The Bronx Zoo has a new baby white-naped crane.
The bird, which does not have a name yet, hatched this spring on the Northern Ponds near the zoo's Himalayan Highlands exhibit and is now on display with its parents.
White-naped cranes are a migratory species native to countries including China, Russia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea and Mongolia.
The birds' wetlands habitats are being lost to agriculture, and there are between 5,500 and 6,500 of the cranes left in the wild, according to the Bronx Zoo. The International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies the birds as vulnerable.
The Wildlife Conservation Society, which runs the Bronx Zoo, has made protecting the species a priority and conducted censuses in the wetlands of Mongolia and other countries.
