Nature & geography・Hokkaido

Red-crowned craneTancho

Also known as: タンチョウ・Tancho

A Special Natural Monument crane emblematic of Kushiro Marsh. With a red crown and famed for its courtship dance on snowfields, it is protected as a symbol of the wetlands of eastern Hokkaido.

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