Habitat
Shallow wetlands, marshes and wintering refuge.
MIGRATION THREAD
Siberian crane
Leucogeranus leucogeranus · درنای سیبری
WetlandLong-distance migrantFragile route
A white bird whose survival is written across a chain of wetlands rather than a single place.
A chain of places.
A migratory bird lives in sequence: breeding ground, stopover, winter refuge, and every wetland between. Break one link and the whole route becomes unstable.
For Persian Wilds, the Siberian crane is less a species card than a lesson in continuity. It shows how a northern marsh and a Caspian wetland can belong to the same living system.
Ecological role
Wetland grazer and visible indicator of route continuity.
Archive thread
Migration, memory, loss and international conservation.
The white passage.
The archive treats this profile carefully: population detail and current status require specialist sourcing because the western route has been exceptionally fragile. The artwork creates attention; the conservation facts must remain sourced.