Antigone vipio
(Pallas, 1811)
Geographical distribution.

Green: Breeding
Yellow: Migratory passage
Red: Non-breeding

The white-naped crane (Antigone vipio) is a bird of the crane family. It is a large bird, 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.

Distribution

The white-naped crane breeds in northeastern

Kyūshū in Japan. They also reach Kazakhstan and Taiwan
. Only about 4,900 to 5,400 individuals remain in the wild.

Its diet consists mainly of insects, seeds, roots, plants, and small animals.

Due to ongoing habitat loss and overhunting in some areas, the white-naped crane is evaluated as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.[1] It is listed on Appendix I and II of CITES. In South Korea, it has been designated natural monument 203.[3]

Taxonomy

The white-naped crane was formerly placed in the genus

Antigone that had originally been erected by German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach in 1853.[5][6]

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References

  1. ^
    doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22692073A131927305.en
    . Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. ^ "재두루미" (in Korean). heritage.go.kr. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  4. S2CID 85412892
    .
  5. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  6. ^ Reichenbach, Ludwig (1853). Handbuch der speciellen Ornithologie. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Friedrich Hofmeister. p. xxiii.

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