SARUS CRANE

Photographed at Hastie's Swamp, Queensland October 2015

673           SARUS CRANE           Grus antigone

Australia         (515)

1.2-1.5 m; wingspan to 2.5 m. Range: Asian species, first recorded in Aust. near Normanton (Q) in 1966.Now extends from se Gulf to near Cape York; e. from c. Burketown to Atherton Tableland, s. toTownsville-Ayr and inland to c. Julia Ck. Smaller number on w. Gulf lowlands and Kimberley (WA). Locally common on Atherton Tablelands in ne Q.; sparse elsewhere. Part migratory; dispersive.

Photographed near Atherton, Queensland October 2015