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The sarus crane (Antigone antigone) is a large non-migratory crane found in parts of the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and Australia. The tallest of the flying birds, standing at a height up to 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in), they are a conspicuous species of open wetlands in south Asia, seasonally flooded Dipterocarp forests in Southeast Asia, and Eucalyptus-dominated woodlands and grasslands in Australia
Scientific Name : Antigone Antigone
Family : Gruidae
Order : Gruiformes
Class : Aves
Type : Cranes
Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
Size : 180 cm
Compare Size : Vulture +
Wingspan : 220 - 250 cm
Weight : 6800 - 7800 g
Migratory : Resident
Sex Alike : Yes
Nesting Season : July - December
Other Names :
Hindi : सारस
Marathi : सारस क्रौंच
Habitat:
shallow wetlands, wet grasslands
Breeding:
Eggs - 2, Pale greenish or pinkish white. Sometimes spotted and blotched with brown or purple.
Feeding:
They were observed to feed on grain, nuts, and insects from a range of crop fields, including stubble of maize and peanut crops, hay crops, fields with potato, legumes and seed crops, and after harvest in fields of sugarcane, grass, and fodder crops
| Male & Female | |
|---|---|
| Head | bare; with red colouration execpt crown area; narrow area around and behind the head is covered by black bristly feathers |
| Neck | part of upper neck is bare and coloured red; followed by white gradullay becoming grey towards the bottom |
| Crown | bare; greyish |
| Primaries | black |
| Auriculars or Ear Patches or ear coverts | small grey patch |
| Legs | pink |
| Iris | orange-red |
| Note : most of plumage grey; males are on average larger than females |
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| Juvenile | |
|---|---|
| Note : head brown-grey and is fully feathered; rest of the plumage is grey with some brown in it |
| Date | Location |
|---|---|
| 31 Jan 2019 | Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, Rajasthan |
