Grus (IPA: , ) is a southern constellation. The constellation was one of twelve constellations created by Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597, and it first appeared in Johann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603. An alternative name for this constellation, Phoenicopterus (Latin for flamingo), was used briefly in England during the 17th centuryhttp://www.pa.msu.edu/people/horvatin/Astronomy_Facts/obsolete_pages/phoenicopterus.htm Obsolete Constellations: Pheonicopterus.