#1048 · 🐦 birds
Sandhill Crane
🇳🇱 Canadese Kraanvogel ·Antigone canadensis
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © darontansley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Edward Perry IV · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Lillie · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © JeffreyGammon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © John D Reynolds · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Ken Potter · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © elenaa99 · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
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.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 86,562 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Sandhill Crane
- Nederlands
- Canadese Kraanvogel
- scientific name
- Antigone canadensis
- class
- Aves
- order
- Gruiformes
- family
- Gruidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 37
- sightings worldwide
- 86,562
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Gruidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 508048, Wikidata Q28114133, GBIF 9036008, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.