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Sandhill Crane

Grus canadensis

Passes through Arkansas on migration. Found in 8 of 75 counties, across 3 habitats.

Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
8 of 75 counties
Habitats
3

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
On migration
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
8 of 75 counties
Habitats
3
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Arkansas 3

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 3

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.

Year-round

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Open Water (Fresh)

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

Year-roundOnly within 1,000 m of water.Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay
Other habitats in its models (31)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas. Those recorded in Arkansas first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (18)
  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Year-round.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Year-round.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Year-round.
  • Florida Dry Prairie Year-round, only within 1,000 m of water.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Year-round.
  • South Florida Bayhead Swamp Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Year-round.
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Year-round.
  • South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Year-round.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Year-round.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Land cover and other classes (13)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Year-round, only within 1,000 m of water.
  • Open Water (Brackish/Salt) Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Year-round.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune) Year-round.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 8 of 75 counties.

Food plants

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Plants matched by genus.

Native plants in these genera 100

Plant genera in its diet records (20)
  • Triticum Seeds and leaves. 11 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Zea Seeds. 11 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Cyperus Roots. 10 diet records. 25 native plants in Arkansas
  • Sorghum Seeds. 10 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Quercus Fruit. 6 diet records. 31 native plants in Arkansas
  • Medicago Leaves. 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Hordeum Seeds. 3 diet records. 1 native plant in Arkansas
  • Alophia 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Arkansas
  • Callisia 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Eleocharis Seeds. 2 diet records. 21 native plants in Arkansas
  • Equisetum 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Arkansas
  • Lupinus Seeds. 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Arkansas
  • Nymphaea 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Arkansas
  • Oryza Seeds. 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Oxalis 2 diet records. 3 native plants in Arkansas
  • Phleum Roots. 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Arkansas
  • Sagittaria 2 diet records. 8 native plants in Arkansas
  • Sparganium Seeds. 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Arkansas
  • Linum 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Arkansas
  • Melilotus Leaves. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Arkansas

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Arkansas, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 85

Plants 888

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Arkansas

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 102

Plants 17

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Arkansas

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Birds 60

Plants 143

All of ponds, lakes and their shores in Arkansas

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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