Sandhill Crane, Florida
by Gary Corbett
Title
Sandhill Crane, Florida
Artist
Gary Corbett
Medium
Photograph - Photography Film And Digital
Description
The sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia. The common name of this bird refers to habitat like that at the Platte River, on the edge of Nebraska's Sandhills on the American Plains. This is the most important stopover area for the nominotypical subspecies, the lesser sandhill crane (Grus canadensis canadensis), with up to 450,000 of these birds migrating through annually. Three subspecies are resident: G. c. pulla of the Gulf Coast of the U.S., G. c. pratensis of Florida and Georgia and G. c. nesiotes of Cuba. The northern populations exist as fragmented remains in the contiguous U.S. and a large and contiguous population from Canada to Beringia. These migrate to the southwestern United States and Mexico. These cranes are rare vagrants to China, South Korea, and Japan and very rare vagrants to western Europe.
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April 25th, 2016
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