In Japanese culture, the paper crane is known as "orizuru" and is considered ... and deep symbolism. These migratory birds ...

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 ...

Of course, this character of symbolic grace and modesty goes far to recommend the bird to so artistic a people as the Japanese ... and finding a place with the crane and the lotus as a religious ...

Other countries have seen mass crane die-offs caused by bird flu, from Israel to Japan to Hungary, where an at least 10,000 and possibly 20,000 Eurasian cranes died in winter 2023.