Red - crowned Crane
Adult red-crowned cranes are named for a patch of red bare skin on the crown, which becomes brighter in the mating season. Overall, they are snow white in color with black on the wing secondaries, which can appear almost like a black tail when the birds are standing, but the real tail feathers are actually white. The estimated total population of the species is only 2,750 in the wild, including about 1,000 birds in the resident Japanese population.[1] Of the migratory populations, about 1,000 winter in China and the remaining winter in Korea.
