Siberian Crane (Leucogeranus leucogeranus)
About the Siberian Crane
The Siberian crane (Leucogeranus leucogeranus), 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, except for their black primary feathers that are visible in flight, and with two breeding populations in the Arctic tundra of western and eastern Russia. The eastern populations migrate during winter to China, while the western population winters in Iran and (formerly) in Bharatpur, India.
A real field recording of the Siberian Crane. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
2 recordings on this page · licensed Public Domain / CC0 ×1 · CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in China, Mongolia, Russia, Taiwan (China) · xeno-canto lists 40 recordings for this species in total.
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- Barn SwallowHirundo rusticarecording
- Black KiteMilvus migransrecording
- Black-faced BuntingEmberiza spodocephalarecording
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundusrecording
- Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopusrecording
- BluethroatLuscinia svecicarecording
These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.