Black-necked Crane - WWF-India
Black-necked Crane - WWF-India
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Appendix I<br />
<strong>Crane</strong>s of the World<br />
Common Name Scientific Name Discovered By Distribution<br />
<strong>Black</strong> Crowned <strong>Crane</strong> Balearica pavonina Linne 1758 Central and east Africa to west Africa.<br />
Grey Crowned <strong>Crane</strong> Balearica regulorum Bennett 1833 East Africa to South Africa<br />
Demoiselle <strong>Crane</strong> Anthropoides virgo Linnaeus 1758 Summer : Eurasisa to Central Asia<br />
Winter : Central and East Africa, <strong>India</strong>n subcontinent<br />
Blue <strong>Crane</strong> Anthropoides paradisea Lichtenstein 1793 South Africa<br />
Wattled <strong>Crane</strong> Bugeranus carunculatus Gmelin 1789 South west Ethiopia and western Tanzania to South<br />
Africa<br />
Siberian <strong>Crane</strong> Grus leucogeranus Pallas 1773 Summer : Siberia, Mongolia<br />
Winter : South east China, <strong>India</strong>, Iran<br />
Sarus <strong>Crane</strong> Grus antigone Linnaeus 1758 North <strong>India</strong>, southeast Asia, north Australia<br />
Brolga Grus rubicundus Perry 1810 Australia and southern New Guinea<br />
White-naped <strong>Crane</strong> Grus vipio Pallas 1811 Summer : South-east Russia, north Mongolia, north<br />
east China<br />
Winter : East China, Korea, south Japan<br />
Eurasian <strong>Crane</strong> Grus grus Linnaeus 1758 Summer : Northern Europe to Siberia and Central Asia.<br />
Winter : Spain, North Africa to South and South-east<br />
Asia.<br />
Hooded <strong>Crane</strong> Grus monachus Temminck 1835 Summer : South-east Russia, north-east China<br />
Winter : East China, South Korea and south Japan<br />
<strong>Black</strong>-<strong>necked</strong> <strong>Crane</strong> Grus nigricollis Prezhwalsky 1876 Summer : Tibet and south west- China, Ladakh/<strong>India</strong>.<br />
Winter : South Tibet to south China, Bhutan, Myanmar<br />
Red-crowned <strong>Crane</strong> Grus japonensis Muller 1776 Resident of kurile islands and north Japan.<br />
Summer : South-east Russia, north-east China.<br />
Winter : East China , Korea.<br />
Whooping <strong>Crane</strong> Grus americana Linnaeus 1758 Summer : Canada<br />
Winter : Southern USA<br />
Sandhill <strong>Crane</strong> Grus canadensis Linnaeus 1758 Florida, Georgia, Mississippi/USA, and Cuba.<br />
Summer : East Siberia, Canada, north and north-west<br />
USA, northern Mexico<br />
Source: The <strong>Crane</strong> Family and its Distribution (Holstein, 1991)<br />
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<strong>Black</strong>-<strong>necked</strong> <strong>Crane</strong> - Status, Breeding, Productivity and Conservation
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