Demoiselle Cranes | 台北市立動物園資訊網

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Our Demoiselle Cranes are 18 to 36" tall, DNA sexed, and flying. They range from two to four months of age. They will be shipped via Air Cargo to your local airport thru either Delta or United Cargo Services. 

Marie Antoinette coined the name Demoiselle Crane. When the birds were first brought into France, she felt they looked like damsels or pretty maidens because of their delicate elegance.

Demoiselle Cranes are the smallest of all the cranes species, and also one of the most elegant and graceful in design. Their bodies and outer wings are a pale silver-blue and the undersides of the wings and tails are black. Their necks are mostly black. They have swirls of white feathers curving out from the top of the head and side of the eye. The black feathers on the front of the neck become full and mane-like, opulently extending ...