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Sarus Crane

Antigone antigone

Cranes (Gruidae) · Gruiformes (Gruiformes)

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Often mixed up with

In quizzes, players most often confuse Sarus Crane with these birds— either this species was picked by mistake, or the other way around.

Species Mix-ups
Siberian Crane Leucogeranus leucogeranus 1

Family

Cranes are a type of large bird with long legs and necks in the biological family Gruidae of the order Gruiformes. The family has 15 species placed in four genera which are Antigone, Balearica, Leucogeranus, and Grus. They are large birds with long necks and legs, a tapering form, and long secondary feathers on the wing that project over the tail.

Order

The Gruiformes are an order containing a considerable number of living and extinct bird families, with a widespread geographical diversity. Gruiform means 'crane form'. Traditionally, a number of wading and terrestrial bird families that did not seem to belong to any other order were classified together as Gruiformes.

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