Siberian crane

English

Noun

Siberian crane (plural Siberian cranes)

1. (ornithology) A large white crane, Grus leucogeranus, which breeds in Arctic Russia and western Siberia.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 870:

     Baby Siberian cranes learning to fly rose briefly against the sky.

Synonyms

• (Grus leucogeranus): Siberian white crane, snow crane

Translations

Grus leucogeranus

• Bengali: সাইবেরিয়ান সারস (śaiberiẏan śaroś)
• Catalan: grua siberiana f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 白鶴／白鹤 (baak⁶ hok^6-2)

  Mandarin: 白鶴／白鹤 (zh) (báihè)

• Dutch: Siberische witte kraanvogel (nl) m
• Finnish: lumikurki (fi)
• French: grue de Sibérie (fr) f
• German: Nonnenkranich m
• Hungarian: hódaru
• Italian: gru siberiana f
• Korean: 시베리아흰두루미 (siberiahuindurumi)
• Latvian: baltā dzērve f, Sibīrijas dzērve f
• Navajo: hakʼaz dééł
• Polish: żuraw biały (pl) m, żuraw syberyjski m, żuraw śnieżny m
• Russian: стерх (ru) m (sterx), бе́лый жура́вль m (bélyj žurávlʹ)
• Ukrainian: стерх (uk) m (sterx), журавель білий m (žuravelʹ bilyj)
• Zhuang: beghag, roegbeghag

Further reading

• Siberian crane on Wikipedia.Wikipedia