Sandhill crane
| Sandhill crane Temporal range: Early Pleistocene – Recent
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| Greater sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis pratensis) in Florida, USA | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Gruidae |
| Genus: | Antigone |
| Species: | A. canadensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Antigone canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758)
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| Subspecies | |
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| Geographical distribution of the sandhill crane. Breeding Migration Year-round Nonbreeding
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| Synonyms | |
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The sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) is a species complex of large cranes 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.[3][4]
- ^ BirdLife International (2021). "Antigone canadensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T22692078A188597759. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T22692078A188597759.en. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ^ "Lesser Sandhill Crane". kachemakbaybirders.org. 1 April 2018. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
- ^ "Sandhill Cranes". birdtrail.outdoornebraska.gov. Archived from the original on 18 April 2023. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
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