What is Crane (bird)?
{{Taxobox | name = Cranes | image = Common Cranes (Grus grus)- Adults & Immatures at Bharatpur I IMG 5659.jpg | image_width = 230px | image_caption = [[Common crane]]s (''Grus grus'') in [[Rajasthan]] | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Aves]] | ordo = [[Gruiformes]] | familia = '''Gruidae''' | familia_authority = [[Nicholas Aylward Vigors|Vigors]], [[1825]] | subdivision_ranks = [[Genus|Genera]] | subdivision = *''[[Grus]]'' *''[[Anthropoides]]'' *''[[Balearica]]'' *''[[Bugeranus]]'' }} [[File:Pine, Plum and Cranes.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Pine, Plum and Cranes, 1759 AD, by Shen Quan (1682—1760): hanging scroll, ink and colour on silk. The Palace Museum, [[Beijing]]]] [[File:Sandhill bare areas.jpg|thumb|250px|The bare area of skin on the face of a [[sandhill crane]]. This can change colour or even expand in area when the bird is excited]] A '''crane''' is a type of tall [[wikt:wade|wading]] birds from the [[Family (biology)|family]] '''Gruidae''' ([[Order (biology)|order]] [[Gruiformes]]). There are 15 [[species]] in 4 [[genera]]. The tallest is the [[sarus crane]], ''Grus antigone'', which can grow to a height of up to 1.8&nbsp;m (5.9&nbsp;ft),<ref name=wood>Wood T.C. & Krajewsky C. 1996. Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation among the subspecies of sarus crane (''Grus antigone'') (PDF). ''The Auk'' '''113''' (3): 655–663. [http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v113n03/p0655-p0663.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015143428/http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v113n03/p0655-p0663.pdf |date=2008-10-15 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Vyas, Rakesh|title=Status of sarus crane ''Grus antigone antigone'' in Rajasthan and its ecological requirements|journal=Zoos' Print Journal|volume=17|year=2002|issue=2|pages=691–695|doi=10.11609/JoTT.ZPJ.17.2.691-5|url=http://www.zoosprint.org/ZooPrintJournal/2002/February/691-695.pdf}}</ref> Cranes look a lot like [[heron]]s but they are usually larger, and have a partly [[naked]] head, and a more heavy [[bill]]. When they are fl