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- Parent taxon
- Grus
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- +5.1
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- Blue Cranes (Anthropoides paradiseus) couple (32611106035).jpg
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- P105
- species
- P141
- Vulnerable
- P9714
- Africa
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The blue crane (Grus paradisea), also known as the Stanley crane and the paradise crane, is the national bird of South Africa. The species is listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN.
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Birds described in 1793Birds of Southern AfricaCite IUCN without doiFauna listed on CITES Appendix IIGrus (bird)IUCN Red List vulnerable speciesNational symbols of South AfricaTaxa named by Anton August Heinrich LichtensteinTaxobox binomials not recognized by IUCNUse South African English from February 2017