Sandhill crane

Sandhill crane
Adult (front) and juvenile in Sarasota, Florida
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2][note 1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Gruidae
Genus: Antigone
Species:
A. canadensis
Binomial name
Antigone canadensis
Subspecies
  • Antigone canadensis canadensis
    (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Antigone canadensis pratensis
    (F. A. A. Meyer, 1794)
  • Antigone canadensis nesiotes
    Bangs & Zappey, 1905
  • Antigone canadensis tabida
    (J. L. Peters, 1925)
  • Antigone canadensis rowani (disputed)
    Walkinshaw, 1965
  • Antigone canadensis pulla
    Aldrich, 1972

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Geographical distribution of the sandhill crane.
  Breeding
  Migration
  Year-round
  Nonbreeding
Synonyms
  • Ardea canadensis Linnaeus, 1758
  • Grus minor Miller, 1910
  • Grus proavus Marsh, 1872
  • Grus canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Antigone canadensis
USFWS Recording
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The sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) 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. The central Platte River valley in Nebraska is the most important stopover area for the nominotypical subspecies, the great sandhill crane (A. c. canadensis), with up to 450,000 of these birds migrating through annually.[3][4]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2021). "Antigone canadensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T22692078A188597759. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T22692078A188597759.en. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Lesser Sandhill Crane". kachemakbaybirders.org. 1 April 2018. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
  4. ^ "Sandhill Cranes". birdtrail.outdoornebraska.gov. Retrieved 18 April 2023.


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