black sea red data book - Department of Biology

Synonyms: None
Grus grus Linnaeus, 1758
Common names: Bulg: Syv zhurav; Rom: Cocor mare; Engl: Crane; Russ: Sery
zhuravl'; Turk: Turna; Ukr: Siry zhuraveV
Order GRUIFORMES
Family GRUIDAE
Taxonomic description. The species is included in Appendix I of Birds Directive
79/409/EEC, Appendix II of the Bonn Convention and Appendix II of the Bern
Convention. At present the nesting of Common Crane in the Black Sea Region is
limited to the Danube Delta (Radu, 1979) and the Northern Sivash (Siokhin,1982).
In all other parts of the Black Sea region, the species is migratory, summer visiting
and overwintering.
R7CN Status
World level: LR
Black Sea Regional level: LR
Subregion level: VU in Ukraine
Distribution. The main direction of spring migrations are north-east, north, and east.
In autumn, the first young birds arrive in the northern Black Sea region at the end of
August. The mass passage begins in late September and continues to mid-October.
The last third of October and mid-November are the period for separate birds or small
flocks of several individuals to appear. Several migration routes can be distinguished
over the territory of Black Sea region. In the north-western part the main direction is
south-western and southern, in the Crimea it is southern; it is south-western in the
valley of the Dnieper, along the coastline of the Black Sea. The biggest gathering site
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