^ 3.03.1R. K. Gaur, Indian Birds, Brijbasi Printers, 1994, 1994, ISBN 9788171070312, ... The smallest member of the crane family, the demoiselle crane (Anthropoides virgo ) is a distinctive looking bird, with ashy grey ... The local name for this crane — koonj — is onomatopoeic, deriving from the Sanskrit 'kraunch', the origin of the word crane itself ...
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^Clements, J.F.; Rasmussen, P.C.; Schulenberg, T.S.; Iliff, M.J.; Fredericks, T.A.; Gerbracht, J.A.; Lepage, D.; Spencer, A.; Billerman, S.M.; Sullivan, B.L.; Wood, C.L. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2023. 2023 [26 July 2024]. (原始内容存档于2013-10-13).
^ 12.012.1Archibald, G.W.; Meine, C.D. Family Gruidae (Cranes). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J. (编). Handbook of the Birds of the World. 3: Hoatzin to Auks. Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions. 1996: 60-89 [83-84]. ISBN 978-84-87334-20-7. 含有內容需登入查看的頁面 (link)
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^Cramp, Stanley (编). Grus virgo Demoiselle crane. Handbook of the Birds of Europe the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic. II: Hawks to Bustards. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1980: 631–636. ISBN 978-0-19-857505-4.
^Department of English, University of Delhi. The Individual and Society. Pearson Education India, 2005. September 2005. ISBN 978-81-317-0417-2. ... kunj: more properly koonj is a demoiselle crane. The word is used metaphorically for a young bride far from her home ...
^Dinkar Joshi; Yogesh Patel. Glimpses of Indian Culture. Star Publications, 2005. 2005. ISBN 978-81-7650-190-3. ... Valmiki saw a pair of kraunch (cranes) birds making love. Suddenly, a hunter killed the male kraunch with an arrow. Valmiki was moved by the cries of the female ... Valmiki's pain was expressed through a shloka ... The first man-composed meter ...
^Ramesh Menon. The Mahabharata: A Modern Rendering. iUniverse, 2006. 20 July 2006. ISBN 978-0-595-40188-8. ... The second day: Two kraunchas ... Yudhishtira decides to form his legions in the vyuha called the krauncha, after the crane ...