Look up crane or cranes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Crane or cranes may refer to: Crane (bird), a large, long-necked bird Crane (machine), industrial...

fit the above definition of a crane, but are generally known as cranes, such as stacker cranes and loader cranes. Cranes were so called from the resemblance...

recognize other whooping cranes as their conspecifics, and unsuccessfully tried to pair with sandhill cranes, instead. Florida sandhill crane, Ocala National Forest...

the face, but the crowned cranes of the genus Balearica have vibrantly-coloured wings and golden "crowns" of feathers. Cranes fly with their necks extended...

thousand origami cranes (千羽鶴, senbazuru, lit. 'one thousand cranes') are made, one for each year. In some stories, it is believed that the cranes must be completed...

wild (and two captive) cranes remaining by 1941, conservation efforts would lead to a partial recovery. The total number of cranes in the surviving migratory...

keeps cranes. Some literati even reared cranes and trained them to dance to guqin music. The Ming and Qing Dynasties endowed the Red Crowned Crane with...

she constructed one thousand paper cranes, hoping (in vain) that this might save her life. The memory of paper cranes folded by this girl—a girl who to...

common crane (Grus grus), also known as the Eurasian crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes. A medium-sized species, it is the only crane commonly...

Siberian crane (Leucogeranus leucogeranus), also known as the Siberian white crane or the snow crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes. They are...

Eucalyptus-dominated woodlands and grasslands in Australia. The sarus crane is easily distinguished from other cranes in the region by its overall grey colour and the contrasting...

Alison and Jim Shaw and named after the many mechanical cranes around the city's docks, Cranes are best known for the singular childlike vocals of lead...

called senbazuru (千羽鶴), meaning "thousand cranes", and it is said that if someone folds a thousand cranes, they are granted one wish. The significance...

the cranes, which has been lost in the other subfamily. Crowned cranes also lack a coiled trachea and have loose plumage compared to the other cranes. The...

involving cranes, and in Chinese mythology cranes are generally symbolically connected with the idea of longevity.: 86–87  In China, the crane mythology...

Cranes are tall wading birds in the family Gruidae. Cranes are found on every continent except for South America and Antarctica and inhabit a variety of...

world, to small shop cranes, used for tasks such as lifting automobile engines out of vehicles. They are also called portal cranes, the "portal" being...

called a gantry crane (USA, ASME B30 series) or a goliath crane (UK, BS 466). Unlike mobile or construction cranes, overhead cranes are typically used...

Electric overhead traveling cranes or EOT cranes are a common type of overhead crane, also called bridge cranes. They consist of parallel runways, much...

Manitowoc Cranes is a division of The Manitowoc Company, Inc. Manitowoc Cranes produces five brands of cranes: Grove, National Crane, Shuttlelift, Manitowoc...

An aerial crane or flying crane is a helicopter used to lift heavy or awkward loads. As aerial cranes, helicopters carry loads connected to long cables...

the rest of the cranes, which were buried with Sadako. The claim in Coerr's book that Sadako "died before completing the 1000 cranes, and her two friends...

their effectiveness. Before 1870 cranes were fixed to a position, except for some mounted on flatcars, railroad cranes, which provided some restricted...

higher-pitched than the common crane. Like other cranes it has a dancing display, more balletic than the common crane, with less leaping. The demoiselle...

(such as Siberian or whooping cranes) are found over a considerable range in their migratory movements. The blue crane is migratory, primarily altitudinal...

Railroad cranes are usually designed specifically for one of three purposes: Usually the smallest of the railroad cranes, goods yard cranes were used...

savanna. The black crowned crane is of the order Gruiformes, which includes all cranes as well as the rails (family Rallidae). Cranes are further classified...

A crane fly is any member of the dipteran superfamily Tipuloidea, which contains the living families Cylindrotomidae, Limoniidae, Pediciidae and Tipulidae...

"bomb-affected person"), said to have folded one thousand origami cranes before her death. The Peace Crane Project participated in the 20th Annual Sadako Peace Day...

to 1040. In April 2018, a new population of Wattled Cranes was discovered in Angola. Wattled cranes inhabit fairly inaccessible wetlands under most conditions...