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A National Special Natural Monument known for the wintering of about 10,000 cranes from mid-October to March each year. It is breeding grounds of the cranes that migrate to the Izumi Plain are the wetlands from Lake Baikal to the middle Amur River basin for the hooded cranes, and the wetlands for the white-naped cranes from the middle to upper Amur river basins.
The Izumi crane migration grounds cover a 245ha paddy field area of Izumi plain in the northwest of Kagoshima Prefecture known for the about ten-thousand cranes which pass the winter there from every year mid October to March.
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