Grus japonensis
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis), also called the Japanese crane and the Manchurian crane, is a large Northeast Asian crane among the rarest cranes in the world. In some parts of its range, it is known as a symbol of luck, longevity, and fidelity.
Adult red-crowned cranes are named for a patch of red bare skin on the crown, which becomes brighter during 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. Males are black on the cheeks, throat, and neck, while females are pearly gray in these spots. The bill is olive green to a greenish horn, the legs are slate to grayish black, and the iris is dark brown.
Juveniles are a combination of white, partly tawny, cinnamon brown, and rusty or grayish. The neck collar is grayish to coffee brown, the secondaries are dull black and brown, and the crown and forehead are covered with gray and tawny feathers. The primaries are white, tipped with black, as are the upper primary coverts. The legs and bill are similar to those of adults but lighter in color. This species... Wikipedia →
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| 1 | Fuzhou | 🇨🇳 China |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Red-crowned Crane sighting in Fuzhou on a given day, based on 6 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 66th most-seen of the 82 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Red-crowned Crane in Fuzhou on a given day, against under 5% in March to December, the lowest months. That is one of Fuzhou's driest months, with about 60 mm of rain against 250 mm in June.
Only Fuzhou, in our data
Fuzhou is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Red-crowned Crane sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Gruiformes
The closest relatives of the Red-crowned Crane that you can see in Fuzhou (order Gruiformes, Cranes, Rails, and Allies) are White-breasted Waterhen (about 20%), Common Moorhen (about 10%) and Brown-cheeked Rail (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Red-crowned Crane is recorded against all the birds logged in Fuzhou (6 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
