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OverviewAI-generated
Grus canadensis is a species within the family Gruidae and order Gruiformes. It belongs to the class Aves, phylum Chordata, and kingdom Animalia. The species was described by Linnaeus in 1758 and is accepted under the authority of that date. Common names for this bird include Sandhill Crane, Kanadakranich, Grulla canadiense, and Fandhill crane.
The organism has a wingspan of 2.1. Its IUCN conservation status is listed as Least Concern, a designation recorded in 2021. Occurrence data indicates 2,488,570 records, while iDigBio holds 1,961 records and 434 media files, with institutions such as UTEP contributing data from the United States.
Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, Gbif Occ, IUCN Red List, MusicBrainz, WoRMS, iDigBio, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Species
Least ConcernFandhill crane
Grus canadensis
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderGruiformes
- FamilyGruidae
via GBIF · IUCN
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,961
- With media
- 434
- Family
- Gruidae
- Collections
- UTEP
- Recorded in
- United States
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Encyclopedic overview
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 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.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grus canadensis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.