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	Sandhill Crane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) is a large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia.
		The Platte River at the edge of Nebraska's Sandhills in the American midwest is an important stopover for up to 450,000 of these birds during migration.
		Sandhill Cranes have been used as foster parents for Whooping Crane eggs and young in reintroduction schemes for that species, a project which failed as these foster-raised Whooping Cranes did not recognise other Whooping Cranes as their conspecifics—attempting instead, unsuccessfully, to pair with Sandhills.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sandhill_crane (462 words)

	Sandhill Crane: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The fl-crowned crane (balearica pavonina) is a bird in the crane family gruidae....
		The wattled crane (bugeranus carunculatus) is a bird in the crane family gruidae....
		The red-crowned crane (grus japonensis) is a large crane and is the second rarest crane in the world....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/sandhill_crane.htm (785 words)

	The Cranes
		Sandhill Cranes are primarily birds of open freshwater wetlands and shallow marshes, but the different subspecies utilize a broad range of habitat types, from bogs, sedge meadows, and fens to open grasslands, pine savannahs, and cultivated lands.
		Sandhill Cranes are known to have nested in coastal Texas until 1900, in Alabama until 1911, and in southern Louisiana as late as 1919 (Walkinshaw 1949, 1973; Johnsgard 1983).
		In general, the Sandhill Crane’s conservation needs reflect the fact that the migratory populations are still abundant, and thus offer opportunities to prevent population declines, to bolster their recovery in areas where they have declined, and to anticipate potential conflicts between people and cranes.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/distr/birds/cranes/gruscana.htm (9125 words)

	The Natural History of the Sandhill Crane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sandhill Cranes have a variety of vocalizations, the most common of which is generally described as a repeated series of trumpeting “garoo-a-a-a” calls that can be heard for over a mile.
		The sight of several hundred cranes flying low overhead, uttering their prehistoric calls as they wing their way back to roost, is one of the most aesthetic in all nature.
		Cranes usually take advantage of a northwest tail wind and wait until mid-morning when the sun causes warming thermals to rise, carrying them with the least amount of effort on their southward journey.
	www.michiganaudubon.org /bakersanctuary/crane.htm (2504 words)

	Crane Meadows Nature Center
		Sandhill cranes stand between three and four feet tall, weigh five to eight pounds, and have a wing span of six feet.
		Sandhill cranes have been hunted in the U.S. since 1960, and are hunted in nine central flyway states: Colorado, Kansas, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.
		The population of sandhill cranes in the early 1960's was estimated at 200,000 to 340,000.
	www.cranemeadows.org /crane.htm (1121 words)

	Sandhill Crane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cranes from both the Rocky Mountain (RM) and mid-Continent (M-C) populations winter in the Sulphur Springs and Gila River valleys of southeastern Arizona.
		Sandhills do not nest until they are four to five years old and typically have very poor success the first couple of years.
		For cranes of the three populations that winter in Arizona the major stopovers are the Platte River in Nebraska for the M-C, San Luis Valley in Colorado for the RM, and wetlands near Lund, Nevada for the LCRV.
	www.gf.state.az.us /h_f/game_crane.shtml (446 words)

	Sandhill Crane
		The sandhill crane is a very tall, stately bird clad in elegant rusty plumes on a background of silver-gray.
		Cranes arrive in their summering areas and begin nesting very early, occupying hummocks that provide islands of spring in a generally snow-clad landscape.
		Cranes worldwide are a generally imperiled group, but the sandhill cranes of Beringia provide a success story.
	www.nps.gov /bela/html/sandhill.htm (717 words)

	Division of Migratory Bird Management - Important Information for Waterfowl and Sandhill Crane Hunters
		These cranes have a wingspan of over 7 feet and often associate with sandhill cranes during the fall hunting period, but are white in appearance and have fl legs and fl wing tips.
		Sandhill crane hunters in the Central Flyway need to be particularly cautious about the presence of whooping cranes during sandhill crane hunting seasons.
		The Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain Populations of sandhill cranes are 2 of the populations that increased to healthy levels and experimental hunting seasons resumed in 1961.
	www.fws.gov /migratorybirds/issues/sandhillcrane/sandhillcranehunters.htm (1376 words)

	Sandhill Crane: Wildlife Notebook Series - Alaska Department of Fish and Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the past, the sandhill cranes in Alaska were called “little brown” cranes and were thought to be a separate species based on their color.
		Cranes breeding and migrating in Alaska are part of a complex of lesser sandhill cranes found from Siberia across northern Canada.
		The dance of the sandhills may be one of the strangest breeding displays on the tundra.
	www.adfg.state.ak.us /pubs/notebook/bird/crane.php (1009 words)

	AllRefer.com - crane, in zoology (Vertebrate Zoology) - Encyclopedia
		Cranes are known for their loud trumpeting call that can be heard for miles and for the rhythmic, jumping dances both males and females perform during mating season.
		Most whooping cranes winter at Aransas Bay, Tex. The sandhill crane, about 4 ft (1.2 m) tall with gray plumage, is becoming rare; it winters west of the Mississippi River.
		Cranes are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Gruiformes, family Gruidae.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/crane-bir.html (298 words)

	EEK! - Critter Corner - The Sandhill Crane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Unlike, its white whooping crane cousin, the sandhill crane is a tall gray bird.
		Sandhill cranes are on the move in fall and spring when they migrate to and from Florida where they spend the winter months.
		Cranes can be a problem for farmers when they pull up sprouting corn in spring time and eat large amounts of farm field grain in the fall.
	www.dnr.state.wi.us /org/caer/ce/eek/critter/bird/sandhill.htm (772 words)

	Mississippi Sandhill Crane: the cranes
		Mississippi sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis pulla) are a critically endangered subspecies found nowhere else on earth in the wild but on and adjacent to the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge.
		There are six different geographic types or subspecies of the wideranging sandhill cranes, all of which are uniformly gray in color, with a carmine unfeathered crown and a white cheek patch.
		Winter observations of sandhill cranes in southern Mississippi and Alabama outside of the refuge area are probably greater sandhills from the Upper Midwest.
	www.fws.gov /mississippisandhillcrane/mscranes/mscrane.htm (1084 words)

	Sandhill Crane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The sandhill crane's habitat is lowland tundra, marshes, shorelines of rivers, lakes, and coastal areas, and grassy slopes.
		The sandhill crane’s diet in the wild is roots, tubers, some fruits and young vegetables, small fish, insects, seeds, and small animals.
		Sandhill crane parents take their chicks to their food, unlike the herons whose parents get their food for the babies.
	www.k12.de.us /warner/sandhi.htm (291 words)

	January 2000 Bird of the Month - Sandhill Crane
		The gray plumage of the sandhill crane may be stained with rusty red from the iron-rich mud of northern marshes.
		Sandhills breed on the tundra of Canada and Alaska and in the marshes and grasslands of the northern states.
		The gathering of the sandhill cranes is one of the world's premier wildlife spectacles, and people come from across the country to watch the flights.
	www.passporttotexas.com /birds/jan00.html (608 words)

	Sandhill Crane
		Sandy is a female sandhill crane that was found near an airstrip in Homer, Alaska.
		Sandhill cranes are large birds, usually three to four feet tall.
		This group of cranes is the larger of the two groups in Alaska and they fly south to winter in the southwestern U.S., Texas and Mexico.
	www.alaskazoo.org /willowcrest/sandy.htm (635 words)

	Wildlife Viewing - Species Spotlight - Whooping Crane and Sandhill Crane
		Cranes have long inspired the human imagination with their tall and elegant stature, longevity and complex mating and courtship behaviors.
		Sandhill cranes occur in pastures, prairies and freshwater wetlands in peninsular Florida from the Everglades to the Okefenokee Swamp.
		The third member of the crane family found in Florida is the endangered whooping crane, which was first reintroduced to the Kissimmee Prairie region in 1993.
	floridaconservation.org /viewing/species/crane.htm (423 words)

	Sandhill Crane - (Grus canadensis )
		Nor is the bird a weakling at that, for the height of the male when he stands erect is nearly that of a man of average stature, while the bird's great wings carry his compact and muscular body with perfect ease and at a high speed.
		Indeed, when the Sandhill Crane is crippled by a broken wing or otherwise, he may become an exceedingly ugly antagonist for the man who attempts to overpower him, because of the skill, strength, and quickness with which he will then employ his long and dagger-like bill in defending himself.
		This cry of the Sandhill Crane is a veritable voice of Nature, untamed and unterrified.
	goodfelloweb.com /birds/waders/cranes/sandhill_crane.html (737 words)

	U-Haul SuperGraphics: Mississippi Sandhill Crane
		The magnificent Mississippi sandhill crane is a unique subspecies of the sandhill crane that can be seen nowhere in the world but in southern Mississippi.
		The sandhill crane is one of only 15 species of cranes in the world and one of only two types of cranes in North America.
		Sandhill cranes are primarily birds of open freshwater wetlands, shallow marshes, wet meadows and adjacent uplands.
	www.uhaul.com /supergraphics/crane/two.html (623 words)

	Sandhill Cranes
		The Greater Sandhill Crane, standing about 3.5 feet tall with a wingspan of 6 to 7 feet, is the largest race of Sandhill Cranes.
		The cranes feed in surrounding farmland in an area that was once the vast and famous Kankakee Marsh.
		The nest of the Sandhill Crane, located on the ground, is a heap of plant material several feet in diameter.
	www.wbu.com /chipperwoods/photos/sandhill.htm (475 words)

	Sandhill Crane - ICF
		Sandhill Cranes are primarily birds of open fresh water wetlands, but the different subspecies utilize habitats that range from bogs, sedge meadows, and fens to open grasslands, pine savannas, and cultivated lands.
		Sandhill Cranes occur at their highest breeding density in habitats that contain open sedge meadows in wetlands that are adjacent to short vegetation in uplands.
		Sandhill Cranes are adept at probing in the ground and finding planted agricultural seeds such as corn.
	www.savingcranes.org /species/sandhill.cfm (1171 words)

	FWC - Critter Questions - Sandhill Crane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) are long legged, long necked, gray, heron-like birds with a patch of bald red skin on top of their head.
		Sandhill cranes nest during late winter and spring on mats of vegetation about two feet in diameter and in shallow water.
		The sandhill crane is a close relative to the nearly extinct whooping crane, which is being reintroduced into the state.
	www.wildflorida.org /critters/sandhillcrane.asp (266 words)

	Sandhill Crane: Nature Snapshots from Minnesota DNR: Minnesota DNR
		Sandhill cranes are "circumpolar" in distribution, meaning that they live in the far northern parts of more than one continent, such as North America and northern Europe.
		Sandhill cranes are a protected species in Minnesota, but there is regulated hunting in some states, including North Dakota.
		Sandhill cranes are closely related to the federally endangered whooping crane.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /snapshots/birds/sandhillcrane.html (318 words)

	Sandhill Crane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For many visitors, sandhill crane epitomizes the Malheur Refuge, and the official t-shirts and sweatshirts available at Refuge Headquarters are emblazoned with them.
		Lesser sandhill crane migrate through in early spring and fall, in transit between their nesting grounds in southwest Alaska, and their wintering grounds in central California.
		Greater sandhill crane are about 10% larger, as their name implies, and are the crane that are found nesting on the refuge and surrounding areas after the migrating lessers have moved on.
	donb.furfly.net /malheur/birds/crane.html (262 words)

	juvenile sandhill crane
		Cranes generally can be fairly aggressive birds, so it's not surprising to see this behavior, however Canada geese are large, powerful birds who can usually look after themselves, so it's still an interesting sight to see.
		It would have been a real shame to lose the sandhill crane, since apart from anything else, six million year old fossils found in Nebraska suggest that they are the oldest surviving bird species in the world.
		The other American crane, the whooping crane, which is similar in appearance except that its plumage is white instead of grey, is much rarer and is still in some danger of extinction.
	www.richard-seaman.com /Birds/USA/WaterBirds/WadingBirds/SandhillCranes/GurneeJuvenile (366 words)

	Sandhill Crane Save The Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sandhill cranes are one of only 15 species of crane living in the world today, the majority of which are endangered or near extinction.
		However, sandhill cranes are very territorial and don’t allow other sandhills near their nesting area, not even their young from the previous year.
		Sandhill cranes typically lay two oval-shaped eggs, which can be twice the size of a chicken’s egg.
	www.savesfbay.org /site/pp.asp?c=dgKLLSOwEnH&b=1126835 (415 words)

	Sandhill Cranes at Rowe Sanctuary - Nebraska's Premier Wildlife Spectacle
		The trips are conducted every year during March and early April, when over 500,000 sandhill cranes along with hundreds of thousands of ducks and geese converge on the Platte.
		Rowe Sanctuary is located right in the heart of this magnificent sandhill crane staging area where the birds can be viewed in huge gatherings on their nighttime roosts.
		The sandhill cranes are gone again until the fall migration, where they are heard more often than seen on there way south to their wintering grounds.
	www.rowesanctuary.org (349 words)

	Sandhill Crane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Sandhill Crane is scientifically known as the "Grus canadensis".
		The height of a Sandhill Crane is normally 34 to 48 inches.
		The crane's height difference does not depend on the age of the crane.
	www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us /Wetlands/Crane/SandhillCrane.html (546 words)

	Crane at exZOOberance!
		Cranes are superficially similar to herons, which also have long legs and long necks, but they are not closely related.
		Cranes fly with their necks fully extended, whereas herons, once they have attained their full flight speed, pull their heads back so that the neck is bent in an S-curve.
		The sandhill crane is classified as Grus canadensis, the whooping crane as Grus americana, and the sarus crane as Grus antigone.
	www.exzooberance.com /virtual%20zoo/they%20fly/crane/crane.htm (464 words)

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