🐦Sandhill crane

Grus canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758)

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.

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≈ 1/16th of your weight

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Grus canadensis

Conservation status

LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendIncreasing

Key measurements

Body mass: 3.89 kg
Body length: not recorded
Shoulder height: not recorded
Top speed: not recorded
Bite force: not recorded
Maximum lifespan: 37 years

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Everything we know about the Sandhill crane

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass

3.89 kg

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Standing height

1.1 m1–1.2 m · typical rangenot stated

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'Sandhill cranes are large birds, standing 1.0 to 1.2 m (3.2 to 3.9 ft) tall, with a wingspan of 1.8 to 2.0 m (5.9 to 6.5 ft).' Midpoint of the published range. Subspecies differ: Alaska Dept of Fish & Game gives lesser sandhills as standing 'almost three feet (0.9 m) tall'.

Source: U.S. National Park Service, Sandhill Crane species article, https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/sandhill-crane.htm · see citation

Maximum lifespan

37 years

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Gestation

29 days

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