Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region
showing areas
 
 GRUIFORMES
        Gruidae
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Grus grus
Tundra, open forest, steppes, deserts, wooded swamps, marshes and wet meadows, always in or near wet or moist habitats. 
From Scandinavia e across n Russia and c Siberia to Kolyma R. and s to
n Germany, Turkey,n Caspian and Aral seas, Kirghiz steppes and nw Manchuria. 
Winters to nw, ne Africa, Middle East, s India and se Asia.
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Grus canadensis
Open grassland, marshes, swampy lake edges, ponds, rivers, occsionally pine savanna. 
E Siberia w to Kolyma R. and s to Anadyrland.  N. America from w,c Alaska e across n Canada to n Keewatin and s Devon and Baffin islands,
s (locally or formerly) to s Alaska, Oregon, ne Calif., ne Nevada, nc Utah, s Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, S. Dakota, Nebraska, n Illinois, n Ohio,
w,s Ontario and w Quebec; se U.S. from s Mississippi, s Alabama and s Georgia s to s Florida; formerly se Texas.  Cuba and the Isle of Pines.
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Grus leucogeranus
Shallow swamps in forest, steppes on lake shores, tundra. 
Siberia in two isolated locations:  Lowlands of the Ob River. 
Yakutia between the Yana R. and Alazeya River.
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Grus virgo
(Anthropoides
Plains, steppes, desert, fields. 
Nw Africa locally in n Morocco, formerly Algeria and Tunisia; Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Yemen; s Spain and from se Europe e through ne Turkey to n Caspian Sea and Aral Sea, w Kazakhstan, Kirghiz steppes and Altai to se Siberia from s Transbaicalia to Ussuriland and n China from nw 
Sinkiang e through Inner Mongolia to nw Heilungkiang.
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Grus grus
Common Crane
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Local uncommon
has bred: Great Britain,
Spain,Italy,Austria,Czechoslo-
vakia,Ungary,Yugoslavia,
Bulgaria,Greece
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Grus canadensis
Sandhill Crane
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Vagrant
w.Europe
* no map
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Grus leucogeranus
Siberian Crane
rare, endangered
* no map
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Anthropoides virgo
Demoiselle Crane
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Local declining
extinct: Morocco
breed: Algeria, Romania
Ukraine, s.Russia
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Index Families

Gruidae   04 sp --
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2001 by Alberto Masi