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 VU    White-naped Crane* Id (Atlas):
    Antigone vipio

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
White-naped Crane, Japanese White-necked Crane

Family
Gruidae (Cranes)

Size
120 - 153 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Pallas, 1811)

Habitat
Breeds in the wetlands of steppe and forest-steppe zones, in grassy marshes, wet sedge-meadows and reedbeds in broad river valleys, lake depressions and boggy upland wetlands. Winters on freshwater lakes, farmland and occasionally coastal flats.

Range (Guide)
China (mainland) (B) (NB), Japan (NB), Mongolia (B), North Korea (NB), Russia (Asian) (B), South Korea (NB).

Vagrant to Kazakhstan, Russia (Central Asian), Taiwan (China) (NB).

North-eastern Mongolia, north-eastern China and extreme south-eastern Russia. Winters in Korea, southern Japan and central-eastern China, along middle and lower R Yangtze.
 
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 6,500 (2010) and decreasing.

Status VU
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
High-pitched, penetrating calls.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (27)...)

 
White-naped Crane (Antigone vipio) [XC168763]
     by Andrew Spencer from Arasaki Crane Center, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan (call)

 
White-naped Crane (Antigone vipio) [XC481562]
     by Martin Billard from Bayan Nuur, Mongolia (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Similar Species
Common Crane (Grus grus) which has black nape, face and foreneck, Hooded Crane (Grus monacha) which has fully white neck and white face below the eye.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for White-naped Crane (Antigone vipio) - 10 files


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