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white crane 
a species of crane, Grus americana, which nests in western Canada.
See also: whooping crane
- 1743 (1949) 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 (1955) 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."
- 1743 (1949) 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. . . .