🐦Red-crowned Crane
The red-crowned crane, also called the Japanese crane and the Manchurian crane, is a large Northeast Asian crane among the rarest cranes in the world. In some parts of its range, it is known as a symbol of luck, longevity, and fidelity.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.
- Body mass
- 8.79 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 25 years
Everything we know about the Red-crowned Crane
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass8.79 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 8.5 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.24 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.62 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.16 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.28 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan25 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Gestation31 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 2AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelOmnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatWetlandAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleTerrestrialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l8.8 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 Red-crowned Crane yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderGruiformes
- ›familyGruidae
- ›genusGrus
- ›speciesGrus japonensis
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyGruidae
All 10 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyGruidae
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