The Brolga, Sarus Crane ( Grus antigone ), and White-naped Crane ( G. vipio ) were seen as forming a natural group on the basis of similarities in calls in 1976.

** White-naped Crane, Grus vipio

* Grus vipio White-naped Crane

* White-naped Crane

These include the extremely rare Red-crowned Crane ( a staple of Asian art ), and the White-naped Crane as well as, potentially, the extremely rare Korean Tiger, Amur leopard and Asiatic black bear.

These wetlands, while significantly degraded and overdeveloped, still provide habitat to a significant number of rare and threatened species, most especially birds ( such as the Baikal Teal, Anas formosa, and White-naped Crane, Grus vipio ), fish and plants.

Upo provides habitat to large numbers of migrant birds, including other rare species such as the White-naped Crane and Taiga Bean Goose.

The White-naped Crane ( Grus vipio ) is a bird of the crane family.

Due to ongoing habitat loss and overhunting in some areas, the White-naped Crane is evaluated as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

* White-naped Crane ( Grus vipio ) from Cranes of the World ( 1983 ) by Paul Johnsgard

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At one important lake in Jiangxi Province in China the Siberian Cranes feed on the mudlfats and in shallow water, the White-naped Cranes on the wetland borders, the Hooded Cranes on sedge meadows and the last two species also feed on the agricultural fields along with the Common Cranes.

Bird species include the endangered Indian Bustard ( Ardeotis nigriceps ), and Lesser Florican ( Eupodotis indica ), and the near-endemic White-naped tit which inhabits the thorny scrub areas of the ecoregion.

The White-naped Woodpecker is a large species at 29 cm in length.

Populations from Costa Rica south are sometimes considered a separate species, the White-naped Pigeon, P. albilinea.

Other than those species formerly considered to be subspecies, the Great Tit's closest relatives are the White-naped and Green-backed Tits of southern Asia.

White-naped Cranes often nest near Red-crowned Cranes but competition is lessened by the greater portion of vegetation in the White-naped's diet.

The White-naped Woodpecker, Chrysocolaptes festivus, is a woodpecker which is a widespread but scarce breeder in India and Sri Lanka.

The adult male White-naped Woodpecker has a red crown and females have a yellow crown.

The You Yangs are home to more than 200 bird species such as White-naped, White-plumed, New Holland and Brown-capped Honeyeaters, Kookaburras, White-winged Choughs, Crested Shrike-tits, Purple-crowned Lorikeets, Eastern Yellow Robins, and Scarlet Robins, as well as Eastern Grey Kangaroos, Sugar Gliders, Brushtail and Ringtail Possums and Koalas.

White-naped crane arp. jpg | At Cotswold Wildlife Park, England

In Europe, the Common Crane predominantly breeds in boreal and taiga forest and mixed forests, from an elevation of sea-level to.

In Great Britain the Common Crane became extirpated in the 17th century, but a tiny population now breeds again in the Norfolk Broads and is slowly increasing and a reintroduction is planned for the Somerset levels.

The Sarus Crane breeds in some high elevation regions such as near the Pong Dam in Himachal Pradesh, where populations may be growing in response to increasing rice cultivation along the reservoir.

It has a larger area of bare red facial skin above the white patch than the smaller nominate species, B. r. regulorum ( South African Crowned Crane ), which breeds from Angola south to South Africa.

The Black-necked Crane ( Grus nigricollis ) is a medium-sized crane in Asia that breeds on the Tibetan Plateau and winters mainly in remote parts of India and Bhutan.

The Hooded Crane breeds in south-central and south-eastern Siberia.

The Sandhill Crane ( Grus canadensis ) is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia.

In the spring and summer, the migratory populations of the Red-crowned Crane breed in Siberia ( eastern Russia ), northeastern China and occasionally in northeastern Mongolia ( i. e., Mongol Daguur Strictly Protected Area ).

Demoiselle Crane s in Mongolia.

The Demoiselle Crane, Anthropoides virgo, is a species of crane found in central Eurasia, ranging from the Black Sea to Mongolia and North Eastern China.

The film was based on the fourth novel in a pentalogy, known in China as the Crane Iron Pentalogy, by wuxia novelist Wang Dulu.

She was an heiress to the Crane piping, valves and elevator fortune, the former wife of Robert Leatherbee, a daughter of Charles R. Crane, a U. S. minister to China, and a sister of Richard Teller Crane II, a U. S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia.

Crane mythology is widely spread and can be found in areas such as the Aegean, South Arabia, China, Korea, Japan and in the Native American cultures of North America.

* Three White Cranes, Two Flyways, One World An educational website that links schools along the eastern Whooping Crane flyway in the USA with schools along the eastern flyways of the Siberian and Red-crowned Cranes in Russia and China.

In China, the Red-crowned Crane is often featured in myths and legends.

Because of its importance in Chinese culture, the Red-crowned Crane was selected by the National Forestry Bureau of the People's Republic of China as a candidate for the title of national animal of China.

* Collective Identity, Symbolic Mobilization, and Student Protest in Nanjing, China, 1988-1989, Crane, George T

President William Howard Taft appointed Crane minister to China on July 16, 1909, but on the eve of his departure to his post on October 4, 1909, he was recalled to Washington and forced to resign under pressure by U. S. Secretary of State Philander C. Knox, who held him responsible for the publication in a Chicago newspaper of the U. S. government's objections to two recent treaties between Japan and China.

Crane was appointed U. S. Minister to China by President Wilson and served from March 22, 1920, to July 2, 1921.

Together with Richard Crane he was awarded the 1992 Mungo Park Medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for his journeys in Tibet, China, Afghanistan and Africa.