These are large, long-legged and long-necked birds, their height is 90-155 cm, wingspan 150-240 cm, weight 11.2 kg. The smallest crane - belladonna, the biggest - Australian. Height subspecies G. a. antigone the Australian crane, living in India, reaches 175 cm, making it the highest flying bird in the world. The hardest part is the Japanese crane, the weight fall up to 11 kg. Unlike similar to them, but having a very distantly related herons in flight stretched legs and neck. It makes them look like a stork, but unlike them, cranes never sit on trees. Head small, sharp straight beak. On the head of the majority of land neoperennoy and brightly colored skin. Tertiary feathers of the wings slightly elongated, so that the tail seems long and lush, the bird on the ground. Plumage usually gray or white. If visual comparison with other cranes wading birds, as compared with herons their legs are generally longer and more elongated neck, and compared with storks sleeker body, longer legs, and beak proportionally less.
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Subject: Nastoyaschie Cranes
These are large, long-legged and long-necked birds, their height is 90-155 cm, wingspan 150-240 cm, weight 11.2 kg. The smallest crane - belladonna, the biggest - Australian. Height subspecies G. a. antigone the Australian crane, living in India, reaches 175 cm, making it the highest flying bird in the world. The hardest part is the Japanese crane, the weight fall up to 11 kg.
Unlike similar to them, but having a very distantly related herons in flight stretched legs and neck. It makes them look like a stork, but unlike them, cranes never sit on trees. Head small, sharp straight beak. On the head of the majority of land neoperennoy and brightly colored skin. Tertiary feathers of the wings slightly elongated, so that the tail seems long and lush, the bird on the ground. Plumage usually gray or white. If visual comparison with other cranes wading birds, as compared with herons their legs are generally longer and more elongated neck, and compared with storks sleeker body, longer legs, and beak proportionally less.