

Red-crowned cranes may live solitarily or in large flocks. Additionally, captive breeding and reintroduction programs are in place to help bolster wild crane populations. To protect cranes, conservation groups have begun to create habitats for them and study their migration paths to better understand their choice of location. In Japan, much of their natural wetland habitat has been destroyed for human settlement and infrastructure, while many of the areas in China used by migrating populations have been converted to farmland. Red-crowned cranes are listed as a vulnerable species.

Males tend to be heavier than females, but sexes are otherwise alike.

Red-crowned cranes stand 5ft to 5.2ft tall and can have a wingspan of 7.3ft up to 8.3ft.
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They are named for the distinctive patch of bare, red skin on the top of their head. The plumage of red-crowned cranes is white, with black tail feathers, neck and face, as well as a row of black feathers on the wings. Japan's population of red-crowned cranes however are residents and do not migrate. Many cranes migrate and spend their summer in Russia, China and Mongolia, and the winter in Korea and China. The Red-Crowned Crane ( Grus japonensis) is a large Asian bird featured in the Wetlands Animal Pack DLC for Planet Zoo.Īmong the largest of cranes, the red-crowned crane (or Grus japonensis) is a species of wading bird native to the wetlands, rivers and tidal flats of eastern Russia, China, Mongolia, Korea and Japan.
