Grey crowned crane

This medium-sized omnivore has an adult body mass of 3.8 kg, forages on the ground, lives in wetland habitat and is sedentary. It lays one clutch per year with a representative clutch size of 2.5 eggs, incubates them for 29.5 days and reaches sexual maturity at 4 years.

Weight

3.61 kg – 3.77 kgsrc for Weight

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

17 yearssrc for Lifespan

Diet

Omnivoresrc for Diet

Longest recorded lifespan

21 years

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

wetlandsrc for Habitat

Egg incubation

29.5 dayssrc for Egg incubation

Young per litter or clutch

2 – 2.5src for Young per litter or clutch

Age at maturity

3.98 yearssrc for Age at maturity

Litters or clutches a year

1src for Litters or clutches a year

Lifestyle

Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle

Migration

Sedentarysrc for Migration

Conservation status

Endangered (IUCN)src for Conservation status

Countries on record

Not recorded

Not recorded

The grey crowned crane is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List: it faces a very high risk of extinction in the wild.

1. LCLeast Concern
2. NTNear Threatened
3. VUVulnerable
4. ENEndangered
5. CRCritically Endangered
6. EWExtinct in the Wild
7. EXExtinct

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1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classAves
4. orderGruiformes
5. familyGruidae
6. genusBalearica
7. SpeciesBalearica regulorum (E. T. Bennett, 1834)

Synonyms Anthropoides regulorum, Balearica pavonina regulorum

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

VU, Vulnerable

Black crowned crane

Balearica pavonina

Gruidae

CompareGrey crowned crane vs Black crowned crane

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@misc{grey_crowned_crane_2026,
  title = {Grey crowned crane (Balearica regulorum)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/grey-crowned-crane},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}