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Grus carunculatus |
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Bugeranus carunculatus |
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Grue caronculée |
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Wattled Crane |
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| Likolongo, Likolwa (Kiluba) ; mu-n-fyungu sp. grue = M-punga-nhenze (Kitabwa); munkolonga, ipanda (Lunda) ; ilikolongo, ikolongo, likolongo (Kibemba) | |
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This large crane can not be confused with another bird. Its long white wattles and its long grey wings are diagnostic. |
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Sedentary bird in Katanga, it is mostly seen in the large graasy plains of the high plateaus. Common in the Upemba and Kundelungu parks, it used to be seen in flocks of up to 20. |
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Usually silent. Still present in our protected areas, the crane is one of the last animals to have escaped poaching. |
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Nidification in the UNP takes place during the rainy season. Elsewhere in Africa, wattled cranes are becoming more and more rare. Constructions of hydroelectric dams in South Africa and in Zimbabwe are one of the causes of this decline by suppressing sites that were adapted for nidification. Indeed, cranes build their nests on the ground in flooded plains in order to escape terrestrial predators.
The Wattled Crane is classified as endangered. |
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Warning :
This database was established according to official pieces of work and with the help of famous scientists. However, there might be some errors.
The vernacular names were collected in the field and in the colonial literature from the first part of the 20th century. The monks who established the first dictionaries were not necessarily informed naturalists. Therefore, errors must have been committed.
We invite everyone who could help us to improve this working tool to contact us in order to correct us and share her/his knowledge with us.
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