- Look up
crane or
cranes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Crane or
cranes may
refer to:
Crane (bird), a large, long-necked bird
Crane (machine), industrial...
- fit the
above definition of a
crane, but are
generally known as
cranes, such as
stacker cranes and
loader cranes.
Cranes were so
called from the resemblance...
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sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) is a
species of
large cranes of
North America and
extreme northeastern Siberia...
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common crane (Grus grus), also
known as the
Eurasian crane, is a bird of the
family Gruidae, the
cranes. A medium-sized species, it is the only
crane commonly...
- the face, but the
crowned cranes of the
genus Balearica have vibrantly-coloured
wings and
golden "crowns" of feathers.
Cranes fly with
their necks extended...
- 21 wild (and two captive)
cranes remaining by 1941,
conservation efforts led to a
partial recovery. The
total number of
cranes in the
surviving migratory...
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thousand origami cranes (千羽鶴, senbazuru, lit. 'one
thousand cranes') are made, one for each year. In some stories, it is
believed that the
cranes must be completed...
-
keeps cranes. Some
literati even
reared cranes and
trained them to
dance to
guqin music. The Ming and Qing
dynasties endowed the red
crowned crane with...
- the
cranes,
which has been lost in the
other subfamily.
Crowned cranes also lack a
coiled trachea and have
loose plumage compared to the
other cranes. The...
- Eucalyptus-dominated
woodlands and gr****lands in Australia. The
sarus crane is
easily distinguished from
other cranes in the
region by its
overall grey
colour and the contrasting...
