Black-necked crane
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The black-necked crane eats plant roots and stems as well as frogs and small birds.
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The black-necked crane eats plant roots and stems as well as frogs and small birds.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Black-necked crane
- Scientific name
- Grus nigricollis
- Japanese name
- オグロヅル
- Group
- Birds
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Family
- Gruidae
- Genus
- Grus
It lives in high mountain marshes, lakes and ponds from northern India to Tibet in China.
At a glance it looks like the red-crowned crane, but as its Japanese name ('black tail') suggests, its tail feathers are black.
To avoid predators, it chooses wide stretches of water for its nest. It looks for food in shallow marshes and grasslands.
Basic data
- Size
- Total length: about 115–125 cm
- Weight
- about 5–7 kg
- Diet
- Plant roots and stems, insects, snails, shrimp, fish, small birds, and rodents
- Range
- Ladakh in northern India to Tibet and Qinghai in China
Where the Black-necked crane has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- オグロヅル
- 简体中文
- 黑颈鹤
- 繁體中文
- 黑頸鶴
- 한국어
- 검은꼬리두루미
- Español
- Grulla cuellinegra
- Français
- Grue à cou noir
- Deutsch
- Schwarzhalskranich
- Português (Brasil)
- Grou-de-pescoço-preto
- Italiano
- Gru dal collo nero
- हिन्दी
- काला-गर्दन सारस
- العربية
- كركي أسود المنقار
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Burung jenjang leher-hitam
- Tiếng Việt
- Sếu cổ đen
- Русский
- Черношейный журавль
- বাংলা
- কালোঘাড় সারস
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 上野動物園 — オグロヅルChecked: 2026-11-03
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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