whooping crane: see crane crane, large wading bird found in marshes in the Northern Hemisphere and in Africa. Although sometimes confused with herons, cranes are more closely related to rails and limpkins.
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Migratory North American bird (Grus americana) and one of the world's rarest birds, on the verge of extinction. The tallest North American bird, it is almost 5 ft (150 cm) tall and has a wingspread of about 7 ft (210 cm). It is white with black-tipped wings, black legs, and a bare red face and crown. Its shrill, whooping call can be heard for 2 miles (3 km). Almost exterminated in the early 20th century, it became the object of intensive conservation efforts; by century's end there were still fewer than 300 wild and captive individuals. See also sandhill crane.
whooping crane [′hu̇p·iŋ ‚krān]
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Whooping crane (Grus americana).
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whooping crane [′hu̇p·iŋ ‚krān]
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Grus americana.A member of a rare North American migratory species of wading birds; the entire species forms a single population.
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