Red-crowned Crane
タンチョウ · Tanchou
Photo: Christoph Moning / CC BY 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons
- Designated by
- National / Special Natural Monument
- Designation type
- Species
- Designated on
- August 27, 1935
- Prefectures
- Hokkaido
- Scientific name
- Grus japonensis
About the Red-crowned Crane
The Red-crowned Crane is a large crane with red skin on its crown, a white body, and black markings on the face and neck. Adults have white primary flight feathers and black secondaries and tertials. Pairs perform dancing displays during courtship. Japan's wild population lives year-round in eastern Hokkaido and has recovered through protection after approaching extinction. It is designated a national Special Natural Monument.
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Designated as a species without a fixed area. Markers show related prefectures.
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The Red-crowned Crane is designated as a species without a fixed area and lives in places such as Hokkaido.
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