Sandhill Crane

Grus canadensis

The sandhill crane is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia. The common name of this bird refers to its habitat, such as the Platte River, on the edge of Nebraska's Sandhills on the American Great Plains. Sandhill cranes are known to frequent the edges of bodies of water. The central Platte River Valley in Nebraska is the most important stopover area for the nominotypical subspecies, the lesser sandhill crane (A. c. canadensis), with up to 450,000 of these birds migrating through annually. Source

Where is the Sandhill Crane now?

In the last 8 weeks it was recorded 96 times across 6 areas (each area is a 5 degree square).

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When does the Sandhill Crane arrive?

The week it was first heard regularly in each region, after at least six weeks away. Dates differ from south to north, so a region has a range.

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Arriving at the same time in North America

• Western Bluebird Sialia mexicana
• Fish Crow Corvus ossifragus
• Hoary Redpoll Acanthis hornemanni
• Common Pauraque Nyctidromus albicollis
• White-throated Swift Aeronautes saxatalis
• Pygmy Nuthatch Sitta pygmaea
• Bewick's Wren Thryomanes bewickii
• Black Vulture Coragyps atratus

Every arrival in North America, month by month

Related species

• Common Crane Grus grus

Figures are effort corrected and come from automatic sound identification, which makes mistakes. How this is measured · How it compares with human observers