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Sandhill Crane

Grus canadensis ORDER: GRUIFORMES FAMILY: GRUIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

The Sandhill Crane is a tall gray bird of open grasslands, meadows, and wetlands. It congregates in huge numbers in migration.

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Calls

  • Calls
    Recorded by Marian P. McChesney
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

A deep, rolling trumpet and rattling.

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