Crane · Tall wetland dancers whose red-crowned East Asian population is the atlas type and a conservation bottleneck.
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The taxonomy hero is Grus japonensis -- Kushiro, the Korean DMZ and Izumi. Other Grus species appear as comparison, not as the page type.
The Aransas-Wood Buffalo flock was about 21 birds in 1941. That nadir still defines US recovery graphs.
He courtship-danced with a human-imprinted whooping crane named Tex so she would ovulate -- a 1980s method story, not a field census.
A large share of the migratory island population winters on one Kyushu floodplain. Influenza years there are species-level events.
Pairs are typically socially monogamous. The dance is pair-bond and territorial display, not a fairy-tale wedding.
Wintering red-crowned and white-naped cranes use the Civilian Control Zone. Peace-time development is a documented risk to that accidental reserve.
IUCN: Endangered
Icons here are not a ranking of living animals as best. They are the Wikipedia-titled faces a later chapter can attach images to.
Stats are relative 0-100 marks inside this type, for comparison on the page, not a global scoreboard.
Alastair Rae from London, United Kingdom · CC BY-SA 2.0
Atlas type -- Kushiro, DMZ, Izumi.
Red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis, East Asia) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Sasata · CC BY-SA 3.0
Aransas-Wood Buffalo recovery graph.
Whooping crane (21 in 1941, United States / Canada) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
ICF cofounder; the Tex dance story.
George Archibald (1946-, Canada / United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Rod from Livonia, Michigan · CC BY 2.0
Baraboo comparative crane centre.
International Crane Foundation (1973-, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Tim Ross · Public domain
Ultralight-led whooping-crane flyway.
Operation Migration (2001-2015, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
アラツク · CC BY-SA 4.0
Single-floodplain winter risk.
Izumi crane wintering (Kagoshima, Japan) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
欅 (Keyaki) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Resident Japanese breeding stronghold.
Kushiro-shitsugen (Hokkaido tancho, Japan) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Driedprawns at en.wikipedia · CC BY 2.5
Accidental sanctuary for red-crowned and white-naped cranes.
Korean DMZ cranes (winter refuge, Korea) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Stats are relative 0–100 marks within this species, for comparison only.
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Ultralight whooping cranes migrated on a human route. Pairing and predator skills did not always follow the GPS track.
Hokkaido grain piles raised counts and created a public tancho. Dependency and disease concentration came with the gift.
Apex diurnal raptors whose stoops, territories and national emblems stretch from taiga cliffs to tropical canopy.
Overall 75 🦉Nocturnal raptors whose facial discs, silent flight and asymmetric ears turn darkness into a hunting map.
Overall 72 🐧Flightless southern divers that turned wings into flippers and ice edges into commute routes.
Overall 56 🐦New World nectar specialists that hover on figure-eight wings and migrate on a few grams of fat.
Overall 63 🦩Long-legged filter feeders whose bent bills and carotenoid diets turn alkaline lakes into pink cities.
Overall 52 🦜Zygodactyl hookbills whose social brains, mimicry and nest-cavity needs collide with the cage trade.
Overall 58 🪽Dynamic-soaring ocean birds whose metres-long wings and baited longlines now share the same latitudes.
Overall 58