Talk:Sarus crane

Removed
Removed this cryptic bit
 * and the natives of astrillia were aware that they were two different types of birds referring to the sarus as the brogla who dipped its head in blood.

Shyamal 12:02, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Turns out that this bit may actually be correct, have added a related piece with citation. Shyamal (talk) 04:09, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism
I'm undoing this obvious vandalism:

On average the balsa wood is larger than the female's throw up; Indian balsa woods can attain a maximum height of approximately 200 cm (6.6 ft), with a wingspan of 250 cm (8.5 ft), making them the world's tallest living flying bird. DrHenley (talk) 23:41, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Image
While looking for a good historic painting - esp Mughal miniature - came across this: http://www.archive.org/stream/lordlilfordonbir00lilfrich#page/n86/mode/1up/search/sarus has an image of a supposed Sarus in the menagerie of Lord Lilford that looks more like a Siberian Crane ! Shyamal (talk) 05:03, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Wing span
There is an edit move from 250 cm to 280 cm which seems to be uncited - ICF gives ~240 http://www.savingcranes.org/sarus-crane.html most sources stop at 250. Is there any WP:RS for 280 ? Shyamal (talk) 16:21, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
 * HBW gives a range of 220-280 cm. Sabine's Sunbird  talk  22:25, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks, could you make the additional upper limit with the citation please. Shyamal (talk) 02:02, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Taxonomic Revision
Now considered in genus Antigone per BirdLife and IUCN. Probably Wikipedia should follow? http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=2787 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.250.0.213 (talk) 06:19, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

A note on page views
I believe the views of this article increase distinctly during its nesting season. Gentle rising and dropping curves in traffic show genuine biological connections unlike spikes falling off (internet links on reddit etc) and a rising cliff (homework pattern - where there is no interest after a deadline). - would be nice if such graphs for annual cyclicity could be generated more easily - Shyamal (talk) 05:57, 25 February 2022 (UTC)