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SpeciesGruiformesGruidae
Birds

🐦Common Crane

Grus grus (Linnaeus, 1758)

De kraanvogel (Grus grus) is een vogel uit de familie van de kraanvogels (Gruidae). Deze soort wordt ook wel aangeduid met de naam Europese of Euraziatische kraanvogel om de soort te onderscheiden van de diverse andere soorten kraanvogels buiten Europa. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd in 1758 als Ardea Grus gepubliceerd door Carl Linnaeus. De soort broedt in hoogveenmoerassen en wordt in het oosten van de Lage Landen vooral als doortrekker waargenomen.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
5.5 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
43 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common Crane

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
5.5 kg
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

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  • 5.5 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.19 m
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.54 m
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.11 m
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.23 m
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
43 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge Β· AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) Β· CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Herbivore
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Wetland
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Volume l
5.5 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common Crane yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. β€ΊphylumChordata
  3. β€ΊclassAves
  4. β€ΊorderGruiformes
  5. β€ΊfamilyGruidae
  6. β€ΊgenusGrus
  7. β€ΊspeciesGrus grus
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds Β· Aves
  4. familyGruidae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds Β· Aves
  10. familyGruidae
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Closest relative on this site
🐦 Common Coot β€” last shared an ancestor β‰ˆ 52 million years ago.
In other languages
灰鹀 (zh), ΕΌuraw (pl), Grus grus (es), daru (hu), kraanvogel (nl), trana (sv) … and 28 more languages
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