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sandhill cranes (Antigone canadensis formerly Grus canadensis - Gruidae) at White River Marsh State Wildlife Area
west of Berlin, Wisconsin, Green Lake County
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A wild Whooping Crane dancing - the colors on the top of the legs are transmitters that track their migration paths! Like how they chose colors to match its head! You can even see the antenna.
A few of my own textures were added!
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The 32nd Annual MV Crane Festival. March 13 - 15, 2015.
Late in February, sandhill cranes, the San Luis Valley’s oldest visitors, begin their annual trek from south to north, stopping off near the Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge to load up on fuel. For millions of years, the sandhills have been spending their "Spring Break" in Colorado’s Valley of the Cranes and more recently, wildlife watchers have been drawn to wonder at this phenomenal natural spectacle.
A single Sandhill Crane flies in to Creamer's Field to take part in the annual Crane Festival, probably without a ticket as usual. What to do?
Taken 22 August 2021 at Creamer's Field, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Florida Sandhill Crane. Florida sandhill cranes inhabit freshwater marshes, prairies, and pastures (Florida Natural Areas Inventory 2001). They occur throughout peninsular Florida north to the Okefenokee Swamp in southern Georgia; however, they are less common at the northernmost and southernmost portions of this range. Florida’s Kissimmee and Desoto prairie regions are home to the state’s most abundant populations (Meine and Archibald 1996). MyFWC
I have a lot of images remaining to process, but wanted to get something posted from my weekend trip to Jasper Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area in northwest Indiana. This location is an annual stopover for thousands of cranes during migration, with just under thirty thousand reported earlier in the week before our arrival. We were not fortunate enough to see them in quite those concentrated numbers at the refuge, but did find large flocks-- ranging in size from dozens to hundreds-- in the surrounding farmland. The weather was variable, but there were times when we had quite nice light for photography, which is not a given at this location.
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Entered into TMI's Apr 2025 TAA challenge, "Focus on Trios".
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4th August 2015 - A night time view of the Seaforth Container Terminal taken from the roof of the ACL container ship 'Atlantic Conveyor'.
We missed out on a pair of Whooping cranes that had been seen there several weeks previously, but this pair of Sandhills posed for us for a while. Cheyenne Bottoms CA, Kansas
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One of the great thrills in watching Sandhill Cranes as they migrate is when they arrive in great flocks, uttering their raucous cries as they descend from the skies in large numbers. It's just spectacular!
Taken 25 August 2019 at Creamers Field, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Crane fly is a common name referring to any member of the insect family Tipulidae, of the order Diptera, true flies in the superfamily Tipuloidea.
The crane parents flew across the canal and the colt tried to follow them. The baby appeared to be struggling so the parents flew back across the canal. The baby was able to climb on lily pads and work its way back to shore.
Thanks so much for the visit!
A pair of Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis) search for waste grain in a harvested grain crop in the agricultural landscape near Simpson, Saskatchewan, Canada in east central part of the province.
Thousands of Sandhill Cranes stop in the province to rest and feed on waste grain as they migrate south for the winter.
23 September, 2014.
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Found the coyote stalking the crane and then he seen me and ran away. Maybe it was the cranes lucky day that I came along. Athabasca county Alberta.
(Grus canadensis) Sandhill Cranes are known for their dancing skills. Courting cranes stretch their wings, pump their heads, bow, and leap into the air in a graceful and energetic dance. This one was tossing a leaf continually into the air - presumably to impress the female.
Interesting Facts:
Although some start breeding at two years of age, Sandhill Cranes may reach the age of seven before breeding. They mate for life—which can mean two decades or more—and stay with their mates year-round. Juveniles stick close by their parents for 9 or 10 months after hatching.
The earliest Sandhill Crane fossil, estimated to be 2.5 million years old, was unearthed in the Macasphalt Shell Pit in Florida.
Sandhill Crane chicks can leave the nest within 8 hours of hatching, and are even capable of swimming.
The oldest Sandhill Crane on record was at least 36 years, 7 months old. Originally banded in Wyoming in 1973, it was found in New Mexico in 2010.
Sandhill cranes come in large numbers to Bosque del Apache in New Mexico every winter. They sleep in the ponds and feed in the surrounding fields. Fights frequently break out for no apparent reason. Just like in human crowds...
Seeing the Sandhill Cranes at Bosque del Apache in New Mexico was high on my bucket list. So, I marked it off in November 2017.
Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, Afrikaanderwijk, De Kuil, Crane, Engineers (cut from B &T)
A 'Terex' tower crane at 'De Kuil' building project in the Afrikaanderwijk. The crane had been used on a different spot of the building site, partially disassembled, transporeted and reassembled again. The engineers are busy with the last phase of the re-attachment of a part of the boom of the crane.
This is number 290 of People at work.
Cranes in the sunset. I might have hundreds (if not thousands) of pictures like these. Since these pictures, to me, do not provoke the same reaction as the experience while taking them, I probably did not succeed in doing these moments justice. ButI figured I might as well post them anyway, since I like them as a memory.
The sandhill crane 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 Great Plains. Wikipedia
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