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Crowned Cranes
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Crowned Cranes

Balearica

The bird genus Balearica (also called the crowned cranes) contains two extant species in the crane family Gruidae: the black crowned crane (B. pavonina) and the grey crowned crane (B. regulorum).

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Gray Crowned-Crane

speciesBalearica regulorum

Black Crowned Crane

speciesBalearica pavonina

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49.