Red Crowned Crane
- Grus japonensis
- Manchurian cranes, also known as the red-crowned crane, breed in large wetland areas in temperate East Asia and winter along rivers and in coastal and freshwater marshes in Japan, China, and the Korean Peninsula.
- As generalist feeders, this species eats a wide variety of insects, aquatic invertebrates, fish, amphibians, and rodents, as well as reeds, grasses, heath berries & corn.
- They are well adapted to cold temperatures and feed in deeper water than other cranes.
- All cranes engage in dancing, which includes bowing, jumping, running, stick or grass tossing, and wing flapping, however, Manchurian cranes seem to dance more than other species of cranes.
- Mated pairs of cranes, including Manchurian cranes, engage in unison calling, which is a complex and extended series of coordinated calls.
- The Manchurian crane is seriously threatened by loss of habitat throughout its range.
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