A paper cutout of a photograph of the top half of a Sandhill Crane placed in harvested cornfield. In the distant background are out-of-focus real migrating Sandhill Cranes.
“Sandhill Crane” in harvested cornfield

Sandhill Crane

SACR
  • Scientific: Antigone canadensis
  • Spanish: Grulla Canadiense
  • French: Grue du Canada
  • Family: Cranes
  • Bird Code: SACR

If there is a 3° C increase in temperature due to unmitigated climate change

Predicted percentage of habitat lost

37%
Summer range lost
32%
Winter range lost

Climate and other threats imore info

Habitat

Open habitats, such as grasslands, agricultural fields, prairies, marshes, and tundra.

Range

In winter, Sandhill Cranes are found primarily in Texas, Florida, Southern New Mexico, and California with outposts year-round in Mississippi, Florida and Cuba. During migration, hundreds of thousands use the Platte River in Nebraska as a staging ground before continuing to their breeding areas in the northern U.S. and across Canada.

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Did you know?

One of the oldest Sandhill Crane fossils, found in the Macasphalt Shell Pit in Florida, is estimated to be 2.5 million years old!