Hooded Crane

The hooded crane has a white head and upper neck except for a patch of bare red skin above the eye. It is one of the smallest cranes but is still a fairly large bird, about 1 metre long, weighing 3.7 kilograms with a wingspan of 1.87 metres. It is native to East Asia and is a frequent migratory bird in South Korea and Japan. (Wikipedia, general species account)

The hooded crane breeds in south-central and southeastern Siberia, and breeding is also suspected in Mongolia. Over 80 percent of its population winters at Izumi in southern Japan, with other wintering grounds in South Korea and China, and about 100 winter each year at Chongming Dongtan in Shanghai, the largest natural wintering site in the world. One bird overwintered in southeastern Tennessee in December 2011, well outside its normal range. (Wikipedia, general species account)