whooping crane

Grus americana
Grus americana#Translingual

Grus americana, a species of crane native to North America.


sandhill crane

Grus canadensis
Grus canadensis#Translingual

A crane native to North America and parts of Siberia (Antigone canadensis, syn. Grus canadensis).


colt

en-verb

colt (third-person singular simple present colts, present participle colting, simple past and past participle colted)

colts (present singular third-person)
colting (participle present)
colted (participle past)
colted (past)

From Middle English colt, from Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, boy, lad”). Related to child.

der

(obsolete, transitive) To horse; to get with young.


crane

→ Burmese: ကရိန်း (ka.rin:)

→ Hindi: क्रेन (kren)

→ Irish: craein

→ Japanese: クレーン (kurēn)

→ Korean: 크레인 (keurein)

→ Malay: kren

→ Maori: kareni

→ Tagalog: kreyn

→ Thai: เครน (kreen)

From Middle English crane, from Old English cran (“crane”), from Proto-West Germanic *kran, from Proto-Germanic *kranô (“crane”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”).
Cognate with Scots cran (“crane”), Dutch kraan (“crane”), German Kran (“crane”). The mechanical devices are named from their likeness to the bird.

Ardea herodias
Ardea herodias#Translingual

(US, dialect) Ardea herodias, the great blue heron.


native companion

en-noun

native companion (plural native companions)

Grus rubicunda
Grus rubicunda#Translingual

(dated) The brolga or Australian crane (Antigone rubicunda, syn. Grus rubicunda).


brolga

But he did not value Red Ochre simply as a grazing-lease. At times it was to him six hundred square miles where grazing grew and brolgas danced in the painted sunset and emus ran to the silver dawn […].

1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, page 90

We wade through the delicate water, the moon spilling on our colourless bodies. Brolgas ruffling their wings against water ribbons, making the muddy bath flinch in coiling waves.

2006, Tara June Winch, Swallow the Air, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 241

A large grey crane (Antigone rubicunda, syn. Grus rubicunda), of northern and eastern Australia.


whooper

Cygnus cygnus
Cygnus cygnus#Translingual


demoiselle

Borrowed from French demoiselle. The bird is so called on account of the grace and symmetry of its form and movements. Doublet of damsel, doncella, and donzella.


Siberian crane

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

2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 870

Grus leucogeranus
Grus leucogeranus#Translingual

(ornithology) A large white crane, Grus leucogeranus, which breeds in Arctic Russia and western Siberia.


demoiselle crane

en-noun

demoiselle crane (plural demoiselle cranes)

A crane, Grus virgo (syn. Anthropoides virgo), found in central Asia, 85-100 centimeters long with a loud trumpeting call.


sandhill

Adult sandhills can be 4 to 5 feet tall.

1997, Lynn M. Stone, Sandhill Cranes, page 7


crowned crane

Balearica pavonina
Balearica pavonina#Translingual

Balearica regulorum
Balearica regulorum#Translingual

Either of two species of crane of the genus Balearica (Black Crowned Crane, Balearica pavonina and Grey Crowned Crane, Balearica regulorum) from sub-Saharan Africa.


coolung

The great grey crane (Grus grus) as found in India.


common crane

Grus grus, a bird of the crane (Gruidae) family


sarus crane

A crane (Antigone antigone) native to India, Southeast Asia, and northern Australia.


trumpeter crane

trumpeter crane (plural trumpeter cranes)

(rare, dated) Any of several large waders, including the whooping crane, the sandhill crane, and various egrets and trumpeters.


Japanese crane

red-crowned crane
red-crowned crane#English


Manchurian crane

Manchurian crane (plural Manchurian cranes)


hooded crane

Grus monacha, a bird of the crane (Gruidae) family, native to East Asia


wattled crane

Grus carunculata
Grus carunculata#Translingual

Grus carunculata, a bird of the crane (Gruidae) family


white-naped crane

white-naped crane (plural white-naped cranes)

Antigone vipio
Antigone vipio#Translingual

Antigone vipio, a bird of the crane (Gruidae) family


blue crane

Grus paradisea
Grus paradisea#Translingual

Grus paradisea, a bird of the crane (Gruidae) family


black-necked crane

black-necked crane (plural black-necked cranes)

Grus nigricollis
Grus nigricollis#Translingual

Grus nigricollis, a bird of the crane (Gruidae) family, native to Asia


black crowned crane

black crowned crane (plural black crowned cranes)

Balearica pavonina, a bird of the crane (Gruidae) family


red-crowned crane

red-crowned crane (plural red-crowned cranes)

Grus japonensis
Grus japonensis#Translingual

Grus japonensis, a bird of the crane (Gruidae) family, native to East Asia


grey crowned crane

grey crowned crane (plural grey crowned cranes)

Balearica regulorum, a bird of the crane (Gruidae) family