About 1.6 million votes recommended the red-crowned crane to be national bird. A source from the China Birds Association said there are more than 9,200 kinds of birds in the world and China is ...

By Mongabay.com The IUCN Red List has long been the globally recognized gauge for assessing how close to extinction a given ...

Covering more than 40,000 hectares, the Zhalong Nature Reserve, in Qiqihar City and where the Zhalong Crane Breeding Center is located, is China's largest state-level protection zone for waterfowl.

Red-crowned crane chicks have fun next to an adult bird at Zhalong National Nature Reserve in Qiqihar, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Wang Yonggang/Xinhua) ...

However, this bird hasn't had the best of luck. It is one of the most endangered birds in the world. Eric Elling at the Denver Zoo estimates that there may be 2,400 Red Crowned Cranes left in the ...

Despite the violence that these forces threaten, the 2½ -mile-wide stretch of border has become an unexpected sanctuary for one of the world’s most endangered birds: the red-crowned crane.

The red-crowned crane is one of the rarest birds in the world; fewer than 3,000 survive in the wild. (The whooping crane, in North America, is even more rare, with 382 in the wild.) ...

The red-crowned crane is Fu’s favorite bird. “You can't image how intelligent they are. They can even recognize your patrol car and greet you when you pass by,” said Fu during one of his patrols for ...

Red-crowned cranes are native to Asia and are one of the largest crane species, according to the zoo. The aquatic species is currently listed as endangered.

How many red-crowned cranes are there? There are fewer than 1,900 living in eastern Russia, China, North Korea and Japan. Only the North American whooping crane is rarer.