Gruidae
see also: Etymology of Gruidae
The 15 species of cranes constitute the family of the gruidés (or Gruidae ). They are large terrestrial birds (from 90 to 176 centimetre), gracious, with long neck and long legs, the plumage with dominant gray or white.
One finds them on all the continents, excluded the the Antarctic, the islands of Oceania and the South America. One observes the greatest diversity of the kinds in Africa, of the species in Asia. The cranes attend the wetlands or grassy wide.
Alphabetical list of the kinds
- Old-fashioned Anthropoides , 1816
- Balearica Brisson, 1760
- Bugeranus Glomer, 1841
- Grus Pallas, 1766 (including Leucogeranus Bonaparte, 1855) = Sarcogeranus Sharpe, 1893
List species
Subfamily of the Balearicinae Brasil, 1913
- royal Crane - Balearica regulorum (Bennett, 1833) - Grey Crowned Cranium
- crowned Crane - Balearica pavonina (Linnaeus, 1758) - Black Crowned Cranium
Subfamily of the Gruinae Vigors, 1825
- Crane young lady - Anthropoides virgo (Linnaeus, 1758) - Young lady Cranium
- Crane of paradise - Anthropoides paradisea (A.H.H. Lichtenstein, 1793) - Blue Cranium
- caronculée Crane - Bugeranus carunculatus (J.F. Gmelin) - Wattled Cranium
- white Crane - Grus americana (Linnaeus, 1758) - Whooping cranium
- Crane antigone - Grus antigone (Linnaeus, 1758) - Sarus Cranium
- Crane of Canada - Grus canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758) - Sandhill Cranium
- ashy Crane - Grus grus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Common Cranium
- Crane of Japan - Grus japonensis (Muller, 1776) - Japanese Cranium
- Crane of Siberia - Grus leucogeranus Pallas, 1773 - Siberian white Cranium
- Crane monk - Grus monacha Temminck, 1835 - Hooded Cranium
- Crane with black neck - Grus nigricollis Przewalski, 1876 - Black-necked Cranium
- Crane brolga - Grus rubicunda (Perry, 1810) - Brolga
- Crane with white neck - Grus vipio Pallas, 1811 - White-naped Cranium
External bonds
Language
The expression “Bayer with the crows” said “Bayer to the cranes” at the 17th century.The small one of the crane names the gruon .
The crane in the literature
Homère, in Iliade (III, v. 2-7), tells that the cranes attack the Pygmies.