- Hooded Crane
Taxobox
name = Hooded Crane
image_width = 225px
status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1
trend = down
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo =Gruiformes
familia =Gruidae
genus = "Grus"
species = "G. monacha"
binomial = "Grus monacha"
binomial_authority = Temminck, 1835The Hooded Crane, "Grus monacha" is a small, dark crane. It has a grey body. The top of the neck and head is white, except for a patch of bare red skin above the eye. It is one of the smallest cranes, but is still a fairly large bird, at 1 m (3.3 ft) long, a weight of 3.7 kg (8.2 lbs) and a wingspan of 1.87 m (6.2 ft).The Hooded Crane breeds in south-central and south-eastern
Siberia . Breeding is also suspected inMongolia . Over 80% of its population winters at Izumi, southernJapan . There are also wintering grounds inSouth Korea andChina .The estimated population of the species is between 9,500 individuals. The major threats to its survival are wetland loss and degradation in its wintering grounds in China and South Korea as a result of reclamation for development and dam building.
The Hooded Crane is evaluated as Vulnerable on the
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix I and II ofCITES . [* IUCN2006|assessors=BirdLife International|year=2006|id=9522|title=Grus monacha|downloaded=11 May 2006 Database entry includes a range map and justification for why this species is vulnerable] A society, "Grus monacha" International Aid (白头鹤的故事), has been formed to find ways to protect the species. [ [http://www.grusmonacha.org "Grus monacha" International Aid] ]References
External links
* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=2795&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
