What bird is a dancer?

The Whooping Crane is a dancer among birds. The dance of the Danding Crane is mostly a succession of dozens or hundreds of variations of movements. The main movements of the dance are stretching and lifting the head, bending the waist, jumping, jumping and kicking, walking on the wings, bending the back, bowing, and articulating objects, but with different postures, amplitudes, speeds and slownesses.

The Danding Crane, scientifically known as Grusjaponensis, is a large wading bird of the family Craneidae, genus Crane, with a body length of 120-160 centimeters. Neck, feet longer, most of the body white, the top of the head bright red, throat and neck black, ears to the head pillow white, feet black, standing neck, tail feathers and feet black, head red, the rest all white.

When flying, only the secondary and tertiary flight feathers as well as the neck and feet are black, and the rest is all white, which is extremely distinctive and easy to recognize. Juvenile birds have a tan head and neck, and white body feathers with chestnut accents. They often move in pairs or in family groups and small flocks. During the migratory season and winter, they often form larger groups of several or dozens of family groups.

Sometimes clusters of up to 40-50, or even more than 100. However, when active, they are still scattered into small groups or family groups in a certain area. At night, it inhabits the shallows or reed ponds surrounded by water, feeding mainly on fish, shrimp, aquatic insects, mollusks, tadpoles, sandworms, clams, nailsnails, and stems, leaves, roots, bulbs and fruits of aquatic plants.

It is found in northeastern China, eastern Mongolia, the east bank of the Ussuri River in Russia, North Korea, South Korea, and Hokkaido, Japan.