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Crane Japanese
(Grus japonensis)
They reach a length of 158 cm,
weigh up to 7.5 kg. The wingspan is
2 m. For the most part, the plumage
of the bird is snow-white. Adult cranes
wear a kind of “cap” on their heads They are omnivorous, but food
in the form of a skin, where feathers of animal origin predominates in
do not grow, and the skin is colored the diet: amphibians, fish, insects,
purple-red. The neck is black, a white molluscs.
stripe goes down from the eyes.
During summer migrations, representatives
of this population were recorded in the south of
Sakhalin and Moneron Island and the Kamchatka
Peninsula. Representatives of the Hokkaid
population of Japanese cranes live in the South
Kuril Islands.
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