Species profile
Black-necked Crane
Grus nigricollis
Quick answer
Breeds Tibetan plateau; winters to ne India and s China
- Scientific name
- Grus nigricollis
- Family
- Gruidae
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Genus
- Grus
- Conservation status
- Near Threatened
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