Alias crane Scientific name Grus japonensis English name red-crowned crane Crane Gruidae Distribution of the Nenjiang River, Songhua River and Wusuli River basin breeding, the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and coastal winter, in Hebei, Shandong trip to the birds, Taiwan occasionally. She Qin large. Is about 120 centimeters, almost all of feathers pure white. Naked to the head of the bright red; amount of eye and a black feather-first; throat, cheek and neck most of the dark. Black and three sub-Fei Yu, a curved extension of the arcuate. Wei Yu short, white. Mouth gray green, black ash feet. Reed and other habitat in the grassland of the swamps. Red-crowned Crane for Omnivorous animals, and the spring to Caozi seeds for food crops, the summer food more complex and more animal food, animal food is mainly small fish, crustaceans, snails, insects and their larvae, also fresh Frogs and small rodents, plant-based foods are the bud and reed seeds, and other weeds. Winter animal food fish, Nereis, 1.40 clams, snails and crabs. Vegetable seeds and food including Suaeda bud, moss grass roots and nuts. 4 months, the late start nesting red-crowned crane eggs, build nests in shallow water around the ring on the pair subtilis, Meiwo spawning two, male and female take turns hatcheries birds, incubation period of 20 to 33 days. Chicks learn to be flying, Ruqiu, red-crowned crane breeding migration from the Northeast South Winter. He Lei in China, such as the red-crowned crane breeding and wintering areas to establish the Zhalong, to the sea, such as the Yancheng Nature Reserve. Yancheng Nature Reserve in Jiangsu Province, the most overwintering of the red-crowned crane, 2001 amounted to only over 600, now known as the world's largest number of wintering habitat. Red-crowned Crane feather pigment Park pure, elegant elegant body, the ring extraordinary good, "by Andrew Heming" out "in Jiugao Heming, Shengwen in the wild," the best description. In ancient Chinese myth and folklore in as the "crane", as elegant, a symbol of longevity in Chinese poetry and paintings, are often writers, artists, as the main theme and praise.别名 仙鹤 学名 Grus japonensis 英文名 red-crowned crane 鹤科 Gruidae 分布 在嫩江、松花江、乌苏里江流域繁殖,长江下游及沿海越冬,在河北、山东为旅鸟,台湾偶见。 大型涉禽。全长约120厘米,体羽几乎全为纯白色。头顶裸出部分鲜红色;额和眼先微具黑羽;喉、颊和颈大部为暗褐色。次级和三级飞羽黑色,延长弯曲呈弓状。尾羽短、白色。嘴灰绿色,脚灰黑色。 栖息于芦苇及其他荒草的沼泽地带。丹顶鹤为杂食性动物,春季以草籽及作物种子为食,夏季食物较杂,动物性食物较多,主要动物性食物有小型鱼类、甲壳类、螺类、昆虫及其幼虫等,也食蛙类和小型鼠类,植物型食物有芦苇的嫩芽和野草种子等。冬季动物性食物有鱼类、沙蚕、四角蛤蜊、钉螺及其蟹。植物性食物包括碱蓬种子及嫩芽、苔草的根茎和坚果。 4月中、下旬,丹顶鹤开始营巢产卵,筑巢于周围环水的浅滩上的枯草丛中,每窝产卵2枚,雌雄鸟轮流孵卵,孵化期20~33天。待幼鸟学会飞行,入秋后,丹顶鹤从东北繁殖地迁飞南方越冬。我国在丹顶鹤等鹤类的繁殖区和越冬区建立了扎龙、向海、盐城等一批自然保护区。在江苏省盐城自然保护区,越冬的丹顶鹤最多一年达600多只,成为世界上现知数量最多的越冬栖息地。 丹顶鹤羽色素朴纯洁,体态飘逸雅致,鸣声超凡不俗,在《涛经·鹤鸣》中就有“鹤鸣于九皋,声闻于野”的精彩描述。在中国古代神话和民间传说中被誉为“仙鹤”,成为高雅、长寿的象征,在诗词和中国画中,常被文学家、艺术家作为主题而称颂。