R. 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 ...
Archibald, G.W.; Meine, C.D. Family Gruidae (Cranes). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J. (編). 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)
Johnsgard, Paul A. Demoiselle Crane (Anthropoides virgo). Cranes of the World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1983: 95–102. Also available from the Internet Archive here (registration required).
Cramp, Stanley (編). 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 ...