Cranes
Sandhill Crane
Antigone canadensis
The sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia. The common name of this bird refers to habitat like that at the Platte River, on the edge of Nebraska's Sandhills on the American Plains. This is the most important stopover area for the nominotypical subspecies, the lesser sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis canadensis), with up to 450,000 of these birds migrating through annually.
- Family
- Cranes
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Weight
- 4.3 kg
- Habitat
- Wetland
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Migration
- Migrant
- Countries recorded
- 12
Recorded in United States, Canada, Mexico, Denmark, Japan, Sweden, Russia, Germany, Norway, Cuba, Republic of Korea, United Kingdom.
Where to see it: Reifel Bird Sanctuary (Canada); Magee Marsh · Boardwalk (United States); Point Pelee National Park (general location) (Canada); 서산 · 간월호(Seosan · Ganwol Lake/Seosan Lake A-General Area**please consider using more specific locations**) (Republic of Korea); PN Ciénaga de Zapata · Santo Tomas (Cuba).
