Profile
In flight
Cranes & Waders
Sarus Crane
Antigone antigone
- celestial
- 90 km/h
- Vulnerable
The tallest bird that still takes to the sky, and the one Indian villages tell their children mates for life. Pairs return to the same fields year after year.
- Population
- roughly 15,000 to 17,500 mature individuals
- Habitat
- shallow marshes, monsoon floodplains, village wetlands, and rice fields of South and Southeast Asia
- Diet
- tubers, aquatic plants, rice and other grain, large insects, frogs, snails, small reptiles
- Size
- 1.65 m
- Wingspan
- 2.4 m
