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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
Wikidata facts
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- taxon rank
- species
- taxon name
- Grus canadensis
- Commons category
- Antigone canadensis
- Commons gallery
- Antigone canadensis
- taxon common name
- grou-canadiano
- wingspan
- 2.1
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- short name
- G. canadensis
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
via Wikidata · CC0
~22 min read
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.