053 Sarus crane in Keoladeo National Park Photo by Giles Laurent🐦

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SpeciesGruiformesGruidae
Birds

🐦Sarus crane

Antigone antigone (Linnaeus, 1758)

The sarus crane is a large nonmigratory crane found in parts of the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and northern Australia. The tallest of the flying birds, standing at a height of up to 1.8 m, they are a conspicuous species of open wetlands in South Asia, seasonally flooded Dipterocarpus forests in Southeast Asia, and Eucalyptus-dominated woodlands and grasslands in Australia.

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Conservation status
Not evaluated

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Key measurements
Body mass
5.92 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Everything we know about the Sarus crane

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

Body mass
5.92 kg
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Tail length
0.24 m
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Wing length
0.6 m
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Beak length
0.18 m
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Tarsus length
0.3 m
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Trophic level
Omnivore
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Habitat
Wetland
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Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Volume l
5.9 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 Sarus crane yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderGruiformes
  5. ›familyGruidae
  6. ›genusGrus
  7. ›speciesGrus antigone
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · 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 · Aves
  10. familyGruidae
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Grua sarus (ca), jeřáb Antigonin (cs), Sarustrane (da), Saruskranich (de), Antigone antigone (es), saruskurki (fi) … and 22 more languages
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