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| name = Red-crowned crane<br />
| status_system = iucn3.1<br />
| image = crane_japan2.JPG<br />
| image_width = 250px<br />
| regnum = [[Animalia]]<br />
| classis = [[Aves]]<br />
| ordo = [[Gruiformes]]<br />
| familia = [[Gruidae]]<br />
| genus = ''[[Grus]]''<br />
| binomial = ''Grus japonensis''}}<br />
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The '''Red-Crowned Crane''' or '''Chinese Imperial-Crowned Crane''' (''Grus japonensis''), also called the '''Japanese Crane''' or '''Manchurian crane''', is a large [[Crane (bird)|crane]]. It is the second rarest crane in the world after the North American [[whooping crane]].<ref name="nz">{{cite web |url=http://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/birds/facts/factsheets/fact-redcrowncrane.cfm |title=Red-crowned crane fact sheet |first= |last= |work=nationalzoo.si.edu |year=2013 |accessdate=27 March 2013 |archive-date=11 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011015617/http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Birds/Facts/FactSheets/fact-redcrowncrane.cfm |url-status=dead }}</ref> In East [[Asia]], it is known as a [[symbol]] of luck and fidelity.<ref name="nz"/> At 55 inches high, the crane does not make easy prey, for all that it stands out in its natural habitat of [[marsh]]es and [[swamp]]s. When it matures, the red-crowned crane is snow white with a patch of red skin on its head. Within the [[People's Republic of China (PRC)]] it is the designate '''National bird of the Han [[People's Republic of China]]'''{{refn|name=Gcounts|group=n|''“The Official designated National bird and Awarded Avifaunae emblem of the [[People's Republic of China (PRC)]]” respectively''}}.<br />
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== Description ==<br />
In the spring and summer, the red-crowned crane lives in [[Siberia]], where their eggs hatch. Normally the crane lays two eggs, but usually only one chick survives.<ref name="nz"/> Later, in the autumn, it [[migrate]]s in flocks to [[Korea]], [[Japan]], [[China]], [[Taiwan]], and other countries in East Asia to spend the winter. All red-crowned cranes migrate, except for a flock that stays in [[Hokkaido]], year long.<ref name="nz"/> <br />
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== Diet ==<br />
The crane eats small [[amphibian]]s, aquatic [[invertebrate]]s, insects, and plants that grow in marshes and swamps. <br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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