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The Wattled Crane, Bugeranus carunculatus is a large bird found in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. The conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species remaining extant either in the present day or the near future. ...
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Typical Classes See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ...
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Families †Gastornithidae Aramidae Psophiidae Rallidae Heliornithidae Rhynochetidae †Aptornithidae Eurypigidae Cariamidae Otidae Gruidae †Phorusrhacidae The diverse order Gruiformes contains about 12 bird families with, on first sight, little in common. ...
Genera Grus Anthropoides Balearica Bugeranus Cranes are large, long-legged and long-necked birds of the order Gruiformes, and family Gruidae. ...
Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger (1803 - 1863) was a German zoologist and ornithologist. ...
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A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ...
The Sahara is the worlds second largest desert (second to Antarctica), over 9,000,000 km² (3,500,000 mi²), located in northern Africa and is 2. ...
At a height of up to 172 cm (6 feet) and an average weigh of 7.8 kg (14 pounds), it is the largest crane in Africa and is the second tallest species of crane, after the Sarus Crane. The back and wings are ashy gray. The feathered portion of the head is dark slaty gray above the eyes and on the crown, but is otherwise white, including the wattles, which are almost fully feathered and hang down from under the upper throat. The breast, primaries, secondaries, and tail coverts are black. The secondaries are long and nearly reach the ground. The upper breast and neck are white all the way to the face. The skin in front of the eye extending to the base of the beak and tip of the wattles is red and bare of feathers and covered by small round wart-like bumps. Wattled Cranes have long bills and black legs and toes. Males and females are virtually indistinguishable, although males tend to be slightly larger. A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ...
Binomial name Grus antigone Linnaeus, 1758 The Sarus Crane (Grus antigone) is a resident breeding bird in northern India, Nepal, Southeast Asia and Queensland, Australia. ...
Juveniles have tawny body plumage, lack the bare skin on the face, and have less prominent wattles.
Range
The Wattled Crane occurs in eleven sub-Saharan countries in Africa, including an isolated population in the highlands of Ethiopia. More than half of the world’s Wattled Cranes occur in Zambia, but the single largest concentration occurs in the Okavango Delta of Botswana. Wattled Cranes are thought to have historically ranged over a much larger area including coastal West Africa. Elephants in the Okavango Delta seen from the dubious safety of a makoro (small boat). ...
 Head of Wattled Crane, showing distinctive wattles
Diet All cranes are omnivorous. The principal food of the Wattled Crane is aquatic vegetation, including the tubers and rhizomes of submerged sedges and water lilies. In particular, Wattled Cranes depend heavily on the sedge Eleocharis spp. In dryer upland habitats, Wattled Cranes forage for grain, grass seeds, and insects, and they make use of agricultural fields when convenient.
Threats Destruction, alteration, and degradation of wetland habitats constitute the most significant threats to the Wattled Crane. Hydroelectric power projects and other water development have caused fundamental changes in the species expansive floodplain habitats, and their most important food source Eleocharis spp. Human and livestock disturbance, powerline collisions, mass aerial spraying tsetse flies, and illegal collection of eggs, chicks and adults for food are also significant threats to Wattled Cranes throughout their range. The population is about 8,000.
The Wattled Crane is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. The AEWA - The Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds - is an independent international treaty developed under the auspices of the UNEP/Convention on Migratory Species. ...
References - International Crane Foundation's Wattled Crane page
- Johnsgard PA. 1983. Cranes of the world. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Meine CD, Archibald GW. 1996.
- The Cranes: status survey and conservation action plan. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
External links - BirdLife Species Factsheet.
- International Crane Foundation's Wattled Crane page
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