Bird / Grus antigone
Sarus Crane
High risk of endangerment in the wild
Vagrant
The sarus crane 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, 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.
- Range mass
- 5.0 to 12.0 kg
- Average length
- 1.8 m
- Range wingspan
- 2.5 (low) m
- Breeding interval
- Once yearly
- Breeding season
- June-September
- Range eggs per season
- 1 to 3
- Range time to hatching
- 28 to 31 days
- Average time to independence
- 3 months
Jinks, I. 2015. "Grus antigone" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed November 10, 2020 at https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Grus_antigone/
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