Meaning of crowned crane in English:
crowned crane
noun
An African crane (bird) with a yellowish bristly crest, a mainly black or dark grey body, a lot of white on the wings, and pink and white cheeks.
Genus Balearica, family Gruidae: two species, in particular B. pavonina
‘It houses over 50 individual birds made up of 12 different species including the sacred ibis, crowned cranes, hammerkop, white-cheeked touraco and lilac breasted roller.’- ‘We came across approximately 150 gray crowned cranes - Uganda's national bird - feeding in pastures.’
- ‘In separate marsh habitats there are cranes too, the crowned crane from Africa, the Manchurian crane from the Orient and our own Sarus.’
- ‘The other species of crane that is in Zambia, is the crowned crane, a very common bird on the Kafue Flats and Luangwa valley.’
- ‘So far taxonomists have identified less than two million distinct species, mostly mammals and birds, such as this crowned crane of East Africa.’
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