Sandhill Crane
Antigone canadensis
A tall gray crane of marshes, wet meadows, prairies, and harvested fields, often roosting in shallow water and foraging in open ground. It walks deliberately while probing and picking food, and it can defend itself with bill strikes, wing blows, leaps, and kicks. Its omnivorous diet includes grains, seeds, tubers, insects, snails, worms, and small vertebrates. A notable fact is that its long coiled windpipe produces rolling calls that can carry for kilometers.
- Type
- Wing
- Conservation status
- LC
Growth chain
- ?
- Juvenile Sandhill Crane
- Sandhill Crane