scholarly journals What About the Sandhill Cranes?

Blue Jay ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saskatchewan Natural History Society
Keyword(s):  
Sandhill Cranes

Feeding Ecology of Sandhill Cranes during Spring Migration in Nebraska

1986 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth J. Reinecke ◽  
Gary L. Krapu
Keyword(s):  
Feeding Ecology ◽  
Spring Migration ◽  
Sandhill Cranes

Capture of Sandhill Cranes Using Alpha-chloralose: A 10-Year Follow-up

2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry K. Hartup ◽  
Lauren Schneider ◽  
J. Michael Engels ◽  
Matthew A. Hayes ◽  
Jeb A. Barzen
Keyword(s):  
Sandhill Cranes ◽  
Alpha Chloralose

Age of Sexual Maturity of Sandhill Cranes from Mid-Continental North America

1989 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Tacha ◽  
Donald E. Haley ◽  
Paul A. Vohs
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Sexual Maturity ◽  
Sandhill Cranes

Wing-molt patterns—a key to aging sandhill cranes

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 326-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Nesbitt ◽  
Stephen T. Schwikert
Keyword(s):  
Sandhill Cranes

scholarly journals Summer Flocks of Sandhill Cranes in Manitoba

Blue Jay ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Sandhill Cranes

Red-headed Love Child

2020 ◽  
pp. 46-53
Author(s):  
J. Drew Lanham
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Platte River ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Sandhill Cranes

This chapter shows how the author journeyed out to Nebraska in the last days of March to witness the tail end of one of the great ornithological wonders in North America: the northward migration of sandhill cranes along the Platte River. For probably 10,000 years or more, the tall, steel-gray birds have thrown their unmusically beautiful calls across the shallow floodplain that is now in the heart of America's corn and burger-producing breadbasket. In the air they were gracefully buoyant and powerful fliers. On the ground they were just as stately — walking, stalking, dancing, and prancing as crane-kind does. When one is surrounded by cranes it is easy to understand how the family of birds have generated awe and worship around the world.

Host–Parasite Behavioral Interactions in a Recently Introduced, Whooping Crane Population

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 220-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard S. King ◽  
Patrick C. McKann ◽  
Brian R. Gray ◽  
Michael S. Putnam
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Performance ◽  
Black Flies ◽  
Behavioral Differences ◽  
Whooping Crane ◽  
Black Fly ◽  
Grus Canadensis ◽  
Sandhill Crane ◽  
Conservation History ◽  
Whooping Cranes ◽  
Sandhill Cranes

Abstract The whooping crane Grus americana has a long conservation history, but despite multiple attempts across North America, introduction success is lacking. Recently introduced, captively reared whooping cranes have had periods of poor reproductive performance in central Wisconsin that sometimes coincided with black fly (Diptera: Simuliidae) emergences. Sandhill crane Grus canadensis reproductive performance in central Wisconsin is approximately double that of whooping cranes. We used comfort behaviors as a measure of black fly harassment to infer whether behavioral differences existed between nesting sandhill cranes and nesting whooping cranes and between successful and unsuccessful whooping crane pairs. To further explore the interaction between black flies and incubating whooping cranes, we examined differences in behaviors between incubating birds and their off-nest mates. Compared to their off-nest mates, incubating whooping cranes exhibited elevated comfort behaviors, suggesting a bird at a nest may experience greater harassment from black flies. Sandhill cranes had elevated head-flicks over whooping cranes. Whooping cranes exhibited more head-rubs than sandhill cranes, and successful whooping crane pairs had elevated head-rubs over pairs that deserted their nests. Behavioral differences between sandhill cranes and whooping cranes as well as differences in reproductive performance, could be explained by exposure to local breeding conditions. Whereas sandhill cranes have nested in the area for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, whooping cranes were only recently introduced to the area. Behavioral differences between the species as well as those between successful and unsuccessful whooping crane pairs could also be explained by the effect of captive exposure, which could affect all whooping crane introductions.

Dermatitis in Young Florida Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis pratensis) Due to Infestation by the Chigger, Blankaartia sinnamaryi

1997 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn G. Spalding ◽  
William J. Wrenn ◽  
Stephen T. Schwikert ◽  
James A. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Grus Canadensis ◽  
Sandhill Cranes
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