Jenjang dan burung perancah (Cranes & Waders)
Demoiselle Crane
Anthropoides virgo
- legendaris
- 75 km/h
- Risiko rendah
The smallest crane and one of the few birds that clears the Himalayas in flight, riding thin air above 7,000 meters twice a year. Every winter thousands descend on the Jain village of Khichan in Rajasthan, where rooftops and feeding squares fill with cranes the locals hand-feed by the sackful.
- Populasi
- Approximately 170,000-261,000 individuals globally.
- Habitat
- Open, dry grassland and steppe with sparse vegetation, usually within a few hundred meters of water; also semi-arid savanna and high plateaus up to 3,000 m elevation. On wintering grounds favors cultivated fields, rice stubble, and dry savanna, roosting communally in shallow water or on sandbars.
- Fakta menarik
- The Demoiselle Crane is the smallest of the world's crane species, yet it undertakes one of the most grueling migrations of any bird, crossing the Himalayas at altitudes of several thousand meters — sometimes reported near 8,000 m — to reach its wintering grounds in India.
- Sebaran
- Breeds across the Eurasian steppe belt from the Black Sea region through Kazakhstan and Central Asia to Mongolia and northeastern China, with a small disjunct breeding population in Turkey. Fully migratory; winters in sub-Saharan Africa (notably the Sahel/Sudan) and on the Indian subcontinent, crossing the Himalayas en route to South Asia.
- Makanan
- Omnivorous — mainly plant material (seeds, grains, cereal crops, roots, shoots, peanuts, beans) supplemented with insects, small reptiles, and other small invertebrates and vertebrates taken opportunistically.
- Ukuran
- 0,9 m
- Bentang sayap
- 1,67 m
- Masa hidup
- 8,5 tahun
