Editing Whooping crane (section)

==Taxonomy==
The whooping crane was [[Species description|formally described]] in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist [[Carl Linnaeus]] in the [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|tenth edition]] of his ''[[Systema Naturae]]''.  He placed it with the herons and cranes in the [[genus]] ''[[Ardea (bird)|Ardea]]'' and coined the [[binomial nomenclature|binomial name]] ''Ardea america''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1758 | title= Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | volume=1 | edition=10th | page=142 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | location=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=Latin | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727049 }}</ref> Linnaeus based his account on those by two English naturalists. In 1729–1732 [[Mark Catesby]] had described and illustrated the whooping crane in his ''The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands'',<ref>{{ cite book | last=Catesby  | first=Mark | author-link=Mark Catesby | year=1729–1732 | title=The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands | volume=1 | location=London | publisher=W. Innys and R. Manby | language=English, French | page=75, Plate 75 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40753343 }}</ref> and in 1750 [[George Edwards (naturalist)|George Edwards]] had described and illustrated the crane using a preserved specimen that had been brought to London from the [[Hudson Bay]] area of northeast Canada by [[James Isham]], an employee of the [[Hudson's Bay Company]].<ref>{{ cite book | last=Edwards | first=George | author-link=George Edwards (naturalist) | year=1750 | title=A Natural History of Uncommon Birds | location=London | publisher=Printed for the author at the College of Physicians | volume=3 | page=132, Plate 132 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50196282 }}</ref> Linnaeus specified the [[type locality (biology)|type locality]] as North America but this has been restricted to the Hudson Bay.<ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1934 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=2 | publisher=Harvard University Press | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts  | page=152 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14482965 }}</ref> The whooping crane is now one of eight species placed in the genus ''[[Grus (genus)|Grus]]'' that was introduced in 1760 by the French zoologist [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson]]. The species is considered to be [[monotypic]] as no [[subspecies]] are recognised.<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=December 2023 | title=Finfoots, flufftails, rails, trumpeters, cranes, Limpkin | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/bow/flufftails/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=28 July 2024 }}</ref>