La historia
On March 28, 2018, I photographed this Red-crowned Crane (Grus japonensis) at the Zhangye National Wetland Park in Zhangye, Gansu, China. Its migratory populations breed in far eastern Russia and Northeast China and winter on the Korean Peninsula and in east-central China. It is named for the patch of bare red skin on its crown, which gets brighter in the breeding season. It is snow white with black secondaries, which can look like a black tail when the bird is standing. IUCN lists the species as Vulnerable. The park lies along the Heihe, the second-longest inland-draining river in China, at about 1,440 to 1,470 meters above sea level.
I used a Pentax K-1 and the HD PENTAX-D FA 150-450mm F4.5-5.6ED DC AW for this one, at 1/3200 sec, f/5.6, ISO 400. Wetlands like this one are a stopover for migrating birds in the dry Hexi Corridor, and their protection depends on keeping water in the Heihe.
©2018 Adam Rainoff Photographer
El ave
The Red-crowned Crane (Grus japonensis) pertenece a la familia Gruidae (Cranes) en la taxonomía eBird/Clements.
Fuente: eBird.org (se abre en una pestaña nueva)
Conservación
Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2021), with the population trend listed as decreasing. Fuente: Lista Roja de la UICN
