Siberian Crane
Extremely high risk of extinction in the wild
Vagrant
The Siberian crane, also known as the Siberian white crane or the snow crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes. They are distinctive among the cranes, adults are nearly all snowy white, except for their black primary feathers that are visible in flight and with two breeding populations in the Arctic tundra of western and eastern Russia. The eastern populations migrate during winter to China while the western population winters in Iran and formerly, in Bharatpur, India.
- Range mass
- 4900 to 8600 g
- Range length
- 1080 to 1220 mm
- Range wingspan
- 2.1 to 2.3 m
- Average basal metabolic rate
- N/A cm3.O2/g/hr
- Breeding interval
- Siberian cranes breed once yearly.
- Breeding season
- Breeding occurs from May to August.
- Average eggs per season
- 2
- Range time to hatching
- 27 to 29 days
- Range fledging age
- 70 to 75 days
- Range time to independence
- 8 to 10 months
- Range age at sexual or reproductive maturity (female)
- 3 to 7 years
- Range age at sexual or reproductive maturity (male)
- 3 to 7 years
- Average lifespan
Status: captivity - 82 years
- Average lifespan
Status: wild - unknown years
- Average lifespan
Sex: male
Status: captivity - 36.2 years
- Average lifespan
Sex: female
Status: captivity - 32.3 years
- Average territory size
- 625 km^2
Bartnik, C. 2006. "Grus leucogeranus" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed November 10, 2020 at https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Grus_leucogeranus/
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