Bird
Sandhill Crane
Grus canadensis
A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in 7 of 64 parishes and 7 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 7 of 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 7

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 7 of 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 7
- Habitat models
- Year-round
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Louisiana 7
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.
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.
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Salt and brackish open water of sounds, bays and estuaries, with the mud and sand flats and seagrass beds that tides cover and uncover; the vegetated marsh is salt and brackish marshes.
Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.
Other habitats in its models (25)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Year-round.
- Unconsolidated Shore Year-round.
- Florida Dry Prairie Year-round, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Year-round, only within 1,000 m of water.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier 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 Pine 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 Clethra Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Year-round.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Year-round.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Year-round.
- South Florida Bayhead Swamp Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Year-round.
- South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Year-round.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Year-round.
- South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Year-round.
- Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Year-round, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Seasons in Louisiana
- Winter: does not nest here, in 7 of 64 parishes.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 165
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.
- Virginia Chain-fernAnchistea virginica
- TitiCyrilla racemiflora
- Virginia SweetspireItea virginica
- PondberryLindera melissifolia
- Shining FetterbushLyonia lucida
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- Scaleleaf False FoxgloveAgalinis aphylla
- Longleaf Three-awnAristida palustris
- Southern Waxy SedgeCarex glaucescens
- ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalis
- Coastal Sweet-pepperbushClethra alnifolia
- Slim SpikerushEleocharis elongata
- Peelbark St. John's-wortHypericum fasciculatum
- InkberryIlex glabra
- Bog SpicebushLindera subcoriacea
- SweetgumLiquidambar styraciflua
- Macranthera flammeaMacranthera flammea
- Sweetbay MagnoliaMagnolia virginiana
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Fragrant Water-lilyNymphaea odorata
- Swamp TupeloNyssa biflora
- White Arrow-arumPeltandra sagittifolia
- Slash PinePinus elliottii
- Pinus elliottii var. elliottiiPinus elliottii var. elliottii
Wildlife 280
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Louisiana. Not sighting records.
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Fulvous Whistling-duckDendrocygna bicolor
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- American CootFulica americana
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Greater White-fronted GooseAnser albifrons
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP year-round habitat model for Sandhill Crane Slow streams only. Leaves out developed land
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)











































