Tsurui, Akan District, Hokkaido, Japan - February 17, 2025 Red-crowned cranes, designated as a Japanese special national treasure, are in mating season on their snow-covered feeding grounds in the ...

An international nongovernmental organization’s proposal to downgrade the red-crowned crane in an animal preservation list has triggered a wave of protests in and outside Japan. The bird species ...

Red-crowned cranes are attracting visitors to the northern Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido. Photographers in Tsurui Village can snap photos of red-crowned cranes gathering by a river before dawn ...

Davao City’s oldest and premier full-service Japanese restaurant, Tsuru, celebrates its 35th anniversary with an irresistible ...

According to the Wild Bird Society of Japan, a pair of red-crowned cranes were breeding in a marsh sprawling between Tomakomai, a coastal city south of Sapporo, and Mukawa, a neighboring town east ...

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It gets its name from the red patch of feathers on top of its head. There are only two major populations of this crane left in the wild — one group lives year-round in Japan and the other spends ...