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Sandhill Crane

Grus canadensis

Photo by DanAm
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Field Notes

Description:

A tall gray bird with a red forehead and white cheeks.

Habitat:

Open marsh or bogs, wet grasslands and meadows. Eats seeds bugs and small vertabrates.

Found year round in northern florida and migrates for breeding far up into Canada.

Notes:

The earliest these cranes will breed is after two years and up to as late as six years.

They can live to be about twenty years old in the wild.

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PublishedJune 14, 2013

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