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Bird from Korea - Siberian White Cranes [시베리아흰두루미]
Subject: Bird from Korea - Siberian White Cranes [시베리아흰두루미]
Poster: Kim Jinsuk (kjs@ns.kordic.re.kr)
Siberian White Cranes J01-from Korea.jpg
File size : 78817 bytes File date : 1999:09:30 09:00:00 Resolution: 640x426 Jpeg process : Baseline Posted Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.animals Posted Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 21:02:05 +0900

Bird from Korea - Siberian White Cranes [시베리아흰두루미]


Siberian White Crane
Grus leucogeranus (Gruidae)
Korean Name: 시베리아흰두루미

This species is extremely rare in Korea.
There is no report of watching this bird in Korea since 1992.

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Siberian Crane, Grus leucogeranus, also known as the Siberian White Crane or the Snow Crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes.

This species breeds in arctic Russia in Yakutia and western Siberia. It is a long distance migrant. The eastern population winters on the Yangtze River and Lake Poyang in China, the central population at Keoladeo National Park, India and the western population in Fereidoonkenar and Esfahan in Iran. It breeds and winters in wetlands, where it feeds on the shoots, roots and tubers of aquatic plants.

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