Game animal · Waterfowl
Sandhill Crane
Antigone canadensis
The sandhill crane (Antigone 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 (Antigone canadensis canadensis), with up to 450,000 of these birds migrating through annually.
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Nicknamed 'ribeye in the sky,' the sandhill is one of the oldest bird species alive, with fossils dating back millions of years and a bugling call to match.
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