The Cranes
Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan
The central population of the endangered Siberian Crane at Keoladeo National Park in India. The population contained more than 30 individuals through the early 1980s. No birds were seen on the wintering grounds in 1993-94 and 1994-95. Four individuals reappeared at Keoladeo National Park in February 1996. |
Compiled by
Curt D. Meine and George W. Archibald
IUCN/SSC Crane Specialist Group
This resource is based on the following source:
Meine, Curt D. and George W. Archibald (Eds). 1996. The cranes: - Status survey and conservation action plan. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, and Cambridge, U.K. 294pp.This resource should be cited as:
Meine, Curt D. and George W. Archibald (Eds). 1996. The cranes: - Status survey and conservation action plan. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, and Cambridge, U.K. 294pp. Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Online. http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/birds/cranes/index.htm (Version 02MAR98).
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Executive Summary
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Acronyms Used in Text
- Section 1: Conservation Biology of Cranes
- Section 2: Species Accounts
- Introduction to Species Accounts
- Black Crowned Crane (Balearica pavonina)
- Grey Crowned Crane (Balearica regulorum)
- Demoiselle Crane (Anthropoides virgo)
- Blue Crane (Anthropoides paradisea)
- Wattled Crane (Bugeranus carunculatus)
- Siberian Crane (Grus leucogeranus)
- Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis)
- Sarus Crane (Grus antigone)
- Brolga (Grus rubicundus)
- White-naped Crane (Grus vipio)
- Hooded Crane (Grus monachus)
- Eurasian Crane (Grus grus)
- Whooping Crane (Grus americana)
- Black-necked Crane (Grus nigricollis)
- Red-crowned Crane (Grus japonensis)
- Section 3: Recommended Conservation Actions
- Literature
- Appendices
- Appendix 1 -- IUCN/SSC and BirdLife International Crane Specialist Group Members
- Appendix 2 -- Crane Working Groups
- Appendix 3 -- New IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria
- Appendix 4 -- Preparing National Crane Action Plans
- Appendix 5 -- Securing Support for Crane Conservation Projects
- Topics
- Figures and Tables
- Figure 1.1 -- Phlogenetic tree of cranes
- Figure 1.2 -- Facial features of the world's cranes
- Figure 2.1 -- Whooping Crane winter
populations (1938-1995)
- Table 1.1 -- Proposed conservation status of cranes under the revised IUCN categories
- Table 1.2 -- Population estimates for crane taxa
- Table 1.3 -- Threats to cranes
- Table 1.4 -- Crane workshops and symposia
- Table 1.5 -- Crane studbook keepers and program coordinators (as of October 1995)
- Table 3.1 -- Distribution of cranes by region
- Table 3.2 -- Contracting parties to the Ramsar Convention
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