Heijinghe (in Chinese), the Black-Necked Crane ( Grus Nigricollis, or Tibetan crane by some ornithologists) is categorized as an endangered species, is the only alpine member of the world's 15 species crane family, it livers exclusively on the world's most extensive and highest Tibetan Plateau and fringe areas higher than 2200 meters above sea level such as Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.  According to past reports, fewer than 1,000 of them survived in the world, with their habitats being in China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.In 1992, foreign and Chinese experts, on an inspection tour of a habitat of the black-necked cranes in Tibet, spotted more than 3910 (now about 4200) of them and saw a chick being hatched. The number of black-necked cranes in the world is around 6,000-8000 now.
Its diturbutes in Qinghai, Tibet, Yunna, Guzhou and Sichuan, alt range from 2200meters to 5000 meters, total about 7 reserves mainly protecting this cranes in China. And in Tibet account for 70% population of this crane, such as Shenzha reserve, Lhasa Reserve in Tibet (see Birds in Tibet ). In Tibetan Plateau, this crane occouring there as breeding area, and wintering area in Guizhou, Yunnan and Buthan and India etx..
You can watch black necked crane in Zhongdian (Bita Lake) area and Zhaotong Dashanbao Reserve, Caihai Lake in Guizhou in winter, Qinghai Lake in Qinghai and Longbaotan Reserve in Qinghai in summer, Western Sichuan area such as Roergai Wetland Reserve in summer, Greaat Canyon in Tibet in winter, Shenzha Reserve in Tibet, Tibetan Platueau etc.

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