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Brolga

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For the Royal Australian Navy ships named after the bird, see Brolga (ship).

Brolga
Brolga (Antigone rubicunda), Healesville Sanctuary, Victoria
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Gruidae
Genus: Antigone
Species:
A. rubicunda
Binomial name
Antigone rubicunda
(Perry, 1810)
Distribution in red
Synonyms[3]
  • Ardea rubicunda
  • Grus antarctica Illiger, 1816
  • Mathewsia rubicunda (Iredale, 1911)
  • Grus rubicundus
  • Grus australasianus

The brolga (Antigone rubicunda), formerly known as the native companion, is a bird in the crane family. It has also been given the name Australian crane, a term coined in 1865 by well-known ornithologist John Gould in his Birds of Australia.[4]

The brolga is a common, gregarious wetland bird species of tropical and south-eastern Australia and New Guinea. It is a tall, upright bird with a small head, long beak, slender neck, and long legs. Its plumage is mainly grey, with black wing tips, and it has an orange-red band on its head. The brolga's courting dance is similar to that of other cranes. The nest is built of wetland vegetation, either on an elevated piece of land or floating on shallow water in marshland, and usually two eggs are laid. Incubation takes 32 days, and the newly hatched young are precocial. The adult diet is omnivorous and includes plant matter, invertebrates, and small vertebrates.[5]

Although the bird is not considered endangered over the majority of its range, populations are showing some decline, especially in southern Australia, and local action plans are being undertaken in some areas.[6] It has featured on the Queensland coat of arms since 1977 and was formally declared as the bird emblem of the state in 1986.[7]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Antigone rubicunda". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22692067A93335916. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22692067A93335916.en. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference AFD was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Gould was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Johnsgard was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Veltheim, Inka; Sundar, K.S. Gopi (2019). "Species review: Brolga (Grus rubicundus)". In Mirande, Claire M.; Harris, James T. (eds.). Crane Conservation Strategy. International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, USA. pp. 371–381.
  7. ^ "Bird emblem". Queensland Government. Retrieved 26 July 2021.

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