Cranes
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crane, common crane or Eurasian crane
Kranich
[Grus grus]
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Sandhill cranes (Antigone canadensis formerly Grus canadensis - Gruidae)
Uihlein Waterfowl Production Area
Leopold Wetland Management District
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Waukau, Winnebago County, Wisconsin
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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
Sand Crane migrate to British Columbia from Siberia every summer nesting near Pitt Addington marsh.
Sand Crane calls are bazaar sounding I recommend searching online to find out just how unique these birds are.
I went to the Sandhill Crane Festival in Fairbanks, Alaska and was pleasantly surprised. I was expecting four days of rain but we had two nice afternoons of some sunshine otherwise it would have been disappointing for photograhy! One of the rainy evenings I was thrilled to see hundreds if not more than a thousand cranes arrive to Creamer's Field in Fairbanks. Here I've captured two cranes coming in to one of the fields to eat and rest for a bit on their migration south.
Taken 25 August 2018 at Creamer's Field, Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Entered into TMI's Apr 2025 TAA challenge, "Focus on Trios".
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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.
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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More Badlands shots later. It's been a while since I've posted any bird images so here's the start of few I'll be posting in the coming days. This eight year old shot was taken in Texas near the gulf coast.
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.
This is one of two remaining cranes that would have been used for unloading / loading the barges
The Driffield Navigation is an 11-mile (18 km) waterway, through the heart of the Holderness Plain to the market town of Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The northern section of it is a canal, and the southern section is part of the River Hull. Construction was authorised in 1767, and it was fully open in 1770
The Driffield Navigation is the waterway extending from the market town of Driffield along the Driffield Canal and then the River Hull southwards as far as Aike.
A bridge to far www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/environment/a-bridge-too-far...
(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.
The sandhill crane is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia. The common name of this bird refers to their 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. Wikipedia
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Sandhill cranes (Antigone canadensis, Gruidae) are in the midst of staging for their flights south. Here a couple of birds face off after one invades the space of another.
Notice the head that is just emerging of one bird that is lying down resting in the soybean crop.
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While photographing the lone Snow Bunting, we heard and saw a small group of Sandhill Cranes flying overhead, followed by another group, and soon there were dozens of Cranes landing in a nearby field. We quickly made our way over to where the action was, and by the time we got there, about 80 or more Cranes were enjoying the open water in a farmer's field.