Talk:Crane (bird)

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Homosexual behaviour

The crane is one of the many birds displaying homosexual behaviour, listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_displaying_homosexual_behavior#cite_note-Bag-Rail-48 . I think this should be added to the breeding/mating section of this page. This is a very pertinent fact, since this bird is in the national flag of Uganda, a country that has voted for a law that imprisons LGBT people for life. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.169.150.9 (talk) 11:31, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Whooper Crane (sic)

How certain is this "Whooper Crane" name? I've never heard it called anything but "Whooping Crane" myself, and I used to know a fair bit about them (which I'll probably have to re-learn when I write the article to go with my pictures). -- John Owens 11:33 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Extremely uncertain: I think I must have been thinking of the swan. Apologies, I'll correct it, jimfbleak 11:51 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)

While I think of it, I'll complete the species list too. Jim

Homework

I'm doing a report on cranes of the bible and I need to include specific information. As I was reading this article, I was expecting to find something about crane habitat. If you are reading my article now and you know the answer to my scholar ordeal, please enter your habitat information into the existing article for me ASAP. Please, I do not have time to get any secondary resources in time for my project to be due. Thank You,

      Chrissy N. 
              Grade 6.

Rerated as C

Needs more info on ecology, for starters. Casliber (talk · contribs) 06:30, 27 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Red-crowned crane taxonomy

Why is the Red-crowned Crane listed as a typical crane (in Gruinae), and not a crowned crane (Balearicinae)? Aboctok (talk) 05:08, 12 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Heron

Why does this article have a link "See also: Heron" at the beginning?
This makes it look like these are synonymous, or ambiguous, or in some way related. Well yes, they are both birds, and they both have long legs, but that's about it. You might as well have "See also: Chicken" at the top of the article.
Same thing vice versa in the Heron article. --93.212.250.139 (talk) 17:05, 3 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, have removed. Sabine's Sunbird talk 20:17, 16 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Crane (bird)

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Crane (bird)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "IOC":

From Great egret: Gill, F.; Donsker, D., eds. (2014). "IOC World Bird List (v 4.4)". doi:10.14344/IOC.ML.4.4. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
From Purple heron: Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2015). "IOC World Bird List (version 5.3)". doi:10.14344/IOC.ML.5.3. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
From Grey heron: Gill, F.; Donsker, D., eds. (2017). "IOC World Bird List (v 7.2)". doi:10.14344/IOC.ML.7.2. Retrieved 10 July 2017.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 22:20, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Evolution section - vague wording

The wording in the Evolution is subjective and vague with words like "apparently" and "presumably" and no references. I would have a go at editing it but I'm not a crane expert and not confident I can do it accurately. Stanlavisbad (talk) 06:48, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Confusing sentence fragment

This article contains the following sentence:

"Most species of cranes and change the intensity of colour."

I am not sure what this is trying to say, so I am not sure how it should be updated to be more clear. BruteForceBagel (talk) 09:01, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]