RED-CROWNED CRANES
by Eiki Sato
Description
- kingdom:Anamalia, phylum:Chordata, class:Aves, order:Gruifoarmes, family:gruidae, and genius:grus
- white primary feathers with black secondary feathers
- black neck, white nape, and red crown
- height:150cm, wingspan:220-250cm, and weight:7-10kg
- mainly communicate by voice
Habitat
- live in Asia
- mainly two groups:migrating and non-migrating
- migrating:northeast China and southeast Russia
- non-migrating:Hokkaido, Japan
- winter:Korea, Jiungsu, and central east China
- terrain:winter:rivers and freshwater marshes
- terrain:summer:coastal salt marshes, rice paddies, and cultivated fields
- climate: humid continental, subarctic, and semiarid
- build nests on the ground
Adaptation
- adaptation toward cold temperature
- depend on eye sights and hearing skills for protection
- cranes have beaks, well eyes, and the ability to fly
- East Asia species do migrate, but Hokkaido's don't
- when in search of food, they look for specific shapes and patterns
- when cranes mate, they are together until they die, but will replace dead partners
Food Chain
- insects, aquatic invertebrates, fish, amphibians, small rodents, waste grains, reeds, grasses, heath berries, and corn
- find food in deep water marshes, dikes, rice fields, and other croplands
- all cranes are omnivores
- predators to insects, aquatic invertebrates, fish, amphibians, and small rodents
- whether being a prey or not depends on the place, but human is the biggest prey
reasons for endangerment
- mainly two reasons
- human hunt for food and as sport
- habitat loss due to human development and destroying of historic breeding wetlands
- WWII killed most of the cranes that lived in Hokkaido
critical information
- became the national treasure of Japan, leading them to have less chance of being hunted
- organization called Tancho Protection Group(tancho is the japanese name of the red-crowned cranes) protect the cranes in Japan
- Tancho Protection Group is in Hokkaido and gives out food and shelter for the cranes in winter
most of this information was taken from (oibird) and (savecrane)
work cited
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