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Siberian_crane

Siberian crane

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Siberian crane (plural Siberian cranes)

  1. A large white crane, Grus leucogeranus, which breeds in Arctic Russia and western Siberia.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 870:
      Baby Siberian cranes learning to fly rose briefly against the sky.

Synonyms

  • Siberian white crane
  • snow crane

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