Siberian crane

English

Noun

Siberian crane (plural Siberian cranes)

(ornithology) A large white crane, Grus leucogeranus, which breeds in Arctic Russia and western Siberia.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 870:
  Baby Siberian cranes learning to fly rose briefly against the sky.

Synonyms

(Grus leucogeranus): Siberian white crane, snow crane

Translations

Grus leucogeranus

Bengali: সাইবেরিয়ান সারস (śaiberiẏan śaroś)
Catalan: grua siberiana f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 白鶴／白鹤 (baak⁶ hok^6-2)

Mandarin: 白鶴／白鹤 (zh) (báihè)
Dutch: Siberische witte kraanvogel (nl) m
Finnish: lumikurki (fi)
French: grue de Sibérie (fr) f
German: Nonnenkranich m
Hungarian: hódaru
Italian: gru siberiana f
Korean: 시베리아흰두루미 (siberiahuindurumi)
Latvian: baltā dzērve f, Sibīrijas dzērve f
Navajo: hakʼaz dééł
Polish: żuraw biały (pl) m, żuraw syberyjski m, żuraw śnieżny m
Russian: стерх (ru) m (sterx), бе́лый жура́вль m (bélyj žurávlʹ)
Ukrainian: стерх (uk) m (sterx), журавель білий m (žuravelʹ bilyj)
Zhuang: beghag, roegbeghag

Further reading

Siberian crane on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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