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  In flight

Cranes & Waders

Black-necked Crane

Grus nigricollis

• celestial
• 90 km/h
• Near Threatened

Winters in the Phobjikha Valley below Gangtey, where its arrival is welcomed as a quiet annual blessing. The only crane of the high plateau.

Population

roughly 10,000 to 17,000 mature individuals

Habitat

high-altitude alpine wetlands, marshes, and grazed grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau and Himalayan valleys

Diet

tubers, roots, sedge shoots, waste grain, insects, small vertebrates

Size

1.39 m

Wingspan

2.35 m