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white crane
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a species of crane, Grus americana, which nests in western Canada.
See: whooping crane
Quotations
1743
Browne crams are but small in comparison to a white Craine, which is Very Large, some being 10 foot and 1/2 high from the claw to the Bill. . . .
1852
Very rarely during the summer a flock of white cranes passes over Fort Simpson, in latitude 62° N.
1877
On our way to dinner, two large white cranes rose swanlike from a wet marsh near the road.
1911
Ernest Thompson Seton, while camping at Lake Chipewyan as early as 1911, mentions hearing "the glorious trumpeting of the White crane," adding "It has less rattling croak and more whoop than that of the Brown crane."