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4 unusual facts about Siberian Crane


Blue Crane

Even species with lower population numbers now (such as Siberian or Whooping Cranes) are found over a considerable range in their migratory movements.

Danapur

Danapur is a shelter and hatchery for the migrating Siberian Cranes, locally called Janhgil..

Three Gorges Dam

Of the 3,000 to 4,000 remaining critically endangered Siberian Crane, a large number currently spend the winter in wetlands that will be destroyed by the Three Gorges Dam.

White Crane

Siberian Crane, a nearly all snowy white birds in Gruidae family


Bharatpur district

Keoladeo National Park attracts 364 species of birds, including many from India, but also from Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Siberia, China and Tibet, including the rare Siberian Crane.

Ustad Mansur

He was the earliest artist to depict the Dodo in colour, apart from being the first to illustrate the Siberian Crane.

The most significant paintings, in terms of zoology, are those of the Siberian Crane and the Dodo.


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Ustad Mansur

The Siberian Crane painting was made well before it was formally described and given a binomial name by Peter Simon Pallas in 1773.