Siberian crane
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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, exc
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Mughal era painting of a Siberian crane by Ustad Mansur (c. 1625)
Juveniles at Oka Nature Reserve nursery
A Siberian crane in Keoladeo National Park, near Bharatpur, India, in 1996.
Poyang Lake
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Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in China. Located within Jiujiang Prefecture in Jiangxi Province, it is fed by the Gan, Xin, and Xiu rivers and flows northward into the Yangtze River throug
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…The world population was estimated in 2010 at about 3,200 birds, mostly belonging to the eastern population with about 93% of them wintering in the Poyang Lake basin in China, a habitat that may be altered by the Three Gorges Dam. The population in 2024 was estimated to have expanded to about 5,500 individuals…
Birds at Poyang Lake, 2014
Poyang Lake fisherman who lives and feeds himself on a small fishing boat all year round
Sandy shore of the lake
Ziyang Embankment