Black Crowned-crane (Balearica pavonina)

Other Names (World)
Black Crowned-Crane, Kaffir Crane, Dark Crowned Crane, West African Crowned Crane (pavonina), Sudan Crowned Crane (ceciliae), Black Crowned Crane

Family
Gruidae (Cranes)

Size
100 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Range (Guide)

Benin (B) (NB), Burkina Faso (B) (NB), Cameroon (B) (NB), Central African Republic (B) (NB), Chad (B) (NB), Congo [The Democratic Republic of the] (B) (NB), Eritrea (B) (NB), Ethiopia (B) (NB), Gambia (B) (NB), Ghana (NB), Guinea (B) (NB), Guinea-bissau (B) (NB), Kenya (B) (NB), Mali (B) (NB), Mauritania (B) (NB), Niger (B) (NB), Nigeria (B) (NB), Senegal (B) (NB), Sudan (B) (NB), Togo (B) (NB).

Vagrant to C�te dIvoire (B), Egypt (B), Sierra Leone (NB), Uganda (NB).

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 43,000 - 70,000 (2010) and decreasing.

Status VU
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Food
Grass, insects, reptiles, small mammals.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (1)...)

Black Crowned Crane (Balearica pavonina) [XC267448]
by Andrew Spencer from Lake Chelekleka, Ethiopia (call)

Black Crowned Crane (Balearica pavonina) [XC267451]
by id from Lake Boyo marshes, Ethiopia (call)

Nest
A round, loosely constructed platform of reeds and grasses on the ground, placed in short grass marsh in several centimetres of water, or occasionally on dry land.

Subspecies
Formerly considered as conspecific with Grey Crowned-crane (Balearica regulorum).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

pavonina (Linnaeus, 1758) - Scattered populations in sub-Saharan western Africa from Senegambia to L Chad.
ceciliae Mitchell, 1904 - Sub-Saharan Africa from Chad to Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya, especially in basin of upper R Nile.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Black Crowned-crane (Balearica pavonina) - 10 files

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