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| Sightings / Found at |
Van vihar |
| Scientific Name | Grus antigone |
| Common Name | Sarus crane |
| Local Name | Sarus |
| Description | Found in northern and central india, sarus cranes are said to pair for life. Dweller of open and well and watered plains. Fantastic courtship display, bowing, streched wings dancing around each other. In pairs, cultivation, marsh and wetlands. |
| Identification | Large tall grey bird. Long bare red legs, head and upper neck red. |
| Size | 156 cm. |
| Flight | Slow rhythmical wing strokes, neck streched in front, legs trailing behind |
| Feeding | Grains, shoot, vegetable matter, insects, stems, straw |
| Nest | Huge mass of reed and rush stems, in flooded paddy field or marsh |
| Egg | 2, pale greenish or pinkish white |
| Call | Loud, sonorous call. Far reaching and trumpeting |
